Movies like Summer of the Monkeys
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Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
One summer Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Style:
independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
monkey, prairie, nature, childhood, ape, family relations, farm, coming of age, youth, friends, family life, animal life, disability, small town, countryside, siblings relations, small town life, dog, horse, fight, money, escape, tornado, storm, circus ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Summer of the Monkeys
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about family relations, family, youth, friendship, animal, coming of age and friends mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Summer of the Monkeys: Andre (1994), Big Red (1962), Flicka (2006), Where the Red Fern Grows (1974), The Adventures of Ociee Nash (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
8K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, small town, youth, water, magic, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1994, 90s, 60s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
95%
896
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, animal, animal life, youth, canine, camping trip, camping, countryside, puppy love, camp, nature, orphan ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a ...
Style:
teen, talky, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, animal, hopes, horse ranch, family relations, self discovery, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, wyoming
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
Style:
sad, depressing, emotional, epic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dog, youth, great depression, animal, canine, camping trip, camp, childhood, camping, soul searching, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
1900s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma, usa
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Ociee's true bravery, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, friendship, mischievous children, farm, starting over, young heroes, single parent, lifestyle, teaching the ways of the world, adoption, family life, nanny ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, edwardian era
Place:
north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series.
Style:
uplifting, political, social, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
monkey, youth, coming of age, redhead girl, scandinavian culture, adolescence, philosophy, siblings, ape, nordic, orphan, women ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.
Style:
action adventure, uplifting, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
nature, wilderness, bear, wild animal, survival, treasure hunt, animal, wolf, rocky mountains, camping, youth, camp ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, black horse, desert, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, stallion, world war two, survival, rescue, young heroes ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, sad, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
hound dog, friendship, dog, raccoon, hunting, wilderness, follow your dream, contests and competitions, family relations, animal, coming of age, american history ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
oklahoma city
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, tense, sad ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
boy, self discovery, rescue, hopes, friendship, coming of age, children, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time:
1950s, year 1951, year 2003, post world war two, year 1952 ...
Place:
denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
Similarity:
59%
9K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
wild animal, lion, childhood, rescue, wilderness, animal, boy, adolescence, bully, youth, cheetah, bullying ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
africa, south africa, kenya
Similarity:
58%
169
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Chris is haunted by the death of his father and resentful of his stepfather Cal. He befriends a lost dog and names it Smoke, but tries to keep it a secret for fear Cal will take the dog away.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, german shepherd, nature, family relations, estrangement, animal life, remarry, farm, teenage life, betrayal, coming of age, 14 year old boy ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, touching, feel good, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
youth, seal the animal, hunter, rescue, legend, nature, coming of age, bounty hunter, family relations, friendship, bittersweet, escapades ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Style:
road movie, touching, uplifting, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
dog, cat, wilderness, animal, labrador retriever, friendship, pets, wildlife, siamese cat, puppy love, camp, camping trip ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, offbeat, humorous
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
youth, redhead girl, strong female lead, monkey, ape, nordic, women, folk hero, child hero, runaway, friends, family relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the ...
Style:
light, feel good, captivating, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
polar bear, missing person, childhood, family relations, rescue, danger, wilderness, escapades, parents and children, mountain, winter, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
54%
3K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style:
light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
gorilla, animal, socialite, zoo, camp, eccentric woman, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, kids and family ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1997, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, new york, brooklyn new york city, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on a true-story - A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable tale of two young brothers, Elliott and Rocky Plumm, who go head-to-head with the FBI in order to crack the "frog-napping" case and get their beloved TV puppet, Froggy Doo back on ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, family relations, adventurer, amateur detective, family life, parents and children, small town, child, investigation, puppet, frog, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Remake of 1943 movie based on Eric Knight's book, "Lassie Come Home"
Style:
captivating, entertaining, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
pets, dog, animal life, pet dog, best friend, human animal relationship, dog actor, north sea, journey, multiple storylines, family relations, danger ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn (Natasha Henstridge) returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy, her brother Jim (Harry Hamlin) has converted the family business from a cattle farm into ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
dog, family relations, farm, small town life, pets, animal life, small town, ambition, competition, holiday, teenager, adoption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
adventurer, dinosaur, treasure hunt, paleontologist, inventions and discoveries, escapades, hunter, race against time, youth, rivalry, prehistoric animal, child hero ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry land, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations Band, which believes that the spirit of their late chief ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, nature documentary ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, adult
Plot:
killer whale, idealism, environmentalism, escapades, animal life, youth, friendship, danger, society, homecoming, ocean, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, british columbia
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Style:
feel good, touching, emotional, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, aging, animal, runaway, motorcycle, lion, mountain lion, camp, camping trip, wildlife, camping, grief ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Hugo Archibald is a doctor and brings home a wide variety of exotic animal species. The latest animal he brings home is a chimpanzee named Jennie. Dr. Archibald is not home very much, and Andrew feels he does not care about him. And Lea his wife ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
chimpanzee, human animal relationship, sign language, heartwarming, communication, family drama, animal, animal that acts human, monkey, animal protagonist, animal training, coming of age ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animal, teenage girl, summer vacation, poacher, wild animal, jungle, cheetah, coming of age, teenage boy, mother daughter relationship, girl, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
africa, kenya, usa, california, hawaii
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, escapades, youth, self discovery, missing person, coming of age, chases and races, hopes, judaism, third world, nun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
coming of age, road trip, youth, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, texas, florida, usa, africa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, german shepherd, survival, wilderness, stranded, landscape, canine, animal, daring rescue, pets, adventurer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, canada, england, london, yukon
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. ...
Style:
crying, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
sign language, on the run, on the road, teen angst, single mother, animal, gorilla, youth, friendship, pets, lawyer, van ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hawaii, africa, seattle
Similarity:
40%
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