Movies like Tom Sawyer 1973

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Tom Sawyer (1973)
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Style: epic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: friendship, coming of age, river, youth, adventurer, treasure hunt, mischievous children, young heroes, nature, slavery, supernatural, kingdom, childhood, treasure hunter, young girl, corporal punishment, raft, punishment, skinny dipping, bare chested male, young boy, small town, heroes, friends, pets ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, victorian
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia, mississippi river, saint petersburg
Keyword: twilight, preschoolers

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Most similar movies to Tom Sawyer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and realistic films with plots about youth, friends, friendship, young heroes, family relations, escapades and disorder mostly in Adventure, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Tom Sawyer: The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Huckleberry Finn (1975), The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), The Prince and the Pauper (2000), My Side of the Mountain (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min.
Story: The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, youth, buddies, mischievous children, friends, on the lam, fishing, funeral, boy, buried treasure, skinny dipping, murder trial ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, usa, mississippi
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100%
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney presents The Adventures of Huck Finn, starring Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns), ...
Style: gothic, road movie, epic, uplifting, juvenile ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, slavery, friendship, coming of age, childhood, racism, slave, interracial friendship, child in peril, child, river, runaway ...
Time: victorian era, year 1993, 19th century, 1840s
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Huckleberry Finn (1975)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, disorder, friends, on the road, racism, interracial relations, coming of age, mischievous children, on the run, chases and races, escapades, african american ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tom Sawyer (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Romania
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer (LOUIS HOFMANN) has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn (LEON SEIDEL) - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly (HEIKE MAKATSCH) with Tom and his ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: child's point of view, buddies, adventurer, young heroes, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, prank, false accusation, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, murder witness, young love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: missouri, america, st. petersburg russia, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - Tom's friend from the streets - witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about the incident. However, when the good-natured ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, friendship between boys, coming of age, first love, adventurer, childhood, disorder, small town, escapades, mischievous children, orphan ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into ...
Style: feel good, touching, exciting, humorous, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: rich and poor, youth, switching roles, hidden identity, mistaken identity, fish out of water, young heroes, social differences, tudors, dishonesty, intrigue, human nature ...
Time: 16th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood ...
Style: melancholic, light, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: children, friendship, little girl, magic, greed, family relations, young heroes, imaginary, rescue, disorder, danger, mischievous children ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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My Side of the Mountain (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to ...
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: survival, mountain, wildlife, nature, youth, treasure hunt, runaway, childhood, animal, owl, treasure hunter, camping ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: jungle book, nature, rescue, boy, hyena, tiger, animal life, friends, disorder, kids in trouble, heroes, friendship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Andre (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style: sentimental, touching, sad, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, youth, small town, water, wildlife, magic, human animal friendship ...
Time: year 1994, year 1962, 90s, 60s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
26%
K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Kassie and her friends stumble across an old, broken pocket watch they begin an unexpected journey to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold. They'll have to solve riddles and follow clues to find the lost treasure. With the help ...
Style: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: treasure hunt, best friend, escapades, pets, youth, young heroes, journey, dog, friendship, rivalry, german shepherd, police dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Huck and the King of Hearts (1994)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: youth, native, disorder, optimism, animal life, friends, family relations, cons and scams, family life, interracial relations, on the road, chases and races ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, las vegas, nevada, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Monkey Trouble (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Style: humorous, independent film, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, childhood, monkey actor, friendship, coming of age, youth, human animal relationship, animal, girl, business, wild animal, stupid kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Cheetah (1989)
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, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: poacher, cheetah, jungle, animal, coming of age, human animal relationship, teenage life, runaway, cat, child, survival, nature ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, kenya, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Bennie Stout (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fisherman’s son Benjamin - Bennie - Stout is a boy with a heart of gold who always gets himself into trouble. His St. Nicholas wish list includes a pedal car, just like the one the sneaky mayor’s son Roderick has. These are the depression years ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, family life, family relations, youth, escapades, disorder, small town, small town life, santa claus, boy, parents and children, imaginary kingdom ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, father daughter relationship, family relations, widower, friends, parents and children, pets, disorder, family life, single parent, mischievous children, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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22%
Monkey in the Middle (2014)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chris has just moved to the East Coast, and already his workaholic father is encouraging him to make new friends. Luckily football (soccer) practice is starting up, and Chris meets a few kids on the team-including his cute neighbor Mara. When Mara ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, friendship, family relations, disorder, single parent, friends, coming of age, animal life
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Metro Chase (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This family comedy is about, Zack, an 8-year old American boy who is separated from his 18-year old sister, as they arrive in Paris for a family vacation. Seth, and friends track Zack down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, family comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: chase, young heroes, mischievous children, disorder, danger, kids in trouble, youth, child in peril, silly humor, family relations, friends, amateur detective ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Gentlemen, Boys (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Funny family comedy based on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friends, young at heart, buddies, chases and races, young lovers, coming of age, mischievous children, youth, escapades, young heroes, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, czech republic, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Peter Pan (2000)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Broadway musical adaptation of the fabled children's story.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, exciting, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, broadway, adventurer, young heroes, heroes, good versus evil, peter pan, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, imaginary kingdom, youth, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Benji (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes ...
Style: sentimental, sweet, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, animal actor, kidnapping, friendship, rescue, animal, betrayal, greed, obsession, life philosophy, family relations, longing ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Red Riding Hood (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Teenage Claire (Morgan Thompson) would rather hang out with her friends at the mall than to stay home with her brother Matt while Grandma babysits. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, Grandma isn't about to let Claire out of the house. Worse, she ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: little red riding hood, missing person, fish out of water, love and romance, good versus evil, danger, adventurer, woman in danger, family relations, rescue, young heroes, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Rascals on the Road (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, treasure hunt, friends, farmer, childhood, escapades, on the road, mountain, youth, leaving home, journey, boy scout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Pippi Longstocking (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 100 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: political, social, uplifting, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: monkey, youth, coming of age, ape, nordic, orphan, women, philosophy, siblings, adolescence, scandinavian culture, childhood ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A heartwarming Disney classic in which a cougar, who was rescued as a cub and raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest, reverts back to his natural instincts, leading to hilarious (and dangerous) consequences.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: cougar, animal, friendship, wilderness, cat, survival, orphan, pets, bear, wild animal, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Adventures of Ociee Nash (2002)
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: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic, gothic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, mischievous children, farm, young heroes, starting over, lifestyle, single parent, family life, teaching the ways of the world, adoption, nanny ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Napoleon (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, pets, golden retriever, balloon, family relations, survival, odd couple, youth, getting home, rescue, young heroes, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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