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Moondance Alexander (2007)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential. Moondance manages to talk Dante into training her and Checkers for the Bow Valley Classic and despite the criticism of her peers; discovers that perseverance, loyalty and individuality can land you in the winner's circle.
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, sincere
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, hopes, friendship, human spirit, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, obsessive quest, young heroes, youth, athlete and trainer, teenage life, contests and competitions, eccentric family, mountain, training, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, stallion, woman riding a horse, friends, misfit, teachers and students ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
colorado
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and feel good films with plots about horse, girl horse relationship, family relations, horse riding, youth, woman riding a horse and hopes mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Moondance Alexander: Emma's Chance (2016), Sylvester (1985), All Roads Lead Home (2008), Summer of the Colt (1989), Gotta Kick It Up! (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While fulfilling her community service hours at a horse rescue ranch, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused show horse who won't let anyone ride him.
Style:
touching, sincere, sweet, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
horse, teenage girl, horse ranch, girl horse relationship, community service, friendship, teenage protagonist, rehabilitation, human spirit, bonding, animal rescue, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Style:
fairy tale, uplifting, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, horse, horse riding, equestrian, attempted rape, wild west, strong female lead, horse race, stallion, racehorse, woman riding a horse, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, kentucky, austin texas
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, touching ...
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family outing
Plot:
horse, farm, horse ranch, animal, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, dog, ranch, girl horse relationship, animal lover ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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100%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, animal life, farm, friends, coming of age, hopes ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. Bartlett, agrees to be the coach. Now the girls need to prove that they are ready to compete and ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, teen, uplifting
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, against the odds, dancer's life, school, working class, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, follow your dream, ambition, teenage girl, preteen ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, uplifting, touching, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, stallion, horse ranch, horse race, freedom, teenage girl, friendship, self discovery, hopes ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, youth, disobey, self discovery, horse ranch, talent, teenage girl, stallion, black horse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
Style:
serious, independent film, realistic, touching
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, physical disability, disability, woman riding a horse, olympics, second chance, coming of age, human spirit, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, teenage love, youth, friends, save the day, contests and competitions, teenage life, money raising, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, father figure ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse trainer, jockey, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, teenage love, self discovery, human spirit, teenage life, against the odds, bullying, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style:
sex comedy, romantic, romantic drama, existential, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, animal, medicine, marriage proposal, boy horse relationship, orphan, great depression, woman riding a horse, coming of age, world war one, age difference ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, virginia, atlantic city new jersey, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just as free-spirited and ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
horse, horse ranch, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, wild horse, ranch, horse riding, teenager, coming of age, countryside, farm, animal life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The Saddle Club is a children's television series based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant and is an Australia/Canada co-production. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, sincere, educational
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, haunted by the past, underdog, against the odds, fall in love, parents and children, obsession, club, middle school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, adult
Plot:
follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, contests and competitions, rehabilitation, youth, athlete and trainer, hopes, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, family life ...
Place:
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Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, starting over, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, single parent, friendship, parents and children, animal life, farm, contests and competitions, rehabilitation ...
Time:
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Place:
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36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style:
realistic, feel good, serious, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rodeo, youth, hopes, direction and purpose, friendship, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, cowgirl, search for father, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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139
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, horse riding, equestrian, woman riding a horse, teenage life, friendship, animal life, friends, young at heart, family relations, youth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daugther, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, animal, horse riding, campaign, family relations, animal life, family life, wish come true, parents and children, workplace situations, contests and competitions, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, stallion, teenage life, rivalry, parents and children, love and romance, training, strong female character, horse trainer, woman riding a horse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, black horse, desert, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, stallion, world war two, survival, rescue, young heroes ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, stallion, woman riding a horse, religion, father daughter relationship, friendship, disability, starting over, optimism, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot:
horse, starting over, teenage life, parents and children, youth, hopes, family problems, juvenile delinquency, workplace, family life, family business, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, starting over, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete's life, parents and children, ambition, youth, farm, rivalry, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
horse, redemption, rider horse relationship, rehabilitation, prison, against the odds, follow your dream, parents and children, rivalry, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, farm, family relations, youth, friends, life turned upside down, coming of age, orphan, girl horse relationship, self discovery, friendship, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a ...
Style:
teen, talky, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, animal, hopes, horse ranch, family relations, self discovery, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, wyoming
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When troubled, cynical teen Rick chooses service at a camp for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life. Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
horse, boy horse relationship, youth, girl horse relationship, family relations, animal abuse, animal, disability, ambition, contests and competitions, redemption, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a stolen white stallion escapes his captors, young Stephanie Ward gives him a new home and a new name: Lightning. As she grooms the horse for show-jumping competition, the pair forms an unbreakable bond. But when Stephanie finds herself in need ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, tension ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
horse, equestrian, horse riding, bonding, heartwarming, family drama, children, competition, rescue, gambling, escape, small town ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, honest, life philosophy, redemption, animal, hopes, horse riding, animal training, children, secrets ...
Time:
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Place:
kentucky, usa
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