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Little Nicholas (2009)
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Little Nicholas (2009)
Original name: Le Petit Nicolas
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, sexy, art film, warmhearted, cute, hilarious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, children, friendship, school, family relations, plan gone awry, friends, parents and children, family life, school teacher, teacher student relationship, gangster, boy, child, teenager, lgbt teen, education, childhood, comic hero, child hero, adolescence, magic realism, boyhood, little boy, baby ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place: france, paris france, europe
Keyword: gangsters, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about youth, family relations, disorder, mischievous children, parents and children, friends and friendship mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Little Nicholas: Nicholas on Holiday (2014), War of the Buttons (2011), Nanny McPhee (2005), The Dandelions (2012), Matilda (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nicholas on Holiday (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Style: sentimental, humorous, realistic, light, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: mischievous children, youth, friendship, game, beach, seaside, escapades, summer, practical joke, superhero, childhood, cinema ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france
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War of the Buttons (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.
Style: realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: mischievous children, countryside, children, rivalry, friends, friendship, village, village life, betrayal, humiliation, uninhibited rivalry, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, france
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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 ⇓
100%
The Dandelions (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, best friend, parents and children, family life, friends, couples, couple relations, children, culture, female friendship, school teacher, school ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: family life, sibling rivalry, family relations, high school life, teenage life, social misfits, siblings relations, parents and children, friends, child, middle school, diary ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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100%
Passport to Paris (1999)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: twins, youth, impossible love, siblings relations, family relations, teenage girl, tourist, preteen, child, girl, slice of life, childhood ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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100%
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, childhood, kids and family, happy ending, neighbor, boy, nothing goes right, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Leave It to Beaver (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school ...
Style: melancholic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, epic
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: when the parents are away, childhood, family relations, happy ending, prank, parents and children, family life, american football, mischievous children, nothing goes right, friendship, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Flying Classroom (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: boys' choir, boys' school, friendship, fight, mischievous children, youth, boy, theatre play, disorder, teachers and students, children, prank ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Man of the House (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, ...
Style: touching, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: childhood, parents and children, mischievous children, single parent, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, kids and family, camping, opposites attract, male bonding, camp ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
War of the Buttons (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, world war two, mischievous children, jewish girl, village, fall in love, young heroes, coming of age, disorder, social relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1944
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, teachers and students, parents and children, friends, girl, child, kids and family, family life, troublemaker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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%
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, inspirational, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, journalism, children, coming of age, youth, school, teacher, family relations, life philosophy, follow your dream, family life, american girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1934
Place: ohio, cincinnati ohio, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Richie Rich: A Christmas Story (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a ...
Style: christmas classics, independent film, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, child, christmas spirit, alternate history, comic book, xmas, holiday, superhero, childhood, family relations, museum, parallel universe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Little Nicholas' Treasure (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: relocation, children, mother son relationship, friends, family life, child, husband wife relationship, lifestyle, satire, problem, family relations, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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100%
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Mr. Stink (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: This family comedy based on David Walliam's best-selling book tells the story of Chloe, who sees Mr. Stink every day, but has never spoken to him. Before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual friend hiding in her garden shed. As it turns out that ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, offbeat
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: friendship, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, youth, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, conservative, christmas, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
The Rainbow Tribe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Morgan Roberts, a middle aged adult in crisis, reunites with his best friend when he returns to the summer camp of his youth. His troubles seem to magnify when he is joined by a rag-tag group of 10 year old campers. Through their struggles they ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, youth, boy, puberty, camp counselor, friendship, life is a bitch, disorder, friends, mischievous children, terminal illness, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, biting ...
Plot: coming of age, children, unrequited love, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, prank, parents and children, eccentric family, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
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Plot: family relations, mischievous children, school, parents and children, youth, disorder, coming of age, children, uncontrollable, friends, power relations, teachers and students
Time: 21st century
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Ducoboo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mischievous children, elementary school, rebellion, friendship, dedicated educator, lifestyle, young heroes, disorder, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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30%
Babysitters Beware (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, when the parents are away, nanny, mischievous children, parents and children, disorder, youth, save the day, rivalry, friendship, little boy, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Sisters Kids in the Snow (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hele familien skal på skiferie i Norge, da far brækker benet. Derfor tager onkel Erik af sted med de fem ældste børn. På færgen møder Amalie skiinstruktøren Dan og onkel Erik bliver meget søsyg. Det viser sig far har lejet en meget lille ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: family relations, mischievous children, parents and children, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, youth, rivalry, siblings relations, hotel, snow, broken leg, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Kids Who Saved Summer (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of youngsters trying to save their playground from an unscrupulous developer who wants to build a factory there.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, disorder, friends, mischievous children, family life, factory, friendship, deception, heroes, activism, bicycle ...
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26%
The Devil's Kickers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his parents separate and he loses his place on the soccer team, Moritz must put together a new team against incredible odds.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, teen comedy
Audience: kids
Plot: soccer, friendship, child's point of view, family relations, mischievous children, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, parents and children, disorder, parents separation ...
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Billy and Buddy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Buddy is an abandoned young cocker spaniel waiting dejectedly in his cage for a kind, new owner to adopt him. Suddenly, Billy, a little boy whose hair is as red as Buddy's, appears. It's love at first sight and the beginning of a great ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, light
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, boy and dog, dog, parents and children, family relations, silly humor, disorder, pets, babies and infants, coming of age
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: somalia, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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