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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
Original name: IMAX - T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Ally Hayden is a teenager who shares her father's interest in dinosaurs and archaeology. When he brings a mysterious fossil back from a dig, she is convinced it's the egg of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. After accidentally knocking the egg to the floor, Ally begins to experience visions, as if she was being transported back in time to the Cretaceous period. There, she encounters several different dinosaurs, including her favorite, the mighty T-Rex.
Style: independent film, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, exciting, light, breathtaking, suspense, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, giant monster, kaiju, children, prehistoric animal, adventurer, paleontologist, youth, misfit, rescue, dangerous animal, escapades, danger, animal life, imaginary, experiment gone awry, ancient mystery, disorder, obsessive quest, unlikely partners, young heroes, heroic mission, anti hero, jungle ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, future, 80s
Place: canada, las vegas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, independent film and feel good films with plots about escapades, heroes, youth, danger, young heroes, disorder and imaginary mostly in Adventure, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous: Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991), A Wrinkle in Time (2003), Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), Prehysteria! (1993), Barney's Great Adventure (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, animal, puppet, kidnapping, prehistoric animal, giant monster, heroes, imaginary, youth, danger, space and aliens ...
Time: prehistory, 1900s, prehistoric times, stone age
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Style: serious, weird
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, lost world, kaiju, giant monster, reptiles, monster, giant creature, prehistoric creature, explorer, jungle adventure, expedition ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1985, 80s, prehistory
Place: africa
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100%
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min.
Story: Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, stylized, independent film, detective ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: train, magic, rescue, friendship, thomas the tank engine, good versus evil, adventurer, escapades, youth, danger, young heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: detroit, toronto ontario canada, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Prehysteria! (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, single parent, kaiju, stop motion, prehistoric animal, giant monster, kids and family, monster, family relations, museum, youth, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1993, prehistory
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46%
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 ...
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, friendship, family relations, friends, disorder, imaginary, danger, youth, rescue, race against time, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Land of the Lost (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, stylized, epic fantasy ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, lost civilization, cave woman, tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric animal, alternate reality, reptiles, magic, kaiju, prehistoric creature, pop culture, fish out of water ...
Time: prehistory, 70s, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
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Time: year 2004, year 1917, 1910s
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31%
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Country: UK, Germany
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30%
Pirates of the Plain (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: pirate, youth, adventurer, heroes, curse, time travel, friends, family relations, ship, heroic mission, family life, countryside ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, caribbean
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30%
Magic in the Water (1995)
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Duration: 98 min.
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Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Kids World (2000)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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26%
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by ...
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Style: independent film, semi serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: prehistoric times, 1940s, prehistory, year 1916
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 89 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Dragonworld (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 86 min.
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25%
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Dinotopia (2002)
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Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Barney's Animal ABCs (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat, educational
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: friendship, disorder, youth, misfit, escapades, animal life, animal that acts human, friends, tyrannosaurus rex, dinosaur
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, boys' night, family outing, kids
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Time: prehistory
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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