Movies like A Tale of Lost Times
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
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Original name: Сказка о потерянном времени
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
Style:
fairy tale, sincere, captivating, sentimental, light
Plot:
spell, redemption, chase, evil sorcerer, obstacle, justice, hopes, transformation, adventure, youth, friendship, family relations, childhood
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and entertaining films with plots about adventure, family, friendship, youth, friends, family relations and magic mostly in Family, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Tale of Lost Times: The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963), After the Rain, on Thursday (1986), Stuart Little (1999), Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967), Lord, Give Me Patience (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking ...
Style:
fairy tale, colourful, stylized, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
twins, alternate reality, children, magic, magical, king, imagination, adventure, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, transformation, russian ...
Place:
russia
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, light, humorous
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
magic, good versus evil, adventure, heroes, friendship, greed, parents and children, teenager, prison, costume, dancer, singing ...
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62%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot:
mouse, adoption, cat, adventure, kidnapping, anthropomorphic mouse, orphan, friendship, mischievous children, fish out of water, orphanage, chase ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A fantasy story based on Kornei Chukovsky classics about a brave doctor Aybolit and his adventures on the land and on the sea.
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, captivating, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
doctor, veterinarian, bandit, surrealism, friendship, hopes, parents and children, adventure, dishonesty, chase
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.
Style:
sincere, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
parents and children, rivalry, family, youth, friendship, family relations, male female relationship, love, society, banker, romance, disorder ...
Time:
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52%
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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, fairy tale, sincere, captivating
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
young heroes, adventure, heroic mission, rescue, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, rivalry, youth, escapades, danger, hopes ...
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Imagine if you'd had a six-foot tall monster to help you through the rough times when you were 11! Willy is terrified about moving into the family's new house. He's convinced it's filled with evil space aliens out to get him. In ...
Style:
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Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
contemporary
Place:
canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching
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Plot:
family relations, friendship, adventure, heroes, youth, escapades, family, children, animal life, christmas, moose, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mysterious talking cat uses its powers of communication to enrich the lives of two different families, and bring them together.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
mischievous children, obsessive quest, adventurer, fish out of water, danger, rescue, escapades, young heroes, misfit, disorder, friendship, teaching the ways of the world ...
Place:
italy
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43%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Espen “Ash Lad”, a poor farmer’s son, embarks on a dangerous quest with his brothers to save the princess from a vile troll known as the Mountain King – in order to collect a reward and save his family’s farm from ruin.
Style:
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Audience:
family outing
Plot:
brother brother relationship, fantasy world, friendship, love and romance, family relations, good versus evil, troll, supernatural ability, obsessive quest, supernatural, chase, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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41%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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41%
Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, offbeat, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
redemption, family relations, going straight, gangsters, hopes, miraculous event, human spirit, unfulfillment, family, love and romance, supernatural, couples ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
Style:
light, fairy tale, sweet, feel good
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.
Style:
funny, fairy tale, light, feel good, entertaining
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After losing her daughter in an accident, Carmen loses all incentive to keep going, until she receives an unexpected letter from the adoption agency: her daughter was finally granted the Vietnamese girl she had asked for adoption and whose name is ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
contemporary
Place:
spain, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly -- with no life and no dog. ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, humorous, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Duration: 66 min.
Story:
It is Christmas Eve, and a clumsy elf accidentally shrinks down two cousins into miniature sizes! The kids are then scooped up into Santa's sack and dropped off across the street at their neighbour's house. In order to make it home for ...
Style:
light, feel good, exciting, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
As soon as Harvey S. Potter descends upon a drought-stricken farmland, he begins to grow a mysterious but beautiful crop of balloons. Mystified by the new resident's abilities, the people of the town are mesmerized by Potter, who immediately ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious
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38%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. ...
Style:
funny, fairy tale, light, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
ice hockey, fairy, disorder, hockey, curses spells and rituals, hockey player, fish out of water, imaginary, family, redemption, invisibility, shrinking ...
Time:
contemporary, 80s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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