Movies like A Very Old Story
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A Very Old Story (1968)
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Original name: Старая, старая сказка
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, light, colourful
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
happy ending, princess, escapades, king, magic, imagination, boy, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, taking off shoes
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, fairy tale, feel good and light films with plots about magic, escapades, youth, family relations, friendship, danger and heroes mostly in Fantasy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like A Very Old Story: Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (1967), The Kingdom of False Mirrors (1963), Magic Silver II (2011), Four Kids and It (2020), The Snow Queen (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the ...
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fairy tale, romantic, entertaining, light, funny ...
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arabian nights, magic, rags to riches, friendship, heroes, palace, magic spell, wish fulfillment, liberation, happy ending, mythology, black magic ...
Place:
middle east, ussr
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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 ...
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family outing, kids
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magic, children, magical, imaginary kingdom, imagination, alternate reality, good versus evil, transformation, russian, getting home, art, save the kingdom ...
Place:
russia
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85%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, light
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
heroes, imaginary kingdom, save the kingdom, escapades, youth, young heroes, prophecy, dwarf, magic, strong female lead, princess, strong female character ...
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70%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, entertaining
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
wish come true, creature, magic, good versus evil, friendship, happy ending, family relations, villain, parents and children, teenager, child, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, surreal, uplifting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, child in peril, ballerina, ballet, witch, witchcraft, princess, prince, snow
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl goes on a magical journey to find happiness for her mother.
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, colourful, light, funny
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
child, child protagonist, adventure hero, girl, travel, fairy
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62%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is called the magic hour, and is created by the magic silver which only ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, captivating, exciting, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
young heroes, imaginary kingdom, escapades, fairy, courage, prophecy, save the day, supernatural, friendship, journey, chase, christmas ...
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61%
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make ...
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
theater, ogre, family relations, friends, escapades, partners, love and romance, unlikely partners, legends and myths, siblings relations, family life, fall in love ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Puppy Paws (the fun-loving son of Santa Paws) gets bored, he finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. When the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt however, and ...
Style:
feel good, fairy tale, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
dog, christmas, santa claus, save the day, holiday, hopes, owner dog relationship, disney, pets, happy ending, christmas present, animals ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Story:
A successful career Mom gets a case of empty nest syndrome when her children go off to college, and her husband decides to join them and follow his own dreams. Fearing she might be losing her family for good, she enrolls determined to save her ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, happy ending, youth, escapades, husband wife relationship, adaptation, friendship, society
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, youth, supernatural, coming of age, small town life, escapades, small town, life after death, young heroes, kids in trouble, heroes, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, India, USA
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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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
witch, children, friendship, magic, supernatural power, magician, witchcraft, school, flying, magical, magical girl, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Fantasy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
elf, legends and myths, wish come true, imaginary kingdom, rivalry, master and servant, escapades, rescue, love and romance, talking bird, breaking the fourth wall, queen ...
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56%
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:
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Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, heroic mission, good versus evil, rescue, friendship, youth, rivalry, escapades, daring rescue, hopes, curses spells and rituals, witch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, humorous, light, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
magic, good versus evil, teenager, prison, parents and children, friendship, greed, heroes, kidnapping, dancer, conspiracy, costume ...
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56%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Andy, at the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, returns to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career. Instead, he finds inspiration in his ragtag bunch of rookie magicians.
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
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54%
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 ...
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing, date night
Plot:
sleeping, queen, king, princess, curse, magic, elf, good versus evil, hopes, youth, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
A poor farmer and his wife are expecting a child at last. But after eating rampion , which she got from a sorceress, the mother developed an addiction to the rampion, which can only get from the garden of the sorceress of the father. He steals in ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, disturbing, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young Stepan saves his beloved princess Stepanka to marry Lucifer due to the promise her parents, the King and the Queen, did to the Evil as reword for the help he provided to the Queen to get pregnant.
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Audience:
family outing
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pact with the devil, princess, queen, king, lucifer, hell, devil, good versus evil, save the princess, magical, love affair, save the kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep and dreams herself into a fantastic world in which her toys become larger than life. She meets up with the Nutcracker Prince who takes her on a journey to his kingdom and defends her from the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, humorous, stylized, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, forest, curses spells and rituals, siblings relations, escapades, parents and children, coming of age, witch, cannibalism, countryside, isolation, childhood ...
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49%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, entertaining, captivating, humorous
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49%
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Country: Canada
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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