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Windstorm (2013)
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Windstorm (2013)
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, youth, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, self discovery, stallion, disobey, horse ranch, teenage girl, black horse, farm, hopes, talent, summer, teenager, coming of age, children, monkey, girl horse relationship, escape, boy, competition, punishment, sabotage ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: germany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, horse, girl horse relationship, family relations, teenage life, coming of age and horse riding mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Windstorm: Heartland (2007), Flicka: Country Pride (2012), Flicka (2006), Emma's Chance (2016), My Lucky Star (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Windstorm 3 (2017)
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: uplifting, captivating, sincere, light, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, horse ranch, stallion, horse race, freedom, teenage girl, friendship, self discovery, hopes ...
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Windstorm 2 (2015)
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, horse riding, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, equestrian, horse ranch, human animal relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, parent child relationship, horse race, grandmother granddaughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heartland (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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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, sentimental, sincere, medical drama ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: horse, horse ranch, small town, farm, wild horse, family relations, cattle ranch, siblings relations, animal life, workplace, youth, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, hawaii, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
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, light ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, family friendly, kids
Plot: horse, teenage love, jealousy, youth, friends, save the day, contests and competitions, ambition, teenage life, parents and children, money raising, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Flicka (2006)
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: talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: horse, animal, family relations, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection, siblings relations, girl horse relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, wyoming
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50%
Emma's Chance (2016)
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, sentimental, sweet, realistic
Plot: horse, teenage girl, horse ranch, community service, friendship, girl horse relationship, rehabilitation, bonding, teenage protagonist, human spirit, youth, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Lucky Star (2012)
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, touching, sentimental, realistic
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, rivalry, parents and children, love and romance, training, strong female character, family relations, horse trainer, stallion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
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: inspirational, touching, sentimental, feel good, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot: horse, horse race, redemption, animal, animal training, children, girl horse relationship, secrets, betrayal, racehorse, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Young Black Stallion (2003)
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: serious, touching, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: horse, black horse, desert, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, world war two, young heroes, rescue, survival, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wild Stallion (2009)
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, self discovery, urban legend, farm, coming of age, ranch, cons and scams, youth, rivalry, batman, child ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
All Roads Lead Home (2008)
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, sentimental, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, ranch, farm, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, animal, dog, animal lover, youth, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Flicka 2 (2010)
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, touching, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, kids
Plot: horse, ranch, girl horse relationship, horse ranch, teenager, wild horse, horse riding, human animal relationship, coming of age, countryside, danger, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Windstorm: The Great Hurricane (2021)
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: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, circus, fighting the system, racehorse, escapades, characters in danger, traveling circus, redheaded woman, animal, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
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75%
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Dark Horse (1992)
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: independent film, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, youth, physical disability, disability, olympics, second chance, animal life, friends, farm, rehabilitation, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Moondance Alexander (2007)
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: feel good, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, ambition, young heroes, follow your dream, obsessive quest, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Dark Horse (2008)
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: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: equestrian, horse ranch, family relations, redemption, horse, homecoming, family problems, hopes, family life, parents and children, farm, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Spin (2003)
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: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, friends, family problems, orphan, hopes, eccentric family ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
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, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Midnight Stallion (2013)
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, light, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids
Plot: horse, family relations, contests and competitions, family business, wild horse, horse riding, social relations, human spirit, against the odds, farm, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Virginia's Run (2002)
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: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, adult
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, youth, love and romance, rehabilitation, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, family life ...
Place: usa, virginia
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100%
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A Fine Step (2014)
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, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens
Plot: horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, parents and children, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, farm, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
An American Girl Adventure (2005)
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, rescue, best friend, hopes, american girl, animal life, young heroes, parents and children, family life, youth ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1770s
Place: virginia, usa, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style: serious, feel good, realistic, sentimental
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, rodeo, youth, direction and purpose, friendship, self discovery, parents and children, hopes, family relations, search for father, girl, cowgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, oklahoma, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by ...
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: african american, self esteem, coming of age, child prodigy, hopes, teacher, prodigy, teachers and students, elementary school, mentor, black, culture clash ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, washington d.c., america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Summer of the Colt (1989)
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, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, ranch, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, friends, farm, animal life, coming of age ...
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Ways to Live Forever (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, friendship between boys, leukemia, friends, child cancer, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, death, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Storm Rider (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, thought provoking, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, farm, family relations, youth, life turned upside down, friends, orphan, coming of age, self discovery, friendship, couples, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Smoke (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Chris is haunted by the death of his father and resentful of his stepfather Cal. He befriends a lost dog and names it Smoke, but tries to keep it a secret for fear Cal will take the dog away.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, german shepherd, nature, family relations, estrangement, remarry, farm, animal life, teenage life, coming of age, betrayal, 14 year old boy ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Horse for Summer (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, spiritual
Plot: horse, teenage life, starting over, family business, juvenile delinquency, hopes, youth, workplace, family life, parents and children, family problems, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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