Movies like A Tale of Lost Times

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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
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
Audience: kids
Plot: spell, redemption, chase, evil sorcerer, obstacle, justice, transformation, hopes, friendship, youth, family relations, childhood, evil, soviet, adventure
Place: ussr, soviet union
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, feel good and light films with plots about family relations, youth, friendship, parents and children, friends, hopes and magic mostly in Family, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Tale of Lost Times: The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963), The House Elf (2019), Stuart Little (1999), After the Rain, on Thursday (1986), Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963)
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, stylized, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: magical, magic, children, imaginary kingdom, imagination, alternate reality, good versus evil, transformation, save the kingdom, getting home, art, surrealism ...
Place: ussr, russia
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The House Elf (2019)
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: fairy tale, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing, atmospheric
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: house, supernatural being, magic, black magic, single mother, wizards and magicians, cat, hidden treasure, evil sorcerer, evil wizard, good versus evil, magical power ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
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Stuart Little (1999)
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: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, adoption, cat, kids and family, childhood, chase, orphanage, talking animal, anthropomorphic mouse, redemption, creativity, storytelling ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
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, captivating, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, friendship, teenager, parents and children, prison, heroes, greed, dancer, kidnapping, brother, evil ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Oh How It Hurts 66 (1967)
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, captivating, entertaining, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: doctor, veterinarian, bandit, friendship, chase, parents and children, hopes, dishonesty, surrealism, soviet
Place: africa, soviet union
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46%
A Halloween Puppy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: human becomes animal, halloween, dog, magic, best friend, youth, curses spells and rituals, family relations, friendship, stupid kid, danger, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Meet The Santas (2005)
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: fairy tale, sentimental, light, feel good, sincere
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, family relations, parents and children, kids and family, couple relations, love and romance, christmas eve, fight, magic, self discovery ...
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42%
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Logan (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teen does everything he can to finish his younger brother's project when tragedy strikes.
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, human spirit, teenage life, follow your dream, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, hopes, bittersweet, brother brother relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Lord, Give Me Patience (2017)
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: feel good, light, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: male female relationship, family relations, parents and children, youth, banker, love, rivalry, friendship, society, hopes, lifestyle, happy ending ...
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41%
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Gooby (2009)
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, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, buddies, friends, psychosis, family relations, mischievous children, bear, friendship, imaginary friend, supernatural, parents and children, teachers and students ...
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
Style: fairy tale
Audience: kids
Plot: mythology, conspiracy, marriage, prince, letter, transformation, sister sister relationship, jealousy, false accusation, intrigue, merchant, mosquito ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Book of Masters (2009)
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: fairy tale, touching, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: magic, evil wizard, wizards and magicians, friendship, evil witch, evil sorcerer, showdown, good versus evil, sorceress, wizard, magician, black magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio (2002)
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: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: lie, pinocchio, puppet, fish out of water, mischievous children, obsessive quest, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, friendship, danger, misfit, escapades ...
Time: year 2002
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Snow Queen (2005)
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, sincere, captivating, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Bogus (1996)
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, slang, fairy tale, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: imaginary friend, childhood, magic, friendship, youth, bittersweet, imagination, afterlife, slice of life, heartwarming, circus, coming of age ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new jersey, las vegas, atlantic city new jersey
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40%
Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds ...
Style: fairy tale, folk tale, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: mythology, daughter, replacement, metamorphosis, czar, puzzle, gluttony, witch, transformation, love, princess, prince ...
Time: medieval times
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Secret of the Magic Gourd follows the wondrous adventures of a young schoolboy named Wang Bao. When Wang Bao discovers a magical gourd that can instantly grant his every wish, the awkward child suddenly becomes a hero amongst his curious ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: magical object, friends, hopes, family relations, desire, youth, friendship, escapades, rivalry, little boy, young heroes, family life ...
Place: asia, china
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40%
Finn on the Fly (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: FINN ON THE FLY is a madcap comedy filled with wild chases, mistaken identity and young romance.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, offbeat
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: mad scientist, experiment gone awry, friendship, mischievous children, family relations, disorder, misfit, pets, getting home, escapades, science runs amok, boy and dog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Cinderella (2011)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Although mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, romantic, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cinderella story, fairy, cinderella, transformation, fall in love, kindness, prince, magic, happy ending, imaginary kingdom, supernatural, chores ...
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39%
When Santa Fell to Earth (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Christmas is just two weeks away, it is pouring with rain, and Ben is struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Suddenly, Bens life takes a turn for the better when Santa Niklas Goodfellow and his Christmas caravan come crashing down to Earth in ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, sentimental ...
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Plot: christmas, good versus evil, family relations, family life, imaginary, disorder, hopes, youth, young heroes, on the run, wish come true, coming of age ...
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Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In order to save some kids who are about to die in a fire, Bibi, the daughter of a prestigious witch, manages to trigger a heavy rain with her powers. The head of all witches gives her an award called "Crystal Ball", reserved for older ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: witch, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, magic, youth, parents and children, children, eternal youth, imaginary, coming of age, small town, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Mo (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, family problems, disability, optimism, hopes, society, social misfits, parents and children, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
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, captivating, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: single parent, cat, family relations, pets, disorder, parents and children, talking animal, youth, supernatural, stupid kid, brother sister relationship, animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Tommy and the Cool Mule (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: starting over, family relations, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, farm, ambition, grownups, love, friendship, youth, bank ...
Time: 21st century
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38%
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes (2020)
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
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, supernatural, childhood, magic, children, supernatural ability, friendship between teens, child, fairy, friends, witch, good versus evil ...
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38%
Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Style: political, spiritual, educational
Audience: kids
Plot: boy, children, female nudity, spirituality, modernism, summer, youth, bare butt, nudity, girl, family relations, summer vacation ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
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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 ⇓
38%
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Mad Mom (2018)
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 ...
Style: captivating, light, funny, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Eep! (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Iep! is about Viegeltje, who looks like a girl but has wings in stead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine decide to keep Viegeltje and to raise her like an ordinary girl. But Viegeltje ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, sincere, uplifting, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, friendship, eccentric family, family relations, physical appearance, mischievous children, youth, disorder, adoption, misfit, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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