Movies like Thomas and the Magic Railroad

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Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
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Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mr. Conductor's supply of magic gold dust, which allows him to travel between Shining Time and Thomas's island, is critically low. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to get more. Meanwhile, Thomas is fending off attacks by the nasty diesel engines. Getting more gold dust will require help from Mr. C's slacker cousin, his new friend Lily and her morose grandfather, plus the secret engine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, stylized, independent film, brutal, detective, juvenile, entertaining, scary, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: train, magic, friendship, rescue, thomas the tank engine, youth, parents and children, family life, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, young heroes, heroic mission, parallel world, mischievous children, island, brutality, puppet, stranger on a train, meme, mountain, pirate, friends ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, contemporary, 1990s
Place: detroit, america, toronto ontario canada, london, usa, united states of america
Keyword: preschoolers, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Thomas and the Magic Railroad

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and fairy tale films with plots about youth, young heroes, friendship, heroes, danger, friends and escapades mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Thomas and the Magic Railroad: Jack and the Beanstalk (2009), The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), The Thief Lord (2006), Toys (1992), Matilda (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
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 ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, adventurer, young heroes, danger, escapades, legends and myths, friends, disorder, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, adventure hero, magic ...
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100%
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
Style: touching, clever, light, epic, grindhouse ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: native american, friendship, toys, coming of age, toy comes to life, magic, boy, child protagonist, toy soldier, cowboy, childhood, escapades ...
Time: 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thief Lord (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, orphan, imaginary, friendship, young heroes, magic, youth, police, escapades, secret, supernatural, child ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 34K
Toys (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Style: stylized, melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: toys, good versus evil, inheritance, childhood, family relations, anti war, sibling relationship, rivalry, parents and children, family life, innocence lost, business ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.9
 24K
The Borrowers (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, youth, rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Farmer family is in big debts; they might lose their house soon. The seven year old Farmer twins, Kelly and Lynn, decide not to let this happen. They discover that somebody really mean and shrewd is responsible for all the problems of their ...
Style: spooky, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: twins, halloween, witch, magic, youth, mischievous children, supernatural, witchcraft, child, impostor, haunted, wizard ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
Style: entertaining, feel good, witty, not serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: child, supernatural ability, heroic mission, superhero, parents and children, female protagonist, friendship, alien, villain, alien invasion, boy hero, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: One day the Aislings find themselves magically transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, they discover that they've been chosen to fulfill an incredible quest! They undergo an incredible journey of discovery in strange lands with ...
Style: stylized, touching, inspirational, sentimental, epic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: imaginary kingdom, imaginary, good versus evil, escapades, supernatural ability, adventurer, minotaur, supernatural, parallel world, young heroes, dragon, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kids World (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, suspense
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, child as adult, wish come true, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, experiment gone awry, teenage life, best friend, rescue, danger, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Pippi in the South Seas (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Pippi in the South Seas (original title is Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series. Pippi, with friends Tommy and Annika, adventures on ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, monkey, youth, kidnapping, best friend, women, bird, fictional country, nordic, ape, european, rescue mission ...
Place: fictional island, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Kids of the Round Table (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in modern times, Alex finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must prove himself worthy of it.
Style: stylized, humorous, arthurian, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, child protagonist, heroic mission, wizards and magicians, battles, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, escapades, mischievous children, youth, child hero ...
Time: middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Barney's Great Adventure (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: dinosaur, chase, youth, children, meme, barney, puppet, disorder, friends, fish out of water, imaginary kingdom, countryside ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, youth, chase, st. patrick's day, holiday, magical creature, kidnapping, car chase, mental institution, gnome, raccoon ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: friends, love affair, exploitation, kids and family, family relations, travel, disorder, orphan, imaginary, rivalry, danger, rescue ...
Place: australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sherlock: Undercover Dog (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Billy, 10, a dreamer, wants to be taken seriously so he can live with his toy-designer father on Catalina Island. Billy's plans get seriously spoilt when Sherlock, a talking police dog, demands his help to rescue his police detective handler ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, sherlock holmes, youth, partner, friends, disorder, friendship, investigation, good versus evil, mischievous children, heroes, rescue ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 1K
Pufnstuf (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there, he befriends many of the island's inhabitants, but the evil Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) is determined to steal Freddy the flute away from the boy to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, slapstick comedy, family comedy
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, stoned, magic, witch, puppet, island, friends, disorder, imaginary kingdom, escapades, danger, getting home ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Pippi Goes on Board (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi LÃ¥ngstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, feel good, offbeat, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, ape, women, monkey, redhead girl, best friend, family relations, friends, disorder, imaginary, superhuman powers, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his ...
Style: feel good, funny, mysterious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: muppets, sesame street, friendship, puppet, magical, rescue, puppetry, disorder, friends, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style: stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot: imaginary kingdom, cat, youth, friendship, disorder, talking cat, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, danger, child, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 438
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
Plot: young heroes, evil queen, heroic mission, rescue, good versus evil, rivalry, daring rescue, escapades, friendship, imaginary, danger, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.8
 2K
Gordy (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: pig, on the road, talking animal, kids and family, farm, rescue, danger, heroic mission, youth, animal, death, meme ...
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Peter Pan Live! (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Following in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful The Sound of Music LIVE! - which drew over 18 million viewers - comes this musical masterpiece that tells the beloved story of Peter Pan, the mischievous little boy who ran away to Neverland. ...
Style: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: peter pan, pirate, adventurer, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, good versus evil, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, escapades, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.3
 788
Geppetto (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style: stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: youth, puppet, pinocchio, family relations, young heroes, friendship, mischievous children, parents and children, surrogate father, escapades, miraculous event, child in peril ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Stuart, an adorable white mouse, still lives happily with his adoptive family, the Littles, on the east side of Manhattan's Central Park. More crazy mouse adventures are in store as Stuart, his human brother, George, and their mischievous cat, ...
Style: light, entertaining, sentimental, stylized, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, friendship, bird, talking animal, disorder, rescue, friends, heroic mission, escapades, danger, furry, cat ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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