Movies like Paws
If you like "Paws" you are looking for humorous, exciting and feel good movies about / with talking dog, teenage life, adventure, best friends, youth, riddles and clues and friendship themes of Adventure, Family and Fantasy genre shot in Australia or UK.
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Paws (1997)
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dollars from falling into the wrong hands.
Style:
humorous, exciting, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
talking dog, teenage life, adventure, best friends, youth, riddles and clues, friendship, family, heroes, friends, family relations, computers and web, chase, frame up, danger, animal life, fortune, computer expert, dog, blonde, computer, villain, night, child protagonist, stepfather stepdaughter relationship ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Most similar movies to Paws
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and exciting films with plots about family, adventure, youth, heroes, friends, danger and family relations mostly in Family, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Paws: The Water Horse (2007), Napoleon (1995), Joey (1997), Kids World (2001), Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Style:
emotional, entertaining, scenic, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
young heroes, sea monster, adventure, friendship, child protagonist, rescue from drowning, egg, underwater, world war two, boat accident, kids and family, adaptation ...
Time:
1940s, 40s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
golden retriever, dog, balloon, pets, odd couple, survival, fish out of water, family, teaching the ways of the world, getting home, misfit, disorder ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia, cross country
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
476
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
kangaroo, youth, danger, young heroes, family, heroes, mischievous children, babies and infants, adventure, orphan, rescue, kidnapping ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
friends, boy, part animation, miniaturization, rescue, orphan, disorder, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, family, mischievous children, family relations ...
Place:
australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, suspense
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
friends, rescue, orphan, coming of age, mischievous children, imaginary kingdom, adventure, young heroes, parents and children, heroes, imaginary, wish come true ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
Style:
feel good, offbeat, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
teleportation, kidnapping, teenager, puppet, animal, train, dinosaur, teen angst, youth, danger, teenage life, animal life ...
Time:
stone age, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
Style:
exciting, surreal, offbeat, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
heroic mission, heroes, save the day, chases and races, family, adventure, chase, friendship, escapades, young heroes, friends, youth ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Puppy Paws (the fun-loving son of Santa Paws) gets bored, he finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. When the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt however, and ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, fairy tale, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
save the day, pets, hopes, holiday, christmas, dog, santa claus, christmas movie, owner dog relationship, christmas present, adventure, best friends ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style:
offbeat, feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
single parent, misfit, teenage life, animal life, family life, disorder, friends, family relations, adventure, escapades, family, heroes ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
swamp, heroes, young heroes, escapades, confined, youth, danger, best friends, partners, rescue, adventure, family ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anything is possible when the Professor tells Tim about a supernova that grants wishes. Unfortunately, when Tim's wish doesn't go as planned, he finds himself in a dog's body!
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
family, getting home, heroes, escapades, daring rescue, mischievous children, adventure, wish come true, wizards and magicians, family relations, friends, pirate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
hopes, escapades, imaginary, heroic mission, imaginary kingdom, love and romance, state affairs, adventure, family, heroes, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
amateur detective, friendship, adventure, resort, teenage life, ghost, monster, youth, crimes, partners against crime, gang, danger ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, basketball movie
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary, family, family life, child as adult, disorder, teenage life, friendship, adventure, legends and myths, youth, battles, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, rescue, odd couple, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, friends, heroes, disorder, pets, family life, small town life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, mine
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Movies similar to Stuart Little
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The whole family will enjoy huge laughs and giant, hairy adventures with this touching tale about a big-hearted Bigfoot. Lost in the forest, he befriends three kids, Percy, Madison and Leonard, who are determined to protect him. When two local ...
Style:
feel good, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family, young heroes, save the day, fish out of water, school, friendship, disorder, animal life, rescue, danger, youth, adventure ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, epic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
superhuman powers, young heroes, legends and myths, adventure, danger, best friends, parents and children, escapades, save the day, good versus evil, teenage life, monster ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
280
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Austria, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
yeti, youth, friendship, parents and children, family, escapades, adventure, young heroes, friends, family relations, imaginary, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
himalaya, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Seven-year-old Johannes Blom gets blown away when he discovers a little man in the kitchen cupboard, hidden behind the peanut butter jar. He’s even more astonished when he realizes that this little man, ‘Wiplala’, has magical powers. When ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
family, adventure, supernatural ability, escapades, supernatural, family relations, youth, fish out of water, disorder, pizza, father daughter relationship, boy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
vacation, lake, children, family, parents and children, young heroes, escapades, legends and myths, family relations, lake or river, heroes, adventure ...
Place:
british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, youth, danger, escapades, daring rescue, imaginary kingdom, heroes, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, adventure, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, offbeat, feel good, gothic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
fairy, wish fulfillment, mischievous children, heroes, wish come true, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, misfit, family relations, supernatural, rivalry, good versus evil ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Aussie, a lovable Australian mutt, embarks on a mission to return his young owner's missing Teddy Bear.
Style:
semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, friendship, teddy bear, family relations, friends, youth, best friends, danger, pets, animal life, disorder, family life ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An update of the Lassie legend stars Thomas Guiry as a troubled city kid whose family retreats to the country, where he befriends the famous collie and changes for the better. Conflict develops when a ruthless sheep rancher causes trouble for ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, coming of age, family, friendship, animal life, countryside, teenage life, pets, family life, mischievous children, father son relationship, boy dog relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style:
exciting, twists and turns, touching, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
good versus evil, witch, wizards and magicians, chosen one, supernatural ability, friendship, magical, fantasy world, school, adventure, best friends, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 1990s, year 1992, year 1991
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Movies like 101 Dalmatians
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, and all the rest of the Buddies are back, but this time, they're setting their sights even higher -- as in, the moon! With the help of their new pals Spudnick (voiced by Jason Earles) and Gravity, these pooches are ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
moon, dog, danger, youth, best friends, rescue, survival, young heroes, getting home, heroic mission, adventure, space travel ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
survival, captivity, friendship, rivalry, family relations, friends, danger, parents and children, daring rescue, dealing with death, family, dangerous animal ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
kidnapping, car chase, family, adventure, chase, magic, good versus evil, youth, danger, orphan, rescue, friendship ...
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Here’s the delightful tale of teamwork and adventure your whole family will love! Air Bud is the proud father of five adorable puppies - the hip-hopping B-Dawg, lovely Rosebud, mellow Buddha, dirt-loving Mudbud, and the big fella Budderball - with ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, preschoolers, kids, family outing
Plot:
puppy, pets, family, animal life, teenage life, buddies, disorder, partners, friends, survival, danger, rescue ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi Långstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in ...
Style:
exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
children, imaginary, mischievous children, superhuman powers, family, best friends, danger, youth, disorder, family life, ship, adventure ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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