Movies like Popeye

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Popeye (1980)
 5.4
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Popeye (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Style: humorous, absurd, semi serious, feel good, cult classic, entertaining, funny, retro, black comedy, thrilling ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, adult
Plot: sailor, abandoned baby, bully, childhood, rescue, twists and turns, kidnapping, family relations, love triangle, love and romance, escapades, eccentric family, missing person, danger, violence, baby, superhero, tax collector, cave, comic hero, batman, loneliness, water, octopus, profanity ...
Time: 80s
Place: fictional island
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Popeye

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about heroes, live action, escapades, danger, rescue, friendship and youth mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Popeye: The Cat in the Hat (2003), Toys (1992), Hook (1991), George of the Jungle (1997), Garfield: The Movie (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style: stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot: imaginary kingdom, cat, youth, friendship, disorder, talking cat, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, danger, child, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 34K
Toys (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Style: stylized, melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: toys, good versus evil, inheritance, childhood, family relations, anti war, sibling relationship, rivalry, parents and children, family life, innocence lost, business ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will ...
Style: surreal, feel good, entertaining, absurd, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: fantasy becomes reality, shark, fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, child protagonist, superhero, heroes, imaginary friend, imaginary, coming of age, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 272K
Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, father son relationship, rescue, peter pan, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, madagascar, california, new york, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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George of the Jungle (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of ...
Style: slapstick comedy, humorous, parody, slapstick, spoof ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, chick flick ...
Plot: jungle, fish out of water, childhood, tarzan, rescue, gorilla, goofy hero, elephant, heiress, friendship, monkey, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: san francisco, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 48 min.
Story: The television movie is set in the city of Dimmsdale and centers on the series' main protagonist Timmy Turner with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda and his fairy godbrother Poof. In the movie, Timmy is now 23 years old but is still in fifth ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, computer animated
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: godparent, coming of age, introspection, love and romance, young at heart, fall in love, parents and children, imaginary, magic realism, family relations, kidnapping, robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't ...
Style: feel good, not serious, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: cat, pets, talking animal, comic book, rescue, animal life, disorder, happy ending, animal shelter, comic hero, runaway, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since ...
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, feel good, hilarious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ancient egypt, desert, palace, magic, dog, cleopatra, superhero, julius caesar, silly humor, chase, good versus evil, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: egypt, africa, middle east, ancient greece, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
Style: light, grindhouse, funny, action packed, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: ninja, superhero, martial arts, time travel, ninja turtle, comic book, female warrior, childhood, samurai, vigilante, villain, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2016, 17th century, 1900s, year 1993 ...
Place: japan, new york, astoria oregon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Southern California kid named Calvin Fuller is magically transported to the medieval kingdom of Camelot through a crack in the ground caused by an earthquake. Once there, he learns he was summoned by the wizard Merlin, who needs Calvin to save ...
Style: arthurian, period piece, epic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, date night, family outing ...
Plot: time travel, medieval, arthurian legend, king arthur, youth, magic, technology, child, stupid kid, time loop, legend, coming of age ...
Time: 6th century, middle ages
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 125K
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 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: feel good, humorous, entertaining, slapstick, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, scooby doo, good versus evil, amusement park, talking animal, amateur detective, ghost, friendship, chase, heroes, youth, talking dog ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, year 2016, 21st century
Place: fictional island, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.8
 23K
Underdog (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, superhero, teenager, talking dog, single father, good versus evil, animal, genetics, justice, experiment, rescue, fighting crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
41%
Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's ...
Style: sweet, melancholic, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, dolphins, friendship, youth, animal, rescue, single parent, daring rescue, odd couple, mischievous children, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: year 1997
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Son of the Mask (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Style: humorous, light, slapstick, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: baby, mischievous children, superhero, transformation, rivalry, museum, party, mythology, supernatural ability, chaos and mayhem, split personality, pet dog ...
Time: 2000s
Place: pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 39K
Old Dogs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman ...
Style: humorous, feel good, melancholic, hilarious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: father son relationship, camp, fish out of water, family relations, childhood, best friend, competition, nothing goes right, bachelor, business partner, friendship between men, zoo ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: vermont, miami, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens
Plot: good versus evil, superhero, rescue, robot, superhuman powers, escapades, undercover, goofy hero, fighting crime, secret identity, imaginary, master villain ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tiny fairy, Tinker Bell, she travels with Peter to the magical world of Neverland. There, she ...
Style: fairy tale, funny, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: peter pan, eternal youth, fantasy world, fairy, island, pirate, magic, rescue, brother brother relationship, fight, pirate captain, brother ...
Place: london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style: humorous, surreal, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: children, espionage, child spy, mad scientist, fantasy world, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy, villain, animal, scientist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, cute, christmas classics, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, toys, holiday, dancing, broadway, toy soldier, dance, greed, magic, christmas spirit, wedding, kidnapping ...
Time: year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Princess Bride (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: revenge, true love, love and romance, sword fight, imaginary kingdom, swashbuckler, friendship, princess, pirate, prince, save the princess, medieval ...
Time: middle ages, 20th century, victorian era, year 1987, 15th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Babes in Toyland (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, christmas special, cute, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, child, christmas spirit, magical, christmas season, youth, rescue, danger, heroes, kidnapping, escapades ...
Time: 20th century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Little Monsters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style: light, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, fish out of water, wish come true, imaginary ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: large family, blended family, family relations, parenthood, mischievous children, wedding, parents and children, opposites attract, siblings relations, children, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they accidentally burned down. But ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, funny, detective ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: scooby doo, river, investigation, youth, amateur detective, resort, friends, dog, halloween, lake, teenager, summer vacation ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.1
 310K
Elf (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, father son relationship, santa claus, north pole, christmas season, corporate world, adoption, snow, winter, elf ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, south pole, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Red Riding Hood (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Teenage Claire (Morgan Thompson) would rather hang out with her friends at the mall than to stay home with her brother Matt while Grandma babysits. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, Grandma isn't about to let Claire out of the house. Worse, she ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: little red riding hood, missing person, fish out of water, love and romance, good versus evil, danger, adventurer, woman in danger, family relations, rescue, young heroes, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the ...
Style: light, exciting, humorous, sweet, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, date night, family outing, adult ...
Plot: muppets, childhood, island, swashbuckler, puppet, puppetry, youth, ship, water, treasure hunter, hunter, treasure hunt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his ...
Style: feel good, funny, mysterious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: muppets, sesame street, friendship, puppet, magical, rescue, puppetry, disorder, friends, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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