Movies like Speed Racer 2008
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Speed Racer (2008)
75K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Speed Racer is the tale of a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, he must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities. Inspired by the cartoon series.
Style:
stylized, exciting, entertaining, futuristic, light, intense, semi serious, psychological, humorous, colourful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
race, car chase, car, chase, childhood, family relations, ambition, contests and competitions, obstacle, driver, conspiracy, rivalry, family problems, supportive parent, dishonesty, auto racing, superhero, hotshot hero, speed, car race, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, martial arts, monkey ...
Time:
future, 21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Speed Racer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, entertaining, feel good and semi serious films with plots about rivalry, destiny, first contact, catastrophe, dialogue, fight scenes and mentor mostly in Action, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Speed Racer: Spy Kids (2001), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Real Steel (2011), Thunderbirds (2004), Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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121K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of ...
Style:
exciting, intense, colourful, light, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
young heroes, spy, children, mad scientist, secret agents, robot, heroic mission, fantasy world, chase, espionage, good versus evil, fight scenes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, save the world, plumber, transformation, brothers, fantasy world, rescue, good versus evil, heroes, heroic mission, escapades ...
Time:
future, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
337K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Style:
futuristic, feel good, exciting, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
boxing, robot, father son relationship, sport, underdog, androids and robots, technology, against the odds, contests and competitions, arena, parents and children, fight ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa, austin texas, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
space, good versus evil, space travel, youth, rescue, teenage hero, island, justice, chase, save the day, family in danger, young heroes ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, tower bridge london, san francisco, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Style:
humorous, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
video game, spy, virtual reality, child spy, mad scientist, secret agents, rescue, brutality, technology, mission, espionage, escapades ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Style:
humorous, talky, exciting, light, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
soldier, toy comes to life, technology gone awry, childhood, small town, children, heroes, suburbs, good versus evil, store, superhero, satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, life turned upside down, space, genetics, save the lady, space and aliens, destiny, space travel, space wars, creature, good versus evil, heroes ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago illinois, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, entertaining, surreal, futuristic, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
spy, children, espionage, child spy, monster, fantasy world, mad scientist, heroes, rivalry, villain, dinosaur, secret agents ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three young boys, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum together with their neighbor girl, computer whiz Amanda are visiting Mega Mountain amusement park when it is invaded by an army of ninjas led by evil Medusa, who wants to take over the park and hold the ...
Style:
humorous, unusual plot structure, scary, ridiculous, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, child martial arts, young heroes, childhood, violence, hostage, youth, eccentric family, heroic mission, buddies, escapades ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, stylized, dieselpunk, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
superhero, good versus evil, treasure hunt, betrayal, adaptation, aviation, world war two, disney, villain, gangsters, airplane, heroes ...
Time:
1930s, future, 90s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Movies like Real Steel
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. ...
Style:
exciting, inspirational, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
sport, car race, race, car, car chase, rivalry, hotshot hero, motor sport, chase, nascar, auto racing, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, phoenix arizona, alabama, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
chase, on the road, car race, car, car chase, rivalry, escapades, race against time, partners, road trip, contests and competitions, race ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas
Style:
exciting, light, stylized, entertaining, epic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, childhood, mutant, transformation, good versus evil, friendship, fighting crime, save the day, turtle, superhero, vigilante ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, sexy, parody, campy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
spy, disney, espionage, superhero, cold war, car chase, chase, writers, villain, memory, camp, alter ego ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, monte carlo, istanbul turkey, moscow russia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the match. When they arrive in Japan, they must use all their powers to defend him against his ancient ...
Style:
humorous, motivational, unusual plot structure, sweet, splatter ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, child martial arts, childhood, martial arts, young heroes, revenge, youth, heroes, vengeance, friends, escapades, buddies ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Movies similar to Spy Kids
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, sweet, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
car, auto racing, race, orphan, sport, children, driving, auto mechanic, dysfunctional family, torture, justice, solitude ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, parody ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, good versus evil, superhero, rescue, gadget, escapades, superhuman powers, police detective, undercover, fighting crime, secret identity, goofy hero ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Corey (Fred Savage) refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, touching, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
teenager, video game, nintendo, competition, on the road, child, children, childhood, kids and family, underdog, computer game, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, las vegas, nevada, utah ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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22K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori Shintaro whom the boys affectionately refer to as Grandpa, for the summer. Mori is a highly skilled in the fields of Martial arts and Ninjutsu, and ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, young heroes, martial arts, rescue, childhood, youth, heroic mission, escapades, rivalry, brothers, vengeance, stereotypes ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, unusual plot structure, feel good, surreal ...
Plot:
car chase, car, race, chase, car race, on the road, lone hero, writers, justice, internet, mentor, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Teenager Speed Racer aspires to be the world's best race-car champion with the help of his friends, family and his father's high-tech race-car, the Mach 5.
Style:
anime, exciting, stylized, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
contests and competitions, hotshot hero, young heroes, rivalry, save the day, heroic mission, teenage life, pets, escapades, family business, mechanic, race ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style:
humorous, feel good, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ice hockey, sport, disney, cheerleading, high school, teenager, childhood, college, school, underdog, coming of age, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Herbie is a car - but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various close escapes in between. Three further Herbie movies were to follow.
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
car, sport, auto racing, disney, auto mechanic, hippie, happy ending, chase, car race, rivalry, mentor, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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42K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's ...
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
sport, car chase, competition, rivalry, lifestyle, contests and competitions, car race, career, ambition, chase, love triangle, auto racing ...
Place:
miami, rio de janeiro, toronto ontario canada, tokyo, detroit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance are magically-induced martial arts prowess. Using their new powers they act to overthrow the island's ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, parody, clever, splatter ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, surfing, martial arts, destiny, fistfight, brother brother relationship, surfer, teenage hero, island, adoptive father adopted son relationship, showdown, royalty ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
california, israel, southeast asia, usa, indochina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, light, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, superhero, fight, vigilante, mentor, talking animals, good versus evil, antidote, uninhibited rivalry, young heroes, fighting crime ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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:
humorous, light, funny, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, superhero, martial arts, time travel, childhood, samurai, villain, violence, culture clash, magic, fight, vigilante ...
Time:
future, 17th century, 90s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
japan, new york, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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, humorous, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
superhero, imaginary kingdom, fantasy becomes reality, shark, fantasy world, school, heroes, imaginary friend, child protagonist, coming of age, young heroes, escapades ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
soccer, sport, school, disney, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
spy, espionage, children, child spy, secret agents, heroes, child hero, hidden identity, save the world, young heroes, heroic mission, undercover ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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