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Journey to Spirit Island (1988)
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Journey to Spirit Island (1988)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A greedy Indian persuades his tribe to sell the lonesome 'Spirit Island' for a congress center. Instead of transferring the historical graves on it like he tells his tribe, he plans to wipe them out. By accident a group of two Indian kids and two friends from Chicago on vacation are flown to the island and get in his way.
Style: independent film, semi serious
Plot: betrayal, friends, teenage life, society, innocence lost, teaching the ways of the world, cons and scams, teenager, native american, island, cave, dream, boat, native, girl, eagle, coming of age, car, apparition, ghost, porsche, native americans, adventure
Time: 80s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, independent film and humorous films with plots about friends, friendship, youth, coming of age, escapades, teenage life and heroes mostly in Adventure, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Journey to Spirit Island: Huck and the King of Hearts (1994), Smart Cookies (2012), Where the River Runs Black (1986), Dolphin Kick (2019), Sweet Little Lies (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Huck and the King of Hearts (1994)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, las vegas, nevada, missouri
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Smart Cookies (2012)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A high-maintenance realtor forced to do community service must lead a group of hopeless girl scouts in the regional cookie drive competition.
Style: feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous, light ...
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Where the River Runs Black (1986)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: jungle, coming of age, river, youth, priest, feral child, dolphins, social justice, nature, jungle adventure, revenge, escape ...
Time: 80s
Place: south america, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Dolphin Kick (2019)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a tropical island vacation, a young boy's friendship with a playful and friendly dolphin helps him find the courage to get back in the water after the sudden loss of his mother.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dolphins, tropical island, youth, friendship, escapades, adaptation, friends, ocean, teenage life, life is a bitch, miraculous event, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Sweet Little Lies (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: no overview yet.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, humorous, road movie, light ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, on the road, society, cons and scams, youth, rebelliousness, journey, self discovery, misfit, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Savage Land (1994)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set against the spectacular Rocky Mountains, this adventure is reminiscent of the Disney live-action classics (such as "Old Yeller" and "Escape from Witch Mountain"). Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad ...
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, wild west, native, family relations, bandit, survival, women, children, native american, stagecoach
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54%
Huckleberry Finn (1975)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
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Time: 19th century
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52%
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Breaking In (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
Style: clever, humorous, witty, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: safecracker, crime gone awry, thief, mentor, interracial, prostitute, heist, partner, disorder, friends, odd couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Corvette Summer (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
White Water Summer (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
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44%
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The Islands (2019)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the incredible true-life story of Chiefess Kapiolani who descended into an active volcano to demonstrate her new-found faith and ushered in a new beginning in Hawaii.
Style: christian film, stylized, serious, psychological, independent film
Plot: clergy, christian, society, teaching the ways of the world, ambition, blind ambition, sermon, hopes, religions or cults, legends and myths, religious conversion, historical character ...
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Klondike Fever (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Oil Prince (1965)
Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
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42%
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA, UK
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40%
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38%
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A Little Game (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989)
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35%
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Bored Silly (2000)
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Country: USA
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34%
The King's Guard (2000)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
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Style: semi serious, captivating, exciting, feel good, light ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Treasure Island (2007)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
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Style: serious, captivating, exciting, intense, talky
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Country: UK
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Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
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32%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: independent film, happy, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Tai-Pan (1986)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
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Style: independent film, epic, serious, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
FIREBALL RUN: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Duration: 107 min.
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