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, transformation, hopes, adventure, friendship, youth, family relations, childhood
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, light, feel good and fairy tale films with plots about adventure, family relations, family, friendship, magic, youth and friends 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), Meet The Santas (2005), Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967). 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:
alternate reality, twins, magical, magic, imaginary kingdom, children, adventure, imagination, king, 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, light, humorous, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
magic, good versus evil, adventure, parents and children, prison, friendship, greed, teenager, heroes, kidnapping, dancer, costume ...
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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, pre-teens, preschoolers, teens ...
Plot:
mouse, adoption, cat, adventure, kids and family, kidnapping, anthropomorphic mouse, orphan, friendship, talking animals, mischievous children, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. ...
Style:
sincere, feel good, fairy tale, sentimental, light
Plot:
santa claus, christmas, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, holiday, fight, christmas eve, friendship, kindness, christmas present, adventure ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, humorous, captivating
Audience:
preschoolers, family outing, kids
Plot:
doctor, bandit, veterinarian, surrealism, friendship, chase, dishonesty, hopes, adventure, parents and children
Place:
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48%
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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:
captivating, entertaining, feel good, sincere, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
love, rivalry, friendship, society, youth, banker, family relations, male female relationship, family, parents and children, happy ending, disorder ...
Time:
contemporary
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45%
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, captivating, sincere
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, adventure, heroic mission, good versus evil, rescue, imaginary kingdom, friendship, rivalry, escapades, hopes, daring rescue, youth ...
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42%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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:
fairy tale, touching, sweet, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, teens
Plot:
witch, mischievous children, nanny, curses spells and rituals, childhood, bully, family relations, magic, family, parents and children, family values, wizards and magicians ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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:
sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friends, buddies, youth, mischievous children, family relations, bear, friendship, adventure, supernatural, toy comes to life, family, parents and children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Terminally ill kings has trouble deciding which one his two, fundamentally different, sons should be his heir. It would be best if he would have more time to make his decicion but none of the treatments are working as expected. Finally a hunter ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, sincere
Plot:
ritual, father son relationship, ghost, gift, family relations, adventure, escapades, male female relationship, contests and competitions, love and romance, warrior, search and rescue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The little witch really wants to dance with the other witches in the Walpurgis night, but she is only 127 years old and thus far too young for it. She tries to secretly sneak into the party but is caught doing so, and as a punishment, she has to ...
Style:
fairy tale, light, colourful, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
witch, raven, child in peril, obsessive quest, magic, magical, wizards and magicians, female protagonist, spell, evil witch, redheaded woman, good versus evil ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, kids
Plot:
family relations, friendship, heroes, adventure, family, youth, escapades, animal life, christmas, children, friends, puppet ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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:
family relations, pets, disorder, parents and children, youth, talking cat, single parent, cat, supernatural, family, friends, redemption ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
fish out of water, obsessive quest, mischievous children, adventurer, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, disorder, young heroes, escapades, rescue, misfit ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, teens
Plot:
imaginary friend, friendship, magic, orphan, circus, family, bittersweet, friends, wizards and magicians, disorder, death in the family, fish out of water ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Family, 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:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
redemption, family relations, generosity, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, supernatural, going straight, family, hopes, gangsters, human spirit ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway, Czech Republic, Ireland
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:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
troll, brother brother relationship, friendship, love and romance, good versus evil, family relations, fantasy world, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chase, adventure, obsessive quest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of ...
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fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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36%
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:
light, feel good, fairy tale, funny, entertaining
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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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 ...
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Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When two boys on their BMX bikes and their Speedway racing Dad, come up against a notorious crime boss and his criminal gang who have stolen a hoard of Diamonds from England’s Largest Castle, a chain of events is set off that will change their ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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, sweet, fairy tale, feel good
Plot:
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36%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, not serious, humorous, exciting, parody
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Everything goes for the best in Fanny's life without stories ... until she discovers that her beloved son, Arthur, nine, is the scapegoat of three boys at his school. Fanny will not leave her son alone in front of these little executioners: she ...
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captivating, light, humorous, sincere, funny ...
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family outing
Plot:
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Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! ...
Style:
light, funny, emotional, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Story:
Raven Baxter checks into the Tipton Hotel while on a business trip with her boss; Zack and Cody try to seduce the models for Raven's photoshoot, Maddie tries to get London to wear one of Raven's dresses, and pop star Hannah Montana wants a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the ordinary and bustling city of Moscow there is an unusual House, overgrown with hundreds of secrets and mysteries. In this house there is a strange apartment, in which not a single tenant has stayed for a long time. And only when an ...
Style:
captivating, enigmatic, fairy tale, disturbing, atmospheric
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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