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H.R. Pufnstuf (1969)
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H.R. Pufnstuf (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet program. The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule until August 1972. The show was shot in Paramount Studios and its opening was shot in Big Bear Lake, California. Reruns of the show aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 2, 1972 to September 8, 1973 and on Sunday mornings in some markets from September 16, 1973 to September 8, 1974. It was syndicated by itself from 1974 to 1978 and in a package with six other Kroft series under the banner Kroft Superstars from 1978 to 1985. In 2004 and 2007, H.R. Pufnstuf was ranked #22 and #27 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
Style: psychedelic, fairy tale, humorous, stylized, semi serious, weird, campy, cult film
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, puppet, magic, pop culture, heroes, friendship, kidnapping, wizards and magicians, friends, supernatural ability, escapades, getting home, rivalry, imaginary, good versus evil, imaginary character, hopes, young heroes, objects come to life, witch, dancing, spider, witchcraft, camp, castle ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place: fictional island

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Most similar movies to H.R. Pufnstuf

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, exciting and fairy tale films and TV series with plots about escapades, imaginary, youth, heroes, young heroes, danger and rivalry mostly in Fantasy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like H.R. Pufnstuf: Pufnstuf (1970), Geppetto (2000), The Evermoor Chronicles (2014), Snow Queen (2002), The Silver Chair (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pufnstuf (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there, he befriends many of the island's inhabitants, but the evil Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) is determined to steal Freddy the flute away from the boy to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, slapstick comedy, family comedy
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, stoned, magic, witch, puppet, island, friends, disorder, imaginary kingdom, escapades, danger, getting home ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
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Geppetto (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style: stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: youth, puppet, pinocchio, family relations, young heroes, friendship, mischievous children, parents and children, surrogate father, escapades, miraculous event, child in peril ...
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The Evermoor Chronicles (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor.
Style: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, young heroes, danger, wizards and magicians, teenage life, village, supernatural, witch, magic, escapades, family relations, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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49%
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Snow Queen (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The Snow Queen is a powerful story of friendship and the triumph of love over wickedness. The story follows a young woman who is forced to battle the wicked snow queen in order to save the soul of the man she loves.
Style: fairy tale, stylized, semi serious, humorous, epic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: supernatural ability, christmas, good versus evil, rescue, heroic mission, young heroes, fall in love, kidnapping, love and romance, imaginary, heroes, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Silver Chair (1990)
Genre: Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Eustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rillian.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, stylized, humorous, exciting
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: narnia, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, giant, parallel world, legends and myths, good versus evil, hopes, heroes, young heroes, heroic mission, fantasy world ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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
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48%
Witches Don't Exist (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On her 13th birthday Katie, a talented young girl, receives a magical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch to complete the order of the star witches. Because in it's incomplete form, the order is unable to protect ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, captivating, spooky
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: witch, magic, best friend, amulet, supernatural, young heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, youth, escapades, wizards and magicians, fantasy world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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47%
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Isis (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Secrets of Isis is the syndicated title of a live action CBS television series produced by Filmation in the 1970s originally titled Isis that appeared during the Saturday morning cartoon lineup. The show was also aired in various countries ...
Style: retro, serious, exciting, weird
Audience: kids
Plot: superheroine, semi nudity, comic book, female superhero, super powers, immortal, female protagonist, pop culture, kickass women, high school, secret identity, superhero ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Based on "Prince Caspian" and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Prince Caspian escapes his uncles assassination attempt and call for the aid of four young children from our world. Then, they go for a voyage over the sea to find six ...
Style: saga, semi serious, feel good, stylized, exciting
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: narnia, youth, ancient, fantasy world, supernatural, heroes, young heroes, hopes, escapades, mischievous children, rivalry, imaginary ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Cromwell clan live in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized, humorous, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: witch, halloween, supernatural, witchcraft, teenage witch, heroes, religions or cults, friends, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, imaginary, real world ...
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46%
Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: One day the Aislings find themselves magically transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, they discover that they've been chosen to fulfill an incredible quest! They undergo an incredible journey of discovery in strange lands with ...
Style: stylized, touching, inspirational, sentimental, epic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: imaginary kingdom, imaginary, good versus evil, escapades, supernatural ability, adventurer, minotaur, supernatural, parallel world, young heroes, dragon, heroes ...
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Toothless (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: afterlife, youth, dentist, hopes, supernatural, heroes, young heroes, friendship, legends and myths, family life, family relations, tooth fairy ...
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46%
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Life is anything but normal for Gortimer and his two best friends, Ranger and Mel, as they navigate Normal Street - an ordinary suburb that has a hint of something magical just beneath the surface.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, friendship, best friend, supernatural, coming of age, escapades, friends, friend, magic, group of friends, teenage life, teenager ...
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Place: usa
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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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
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Spellbinder (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
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Style: exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous
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The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Billy turns 11 on November 11 he realises he is no ordinary boy.
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, legends and myths, wizards and magicians, heroes, young heroes, birthday, friends, escapades, rivalry ...
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Pirlimpimpim (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: The adventures in science, history, learning and fantasy of a girl, a boy and their two living toys, starting from the ranch where they live, known as the Yellow Woodpecker.
Style: semi serious, humorous, fairy tale, captivating, fable
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, magic, young heroes, wizards and magicians, youth, escapades, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, woods, kindness, fish out of water, farm ...
Place: brazil, ancient greece
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44%
Kids of the Round Table (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in modern times, Alex finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must prove himself worthy of it.
Style: stylized, humorous, arthurian, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, child protagonist, heroic mission, wizards and magicians, battles, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, escapades, mischievous children, youth, child hero ...
Time: middle ages
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44%
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, adventurer, young heroes, danger, escapades, legends and myths, friends, disorder, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, adventure hero, magic ...
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44%
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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44%
Red Riding Hood (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, grindhouse, independent film, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, magical, twins, self discovery, friends, family relations, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, legends and myths, woman in danger, siblings relations, parallel world ...
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44%
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Style: fairy tale, anthology, mysterious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: legends and myths, mermaid, beauty and the beast, ancient, little mermaid, magical, snow white, beauty, legend, aladdin, magic, love and romance ...
Time: 1900s
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44%
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Robinson is a wealthy business man with no time for anything but work. However, a family curse is looming over him - no man in the Robinson line ever lives past the age of thirty. With his upcoming birthday appears the remains of literally ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, feel good, humorous, epic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, imaginary, heroes, mysterious character, legends and myths, midget, magic, magical, rivalry, youth, family relations, journalism ...
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44%
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Merlin's Apprentice (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot, a kingdom now vulnerable to ill fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail, its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack, an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly ...
Style: atmospheric, semi serious, humorous, arthurian, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: camelot, wizards and magicians, arthurian legend, magic, holy grail, curses spells and rituals, medieval, apprentice, sword and sorcery, heroic mission, imaginary kingdom, heroes ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Neverending Story III (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
Style: feel good, offbeat, fairy tale, action adventure, fantasy adventure ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: magic, bullying, book, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, dragon, sorcery, youth, sword and sorcery, childhood, kids and family, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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44%
After the Wizard (2011)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Kansas orphan turns to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman for help during a difficult time. She imagines that things have not gone well in Oz since the Wizard left and that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman must travel to Kansas to find ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, getting home, young heroes, heroes, orphan, escapades, imaginary, hopes, wizards and magicians, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, danger ...
Place: kansas
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44%
Power Rangers Mystic Force (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Years ago, a powerful spell sealed the evil forces within the Underworld. However, in the present day, when an earthquake jolts the Earth and sets them free, five teenagers try to save the world.
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, super sentai, fast
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: power rangers, superhero, secret identity, young heroes, good versus evil, save the world, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, save the day, danger, imaginary, androids and robots ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: friends, love affair, exploitation, kids and family, family relations, travel, disorder, orphan, imaginary, rivalry, danger, rescue ...
Place: australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Tales from the Neverending Story (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story: Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child somewhere between growing older, watching TV, going to school and playing with his Gameboy. But when his mother dies suddenly, Bastian's limitless ...
Style: touching, stylized, feel good, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, empress, save the kingdom, self fulfillment, self discovery, danger, escapades, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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