Movies and TV shows like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1968

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1968)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1968)
Original name: Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Romania, France, West Germany
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Style: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, coming of age, ship, homeless, stolen money, heroes, friendship, youth, friends, misfit, rebellion, chases and races, escapades, mischievous children, siblings relations, buddies, small town life, young heroes, step siblings, young at heart, murder, drifter, best friend, sheriff, river ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia, mississippi river, saint petersburg

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, semi serious and humorous films and TV series with plots about friendship, youth, friends, young heroes, escapades, family relations and heroes mostly in Adventure, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom Sawyer (2011), Zeke and Luther (2009), Gentlemen, Boys (1976), Tom Sawyer (1973), Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tom Sawyer (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Romania
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer (LOUIS HOFMANN) has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn (LEON SEIDEL) - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly (HEIKE MAKATSCH) with Tom and his ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: child's point of view, buddies, adventurer, young heroes, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, prank, false accusation, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, murder witness, young love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: missouri, america, st. petersburg russia, mississippi
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Zeke and Luther (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Zeke and Luther is an American Disney XD animated sitcom about two best friends setting their sights on becoming the world's greatest skateboarders. The show stars Hutch Dano, Adam Hicks, Daniel Curtis Lee and Ryan Newman. Zeke and Luther is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, fast
Audience: kids
Plot: ambition, contests and competitions, youth, follow your dream, teenage life, family relations, desire for fame, friendship, rivalry, mischievous children, best friend, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a Japanese anime series, directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was aired in 1980. It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. The series was broadcast on the World ...
Style: anime, juvenile, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, friends, young at heart, coming of age, heroes, chases and races, young heroes, buddies, mischievous children, rebellion, misfit, youth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min.
Story: The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, youth, buddies, mischievous children, friends, on the lam, fishing, funeral, boy, buried treasure, skinny dipping, murder trial ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, usa, mississippi
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Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a 1979 television series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American writer Mark Twain. The series ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: small town, best friend, hopes, coming of age, society, buddies, youth, mischievous children, young lovers, heroes, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Gentlemen, Boys (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Funny family comedy based on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friends, young at heart, buddies, chases and races, young lovers, coming of age, mischievous children, youth, escapades, young heroes, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, czech republic, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Style: epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: friendship, coming of age, river, youth, adventurer, treasure hunt, young heroes, mischievous children, childhood, supernatural, nature, kingdom ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia
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31%
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - Tom's friend from the streets - witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about the incident. However, when the good-natured ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, friendship between boys, coming of age, first love, adventurer, childhood, disorder, small town, escapades, mischievous children, orphan ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, mississippi
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30%
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Flipper (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of ...
Style: realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: sea, single father, dolphins, youth, family relations, park ranger, save the day, escapades, young heroes, friendship, danger, animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, florida, everglades
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28%
Road to Avonlea (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: family life, small town, heroine, uncle niece relationship, teacher, parents and children, friends, couple relations, countryside, friendship, mischievous children, school ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Life is anything but normal for Gortimer and his two best friends, Ranger and Mel, as they navigate Normal Street - an ordinary suburb that has a hint of something magical just beneath the surface.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, friendship, best friend, supernatural, coming of age, escapades, friends, friend, magic, group of friends, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Spooksville (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Spooksville is an action/adventure live action TV series that aired on The Hub beginning October 26, 2013. The show was produced by Jane Startz, who also produced Tuck Everlasting and Ella Enchanted and was written for TV by James Krieg. The show ...
Style: exciting, captivating, light, tense, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, small town, supernatural, youth, danger, friendship, parallel world, save the day, rivalry, escapades, high school, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Dinosapien (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films. Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, young heroes, parents and children, escapades, family relations, friendship, youth, danger, imaginary, dangerous animal, friends, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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25%
Percy, Buffalo Bill and I (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ulf think this is going to be an ordinary summer. Going to his grand parents and swim in the lake and tease his brother. But that's not the case, because this summer he will fall in love with Pia.
Style: sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, fall in love, best friend, family life, youth, escapades, family relations, summer vacation, love, boy, swimming, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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24%
K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Kassie and her friends stumble across an old, broken pocket watch they begin an unexpected journey to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold. They'll have to solve riddles and follow clues to find the lost treasure. With the help ...
Style: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: treasure hunt, best friend, escapades, pets, youth, young heroes, journey, dog, friendship, rivalry, german shepherd, police dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Oliver Twist (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: orphan, youth, charles dickens, control, children, friends, injustice, danger, young heroes, gang, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Flying Liftboy (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: coming of age, elevator, world spanning, young heroes, escapades, danger, state affairs, youth, misfit, imaginary, heroes, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, latin america, europe, new york, usa
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23%
Pippi Longstocking (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Pippi Longstocking is a TV series based on Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking children's books. The show ran for thirteen episodes, the first episode being broadcast 8 February 1969 on the then Swedish public service channel Sveriges ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, vintage
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: monkey, youth, nordic, smart kid, magic, ape, friendship, redhead girl, strong female character, strong female lead, children, best friend ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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Swords: Life on the Line (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: For the fisherman of New England, braving the frigid, unpredictable waters of the North Atlantic is a tradition that has been in their families for generations. It is an unforgiving environment, where forty-five-foot vessels contend with fifty-foot ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough
Plot: workplace situations, forces of nature, danger, working class, chases and races, boss and employee, escapades, ship, workplace, ocean
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
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22%
The Crocodiles (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: children, street gang, friendship, suburban life, heroes, suburbs, teenage life, youth, witnessing a crime, amateur detective, best friend, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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22%
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: island, youth, starting over, young heroes, tragic love, friendship, escapades, orphan, heroes, social misfits, adoption, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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21%
Finding Friends (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, friendship, pets, teenage life, fish out of water, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time: 21st century
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21%
Call of the Wild (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: family holiday, human animal relationship, small town, young heroes, friendship, contests and competitions, chases and races, friends, rivalry, grandfather granddaughter relationship, dog, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Beethoven's 5th (2003)
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: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Scout's Safari (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, South Africa
TV show
Story: Scout's Safari is a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Kids Channel and Saturday mornings on NBC. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: friendship, family relations, animal life, youth, culture clash, teenage life, society, wilderness, photojournalist, resort, high school, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, which starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer. The series ...
Style: serious, sentimental, atmospheric
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: horse, racehorse, gambling, horse race, horse trainer, corruption, jockey, bittersweet, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, against the odds, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: parents and children, farm, family life, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, youth, husband wife relationship, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: minnesota, kansas
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20%
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Boston proper meets the Wild West as Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, and Karl Malden star in a fish-out-of-water comedy for everyone! To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold ...
Style: funny, semi serious, humorous, feel good, spoof
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, prizefight, gold rush, old west, stowaway, partner, silly humor, treasure hunt, mischievous children, pets, escapades, adventurer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967, 1840s
Place: san francisco, boston, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Centennial (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 1256 min.
TV show
Story: The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s.
Style: atmospheric, epic, historical drama, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: wild west, native, 007, civil war, family in danger, wilderness, immigrant, unrequited love, rocky mountains, family relations, battles, revolution ...
Time: 70s, 18th century, 19th century, 1820s, 1830s ...
Place: usa, colorado, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
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20%
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