Movies and TV shows like The Storyteller
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The Storyteller (1987)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The StoryTeller is a live-action/puppet television series. It was an American/British co-production which originally aired in 1988 and was created and produced by Jim Henson.
Reruns of The StoryTeller episodes were featured in some episodes of The Jim Henson Hour.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, tense, captivating, sincere, folk tale, dark fantasy, exciting, anthology, whimsical
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, legends and myths, ancient, pet owner relationship, giant, forest, talking animals, monster, princess, escapades, oldtimer, dog, myth, curses spells and rituals, children, king, prince, fairy, storytelling, imaginary, puppet show, storyteller, danger, palaces castles and temples, in the woods ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, semi serious, humorous and exciting films and TV series with plots about escapades, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, danger, heroes, curses spells and rituals and rivalry mostly in Fantasy, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like The Storyteller: The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991), The 10th Kingdom (2000), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Merlin (2008), The Polar Bear King (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, exciting, anthology
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kids, pre-teens, family outing
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ancient, god or devil, writers, heroes, monster, greek, tragic hero, rivalry, escapades, oldtimer, princess, prince ...
Place:
crete
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes.
Style:
fairy tale, touching, feel good, semi serious, epic ...
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kids, pre-teens, family outing
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snow white, princess, magic, good versus evil, leadership, heroic mission, parents and children, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, medieval, evil witch, heroes ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
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This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
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visually appealing, captivating, fairy tale, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
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fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, obsessive quest, parallel universe, magic, wizards, witch, female warrior, dragon, alternate world, lion, talking animals ...
Place:
england
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 417 min.
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Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself ...
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, feel good, scenic, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
magical, good versus evil, magic, friendship, fairy, beautiful scenery, journey, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, supernatural, supernatural ability, alternate reality ...
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usa, virginia, new york
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
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kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
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fantasy world, witch, magic, good versus evil, legends and myths, talking animals, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, magical, winter, heroes, children ...
Time:
1940s, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 186 min.
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Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is ...
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family outing, kids, pre-teens
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giant, imaginary kingdom, getting home, fish out of water, against the odds, escapades, rescue, island, husband wife relationship, horse, fantasy world, surrealism ...
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Place:
fictional island
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
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epic, exciting, humorous, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
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king arthur, supernatural, magic, arthurian legend, witch, supernatural ability, legends and myths, camelot, dragon, knight, wizards and magicians, friendship ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
england, europe
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50%
Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
curse, polar bear, bear, scandinavian culture, king, witchcraft, supernatural, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, love affair, royal family ...
Time:
middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Eustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rillian.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, stylized, exciting
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
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imaginary kingdom, giant, parallel world, legends and myths, hopes, good versus evil, young heroes, heroes, heroic mission, fantasy world, magic, ancient ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
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Jack Robinson is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him - no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally ...
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fairy tale, semi serious, feel good, humorous, epic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the King is killed by ferocious reptile beasts, his Queen takes control of the kingdom. She tries to kill her beautiful stepdaughter SNOW, but she escapes into the enchanted forest...
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fairy tale, semi serious, exciting, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
snow white, imaginary kingdom, sword fight, rescue, escapades, woman in danger, love and romance, heroes, elf, forest, cinderella story, dragon ...
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37%
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, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
youth, adventurer, giant, young heroes, escapades, legends and myths, disorder, friends, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, magic, adventure hero ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Queen Aggravain has ruled that none may marry until her son, Prince Dauntless marries. However, she has managed to sabotage every princess that come along. When Sir Harry and Lady Larken learn that they are going to be parents, wed or not, he goes ...
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, kids, date night
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true love, imaginary kingdom, royal family, parents and children, wooing, couples, family relations, love and romance, disney, princess, marriage, isolation ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 375 min.
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Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child somewhere between growing older, watching TV, going to school and playing with his Gameboy. But when his mother dies suddenly, Bastian's limitless ...
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feel good, touching, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale ...
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family outing, kids, pre-teens
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imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, magic, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, self fulfillment, save the kingdom, empress, escapades, self discovery, youth ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha, Tony Sampson as ...
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atmospheric, feel good, serious, captivating
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
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canadian, missing person, children, fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, child as adult, coma, imaginary character, youth, escapades, getting home, subconscious ...
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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
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young heroes, imaginary kingdom, escapades, fairy, courage, prophecy, save the day, supernatural, friendship, journey, chase, christmas ...
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36%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, serious, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, teens
Plot:
winter, imaginary kingdom, friendship, curses spells and rituals, long lost daughter, snow, little girl, christmas, new year, forest, young heroes, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Story:
When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, stylized, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, puppet, pinocchio, family relations, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, parents and children, surrogate father, child in peril, escapades, miraculous event ...
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35%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
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dark fantasy, fairy tale, visually appealing, light, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, fantasy world, puppetry, good versus evil, sword and sorcery, mission, crystal, medieval, monster, race against time, alternate reality, life philosophy ...
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34%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 49 min.
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MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as ...
Style:
humorous, clever, offbeat
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kids
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missing person, obsessive quest, cyberspace, rivalry, legends and myths, imaginary kingdom, teenage life, youth, escapades, heroes, villain, quest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name, which happens to be one of the most poetic and beautiful Russian fairy tales. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of a ...
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fairy tale, exciting, captivating, folk tale, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
heroes, good versus evil, rescue, heroic mission, love and romance, escapades, rivalry, legends and myths, kidnapping, imaginary kingdom, ancient, mythology ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
russia, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and ...
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semi serious, humorous, retro
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kids, preschoolers, family outing
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muppets, friendship, puppetry, pop culture, friends, disorder, escapades, underground, construction worker, surrealism, exploration, dog ...
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80s
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34%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, Romania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
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clever, captivating, semi serious, stylized, feel good ...
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family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
legends and myths, mischievous children, hopes, disorder, humble, friendship, imaginary kingdom, rabbit, mole, hedgehog, escapades, social misfits ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, heroic mission, legends and myths, good versus evil, arthurian legend, friendship, escapades, rivalry, fish out of water, disorder, heroes, disney ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
england, europe, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
The Snow Queen is a powerful story of friendship and the triumph of love over wickedness. The story follows a young woman who is forced to battle the wicked snow queen in order to save the soul of the man she loves.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, stylized, humorous, epic
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
supernatural ability, christmas, rescue, good versus evil, heroic mission, hotel, young heroes, kidnapping, fall in love, love and romance, escapades, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
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Story:
The adventures in science, history, learning and fantasy of a girl, a boy and their two living toys, starting from the ranch where they live, known as the Yellow Woodpecker.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, captivating, fable
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, magic, forest, young heroes, youth, escapades, wizards and magicians, imaginary kingdom, fish out of water, kindness, farm, countryside ...
Place:
brazil, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ...
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fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating
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 ...
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34%
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:
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34%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, ...
Style:
exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
parallel world, teenager, twists and turns, young heroes, friendship, rivalry, technology, getting home, youth, escapades, disorder, adaptation ...
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34%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Turkey, Jordan, USA
Duration: 175 min.
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Story:
Scheherezade puts herself in danger to save Sultan Schariar, her childhood friend, from the madness that has gripped him since the death of his cheating wife at his own hands.
Style:
epic, exciting, fairy tale, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
arabian nights, genie, magic, thief, love and romance, good versus evil, heroic mission, vengeance, escapades, rivalry, dishonesty, parents and children ...
Place:
middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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