Movies like Mary Poppins

If you like "Mary Poppins" you are looking for feel good, touching and uplifting movies about / with magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite and child themes of Comedy, Family and Fantasy genre shot in USA.
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Mary Poppins (1964)
 7.8
 185K
Mary Poppins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale, colorful, humorous, romantic, entertaining, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, toddlers, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children, boy, maid, brother sister relationship, levitation, heartwarming, dance, happy ending, family values, bird, horse race, fox, bank, girl ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s, 1930s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar, britain, east end london
Keyword: oldies, preschoolers, challenge, eye candy

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Most similar movies to Mary Poppins

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about disorder, family relations, youth, childhood, dancing, magic and live action mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Mary Poppins: The Sound of Music (1965), Nanny McPhee (2005), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Annie (1982), Paddington (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
96%
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Australia, Canada, India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she ...
Style: light, atmospheric, sincere, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: magic, nanny, flying, female protagonist, levitation, imagination, anthropomorphic animal, family relations, love, housekeeper, drawing, fatherhood ...
Time: 1930s, future
Place: big ben london, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.6
 85K
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: witch, magic, childhood, nanny, family values, children, single father, mischievous children, parents and children, widower, prank, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2005, year 2006, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
Style: light, sweet, cute, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: flying car, inventor, car, childhood, fantasy world, racing, kids and family, heartwarming, fictional country, youth, zeppelin, children ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 6.6
 49K
Annie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time: year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 132K
Paddington (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: kids and family, bear, children, animal, adoption, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, goofy hero, childhood, animal life, heartwarming, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Simple Wish (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, funny, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: magic, good versus evil, fairy godmother, magic wand, witch, imaginary, rivalry, supernatural ability, down on your luck, mischievous children, supernatural, parents and children ...
Time: year 1997
Place: nebraska, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 17K
The Love Bug (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Herbie is a car - but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various close escapes in between. Three further Herbie movies were to follow.
Style: humorous, sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: car, auto racing, racing, car race, hippie, race, auto mechanic, chase, happy ending, rivalry, car trouble, adaptation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
 101K
My Fair Lady (1964)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style: feel good, romantic, period piece, costume drama, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot: high society, cinderella story, class differences, love story, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, culture clash, broadway, makeover ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, stylized, offbeat, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: childhood, chocolate, children, fantasy world, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, factory, imagination, poverty ...
Time: year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: bavaria, denver colorado, colorado, japan, new delhi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, scenic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: magic, nanny, witch, children, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, world war two, farm, wartime life, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.8
 80K
Peter Pan (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place: fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good ...
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, ghost, gambling, witch, college, afterlife, magic, betrayal, superhero, male female relationship, fish out of water, supernatural ...
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 3K
Summer Magic (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: widow, family relations, mysterious character, young lovers, starting over, love and romance, parents and children, family life, youth, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: maine, usa, europe, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 24K
The Borrowers (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, youth, rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 13K
Scrooge (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
Style: christmas horror, christmas classics, hilarious, christmas special, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, dancing, broadway, xmas, redemption, charles dickens, destiny, christmas season ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her father--especially since the nice young ...
Style: humorous, retro, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: millionaire, dancing, new year, winter, car, family relations, redheaded woman, immigrant, estate, power relations, school, martial arts ...
Time: year 1967, 1910s, 20th century, year 1916, year 1917
Place: philadelphia, usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, feel good, sweet, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: mermaid, princess, disney princess, good versus evil, transformation, father daughter relationship, love, underwater, witch, happy ending, prince, first love ...
Time: 1800s, year 1989, 20th century, 1830s, 19th century
Place: madagascar, denmark, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and ...
Style: cute, light, sweet, light hearted, retro ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: animal, sailing, youth, dancing, animal lover, broadway, bomb squad, literary, myth, sea, carnival, camel ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, year 1967, 1840s, victorian era
Place: africa, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.0
 49K
Tooth Fairy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, surreal, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: fairy, hockey, curses spells and rituals, transformation, fish out of water, ice hockey, imaginary, dream, fantasy world, teenager, wrestler, magic ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, fairy tale, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: magic, miraculous event, objects come to life, friendship, coming of age, accountant, mysterious character, prodigy, fish out of water, curses spells and rituals, save the day, goofy hero ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 8K
Madeline (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington ...
Style: touching, melancholic, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: children, kidnapping, orphan, rescue, school, girl, chase, coming of age, childhood, mischievous children, friendship, amateur detective ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 50s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 133K
Babe (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, motivational, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, piglet, pig, farm, friendship, farmer, animal, talking animal, christmas, horse, adoption, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: australia, england, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: santa claus, christmas, holiday, reindeer, christmas season, xmas, prank, christmas party, christmas eve, children, winter, mistaken identity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style: funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: christmas, ghost, holiday, muppets, childhood, puppetry, scrooge, christmas carol, greed, time travel, christmas season, puppet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1992, 1800s, 90s, 1840s ...
Place: england, london, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, South Korea, Denmark, Canada, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Style: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, period piece ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: beauty and the beast, happy ending, beast, love story, magic, opposites attract, true love, prince, fantasy world, heroine, beautiful scenery, castle ...
Time: 18th century, year 2017, 2010s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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