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Windstorm (2013)
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Original name: Ostwind
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, educational, teen
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, youth, disobey, self discovery, horse ranch, talent, teenage girl, stallion, black horse, farm, hopes, summer, teenager, coming of age, children, monkey, girl horse relationship, woman riding a horse, escape, boy, holiday, competition ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to Windstorm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, youth, woman riding a horse, family relations and hopes mostly in Family, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Windstorm: Flicka: Country Pride (2012), Emma's Chance (2016), Heartland (2007), Flicka (2006), All Roads Lead Home (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, uplifting, touching, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, stallion, horse ranch, horse race, freedom, teenage girl, friendship, self discovery, hopes ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Summer vacation. Mika is overjoyed to see Ostwind again. But then she discovers strange wounds on the belly of Ostwind, for which no one has an explanation. Yet this is Kaltenbach verge of bankruptcy! With a heavy heart Mika decides to participate ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, teen
Plot:
horse riding, horse, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, teenage girl, horse ranch, equestrian, grandparent grandchild relationship, horse race, parent child relationship, woman riding a horse, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, teenage love, youth, friends, save the day, contests and competitions, teenage life, money raising, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, father figure ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While fulfilling her community service hours at a horse rescue ranch, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused show horse who won't let anyone ride him.
Style:
touching, sincere, sweet, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
horse, teenage girl, horse ranch, girl horse relationship, community service, friendship, teenage protagonist, rehabilitation, human spirit, bonding, animal rescue, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, medical drama ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse ranch, small town, farm, wild horse, family relations, cattle ranch, siblings relations, animal life, youth, workplace, death of mother ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
80%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, farm, horse ranch, animal, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, dog, ranch, girl horse relationship, animal lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just as free-spirited and ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
horse, horse ranch, girl horse relationship, human animal relationship, wild horse, ranch, horse riding, teenager, coming of age, countryside, farm, animal life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Normandy, Louise lives happily in the horse world. Suddenly, fate strikes. Louise left alone with his father and a family friend to Ferronnière the stud where she has always lived. Business is bad, they are on the verge of bankruptcy ... ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, stallion, teenage life, rivalry, parents and children, love and romance, training, strong female character, horse trainer, woman riding a horse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, animal life, farm, friends, coming of age, hopes ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
536
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Style:
fairy tale, uplifting, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, horse, horse riding, equestrian, attempted rape, wild west, strong female lead, horse race, stallion, racehorse, woman riding a horse, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, kentucky, austin texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
horse, friendship, farm, coming of age, urban legend, self discovery, ranch, cons and scams, youth, rivalry, horse riding, child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
inspirational, captivating, scenic, sincere, exciting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
wild animal, teenage girl, lion, animal rescue, conservation, lion cub, picnic, teenager, family farm, christmas present, tough girl, strong female character ...
Place:
north africa, south africa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, sincere
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, hopes, friendship, follow your dream, ambition, young heroes, human spirit, obsessive quest, against the odds, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Dark Horse is a story of struggle and redemption. Dana, a ballet teacher, reluctantly returns to her childhood home to discover it is about to be sold. To save the farm, and the family, she must tame her mother's dangerous black horse, and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
equestrian, horse ranch, family relations, redemption, horse, homecoming, family problems, hopes, parents and children, family life, farm, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Due to the sudden outbreak of a hurricane, a traveling circus, famous for its stunning numbers with horses, calls into the small German estate of Kaltenbach. Soon, Ari realizes that one of the horses of this circus, named Orcan, is in mortal danger. ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, circus, racehorse, escapades, characters in danger, traveling circus, stallion, redheaded woman, problem, tractor ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
Style:
serious, independent film, realistic, touching
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, physical disability, disability, woman riding a horse, olympics, second chance, coming of age, human spirit, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, honest, life philosophy, redemption, animal, hopes, horse riding, animal training, children, secrets ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style:
realistic, feel good, serious, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rodeo, youth, hopes, direction and purpose, friendship, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, cowgirl, search for father, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma city, texas, usa, kansas, oklahoma
Similarity:
53%
556
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, society, youth, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, friends, hopes, orphan, parents and children ...
Time:
50s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, adult
Plot:
follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, contests and competitions, rehabilitation, youth, athlete and trainer, hopes, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, family life ...
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, escapades, starting over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, russia, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers.
Style:
feel good, captivating, sincere, light, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, horse riding, family relations, wild horse, contests and competitions, family business, social relations, against the odds, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, friendship, colonial america, rescue, best friend, hopes, american girl, animal life, young heroes, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, usa, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, starting over, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete's life, parents and children, ambition, youth, farm, rivalry, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style:
sex comedy, romantic, romantic drama, existential, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, animal, medicine, marriage proposal, boy horse relationship, orphan, great depression, woman riding a horse, coming of age, world war one, age difference ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, virginia, atlantic city new jersey, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Style:
sad, sentimental, costume drama, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, friendship, happy ending, pets, animal, animal rights, justice, getting home, hopes, horse riding, compassion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli writer David Grossman. (TIFF)
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, detective, crying
Plot:
coming of age, escapades, passion, child's point of view, rescue, family relations, self discovery, husband wife relationship, friendship, youth, dream, child in peril ...
Place:
europe, france, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Saddle Club is a children's television series based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant and is an Australia/Canada co-production. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, semi serious, sincere, educational
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, haunted by the past, underdog, against the odds, fall in love, parents and children, obsession, club, middle school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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