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Return to Nim's Island (2013)
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Return to Nim's Island (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.
Style: exciting, humorous, sincere, captivating, touching, offbeat
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, teen fantasy, family outing
Plot: animal rescue, island, danger, teenage life, family relations, escapades, environmentalism, save the day, friendship, poacher, treasure hunt, teenage girl, treasure hunter, sea lion, seal the animal, travel, heroes, friends, resort, rivalry, good versus evil, child in peril, woman in danger, strong female lead, nature ...
Place: fictional island, australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, exciting, humorous and captivating films with plots about danger, youth, escapades, heroes, young heroes, friends and family relations mostly in Family, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Return to Nim's Island: Nim's Island (2008), Ocean Girl (1994), The Secret of Moonacre (2008), H2O: Just Add Water (2006), Mia and the White Lion (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nim's Island (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style: exciting, scenic, captivating, sad, fairy tale ...
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Plot: island, little girl, young heroes, exotic island, imaginary friend, writers, family relations, single father, danger, scientist, jungle, poacher ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: fictional island, san francisco, patagonia, pacific ocean, indonesia ...
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Ocean Girl (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: human animal relationship, female protagonist, underwater, mermaid, environmentalism, family relations, teenage life, boat, monster, ship, animal, water ...
Time: future
Place: australia, egypt
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100%
The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man who stops into a foster home to drop off some donations soon tells the kids a story about two teenage friends who uncover a long-lost medallion that transports them back in time.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, christian film
Audience: family outing, girls' night, kids, teen fantasy
Plot: adventurer, teenage life, danger, coming of age, parents and children, heroes, escapades, young heroes, uninhibited rivalry, christian, time travel, child protagonist ...
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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 17-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: steampunk, hotel, adventurer, youth, chase, life turned upside down, escapades, young heroes, missing person, teenage life, family in danger, secret place ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: london
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100%
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The Secret of Moonacre (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary, UK, France, Australia, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre ...
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Plot: imaginary kingdom, young heroes, orphan, imaginary, teenage life, family relations, youth, curses spells and rituals, magic spell, estate, rivalry, heroes ...
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H2O: Just Add Water (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: When three normal teenage girls stumble upon a ancient cave they undergo a transformation that will change their lives forever. H20 - Just Add Water, sees three very different girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist - they're ...
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Plot: mermaid, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, teenage life, friends, love and romance, friendship between girls, hidden identity, friendship, miraculous event, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oceania, australia
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Mia and the White Lion (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, Monaco, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Style: captivating, scenic, sincere, inspirational
Audience: kids
Plot: wild animal, teenage girl, lion, animal rescue, conservation, lion cub, picnic, teenager, family farm, christmas present, broken promise, strong female character ...
Place: north africa, south africa, africa
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Danish brilliant pre-teen student Nis uses his summer holiday to learn Latin so he can properly study the Knights Templar inheritance on Bjornholm island from sources. His friends Mathias, a dumb jock, and Kathrine, who only comes to spend time wear ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, ancient mystery, rescue, danger, parents and children, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, family relations, religions or cults, father daughter relationship, strong female character, crusader ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
Place: denmark
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Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, soldier, disorder, boy, save the day, prank, escapades, friendship, friends, rivalry, supernatural, danger ...
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The Dragon Pearl (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) join their respective parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and Dr LI (Wang Ji) on an archaeological dig in China they encounter something trapped beneath a temple beyond their wildest imagination. A ...
Style: exciting, stylized, atmospheric, humorous, mythical ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
Place: china, australia
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, wilderness, survival, animal, youth, childhood, friendship, young heroes, danger, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: british columbia, canada
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Island of Lost Souls (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 14-year-old Lulu moves to a small provincial town with her mother and younger brother. One night, her brother is struck by a beam of white light - actually the spirit of Herman Hartmann from the 19th-century. To her despair, Lulu realizes that ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: supernatural, escapades, danger, heroes, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, magic, strong female character, treasure hunt, ghost, treasure hunter, island ...
Time: 19th century
Place: fictional island
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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 ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Story: In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
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Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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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.
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Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
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Time: prehistory, 1900s, prehistoric times, stone age
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Level Up (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Four very different high school teenagers battle trolls, ghouls and a dark leader of them named Maldark in a video game that goes haywire and releases the battle into the real world (IMDb.com).
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, captivating, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: good versus evil, save the world, rivalry, youth, danger, parallel world, video game, supernatural, friendship, battles, escapades, nerd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Arthur's Quest (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King Arthur into modern day America. When Merlin comes back ten years later to retrieve him, he finds a hip 15 year-old Arthur who does not believe Merlin, nor ...
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
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A Light in the Forest (2003)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: exciting, light, captivating, contemplative, offbeat
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Bigfoot (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The whole family will enjoy huge laughs and giant, hairy adventures with this touching tale about a big-hearted Bigfoot. Lost in the forest, he befriends three kids, Percy, Madison and Leonard, who are determined to protect him. When two local ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: sasquatch, friendship, rescue, friends, bigfoot, woods, danger, youth, school, captivity, rivalry, pets ...
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
Style: exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, daring rescue, disorder, parents and children, ship, family life, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, pacific ocean
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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey ...
Style: semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, mythical ...
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Plot: environmentalism, rescue, young heroes, heroes, danger, treasure hunt, escapades, wilderness, family life, legends and myths, river, father son relationship ...
Place: canada
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Treasure Island (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, pirate, ship, treasure, treasure island, treasure hunter, historical event, piracy, sea, captain, hunter, courage ...
Time: 18th century, year 1972
Place: fictional island, caribbean
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Siren has lived her life thinking she's an ordinary girl, in an ordinary town. On her 12th birthday, she learns that she's far from ordinary.
Style: enigmatic, light, exciting, captivating
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night
Plot: mermaid, youth, strong female character, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, supernatural, transformation, teenager, teenage life, underwater, ocean ...
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Body Troopers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
Style: cult classic, exciting, surreal, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, friends, chase, young heroes, heroes, save the day, escapades, danger, chases and races, heroic mission, boy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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33%
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Magic Island (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave, his nanny, convinces him to read this 'magic book'. ...
Style: exciting, offbeat, humorous, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mermaid, treasure map, pirate, time travel, drowning, nanny, child in peril, family relations, disorder, parents and children, teenage life, imaginary kingdom ...
Place: fictional island, los angeles
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story: They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, orphan, good versus evil, danger, heroes, supernatural, parallel world, hopes, rivalry, daring rescue, kidnapping, heroic mission ...
Place: ussr, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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32%
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
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32%
The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In "The Three Investigators and The Secret of Skeleton Island" the cult detective trio from Rocky Beach, California, fall into a breath-taking mixture of adventure, thriller and mystery. Only by a hairs-breadth did they escape with their ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ancient mystery, youth, investigation, amateur detective, treasure hunt, legend, partner, save the day, escapades, island, chase, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Five Children and It (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: youth, wish fulfillment, young heroes, heroes, mischievous children, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, supernatural, danger, rivalry, misfit ...
Time: year 2004, year 1917, 1910s
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