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The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978)
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The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands strong together to prove that the best things in life are really free.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, bear, winter, youth, camp, treasure hunter, real life, camping, camping trip, family relations, avalanche, parents and children, family life, escapades, danger, siblings relations, family in danger, mountain, children, nature, forest, snow, wild animal ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, exciting, serious and semi serious films with plots about escapades, wilderness, survival, danger, heroes, family relations and nature mostly in Adventure, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family: Mountain Family Robinson (1979), In Desert and Wilderness (2001), The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995), Walking Thunder (1995), Duma (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.
Style: action adventure, uplifting, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: nature, wilderness, bear, survival, treasure hunt, animal, youth, camp, camping, treasure hunter, scenery, camping trip ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mountain Family Robinson (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A family goes "back to nature" by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies.
Style: action adventure, independent film, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, animal, treasure hunt, camping, treasure hunter, youth, nature, camp, camping trip, real life, wilderness, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In Desert and Wilderness (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When 15 year old Stas Tarkowski and 9 year old Nel Rawlinson are kidnapped by rebels fighting for the great Arab leader - the Mahdi - their fathers desperately organize a search party. But the Mahdi uprising is spreading rapidly across North Africa ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, african tribe, kidnapping, wilderness, boy, arab, child in peril, danger, confined, self discovery, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sudan, north africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: panda, survival, animal, human animal relationship, family relations, coming of age, bear, treasure hunt, parents and children, animal life, friends, disorder ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Walking Thunder (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear knows as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mountain, old west, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family life, wilderness, forces of nature, teenage life, animal life, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 9K
Duma (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style: sweet, touching, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, preschool
Plot: wild animal, lion, wilderness, rescue, adolescence, youth, boy, bully, animal, bullying, coming of age, desert ...
Time: year 2005
Place: africa, south africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The New Swiss Family Robinson (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabeth 'Lizzy' by sailing yacht from Hong Kong to Syndney. The gun he gets thrown in by ...
Style: romantic, independent film, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: sailing, ocean, exotic island, sea voyage, castaway, pirate, shipwreck, rescue, treasure hunt, survival, family life, fish out of water ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, singapore, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wild Country (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, farming, nature, youth, equality, farm, post civil war, parent child relationship, friends, parents and children, wilderness, siblings relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: wyoming, pennsylvania, philadelphia, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: dog, survival, wilderness, german shepherd, stranded, canine, landscape, animal, escapades, pets, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: alaska, canada, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 6K
Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the ...
Style: light, feel good, captivating, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: childhood, missing person, family relations, rescue, danger, wilderness, escapades, parents and children, mountain, survival, winter, coming of age ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sea Gypsies (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man and a woman and 3 children start to sail around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very dangerous for them in the begining. They live through a lot of wonderful adventure ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: ocean, sailing, stowaway, sea, sea voyage, castaway, pelican, shipwreck, survival, island, wilderness, sailboat ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: alaska, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Reunited with the mother she never knew, Mandie Shaw (Lexi Johnson) finally has the family she always dreamed of, until Uncle John threatens to tear it all apart to keep an old promise. After he forbids Mandie from joining his quest, Mandie and her ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, sincere, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gold mine, chase, danger, riddles and clues, family relations, escapades, cons and scams, family secret, journey, rivalry, prairie, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jimmy, a young boy trying to gain acceptance from his peers, is horrified when he sees a circus trainer abusing a bear cub. One of the circus employees tells Jimmy that there is a magic cave in the hills nearby that can transport people to another ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, circus, wilderness, rescue, young heroes, heroes, grizzly bear, hopes, danger, escapades, survival, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: As a plea-bargain to clear their school records, a group of misfit teens ventures into the majestic but unforgiving wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves. After they encountered unexpected incident, they are aided by the ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: wolf, nature, misfit, wilderness, naturalist, friends, animal life, adventurer, escapades, survival, rescue, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Side of the Mountain (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to ...
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: survival, mountain, wildlife, nature, youth, treasure hunt, runaway, childhood, animal, owl, treasure hunter, camping ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Across the Great Divide (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two orphans set out to claim their inheritance - a 400 acre plot of land in Salem Oregon. To Do so they must cross the rugged snow covered Rocky Mountains in the year 1876.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: rocky mountains, wilderness, youth, wolf, gambler, orphan, on the run, winter, snow, mountain lion, family relations, inheritance ...
Time: 1870s, 19th century, 70s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Benji the Hunted (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, wilderness, fox, camp, forest, survival, hunter, lost at sea, canine, camping trip, wildlife ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oregon, astoria oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 601
Seven Alone (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the real-life adventure of the Sager family. Travelling with a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon, things are going well for the Sagers, until father Sager dies from blood poisoning following an Indian attack, and mother ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, youth, treasure hunt, winter, snow, wagon train, wilderness survival, nature, treasure hunter, landscape, stranded, orphan ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: oregon, missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Against the Wild (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The action-packed feature film tells the dramatic tale of two siblings and their Alaskan Malamute, who must make an emergency landing when their small plane has engine problems. They find themselves in a beautiful but potentially dangerous natural ...
Style: sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, survival, family problems, danger, escapades, coming of age, pets, wilderness, dog, nature, childhood, cave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains tries the survival instincts of five adventurous teenagers. At first, it's all a good time. Shooting the rapids, exploring caves and making new friends. But when an accident occurs, Mother Nature ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: wolf, camp, dog, camping trip, nature, wilderness survival, camping, hiking, cave, wilderness, mountain, animal life ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 8K
Wild America (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, b ears and moose.
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, wilderness, alligator, animal, betrayal, storytelling, escapades, siblings relations, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, camping ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1997, 70s, year 1967
Place: usa, colorado, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Bears and I (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a man adopts three bears, he faces one of the hardest decisions of his life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, uplifting, exciting, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: bear, native american, human animal relationship, animal, vietnam war, camp, camping trip, camping, interracial relations, wilderness, heroes, military ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A family film about Nikki, a half-wolf, half-dog raised in the Yukon during the gold rush era. After being separated from her master, Nikki must fend for herself amidst bears, the harsh Yukon weather, and a trapper who wants her skin.
Style: retro, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: gold rush, dog, wilderness, survival, animal, wolf, nordic, puppy love, landscape, nature, trapper, animal life ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: yukon, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Those Calloways (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is ...
Style: juvenile, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: animal, camping trip, camping, nature, marriage, camp, bird, family relations, wilderness, violent content, rally, environmentalism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1920s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 9K
Iron Will (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog sled, dog, survival, treasure hunt, animal, racing, underdog, winter, world war one, human animal relationship, canine, nature ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s, 20th century
Place: alaska, minnesota, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.7
 19K
The Bear (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Style: touching, scenic, uplifting, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: wilderness, bear, nature, dog, animal, survival, hunting, friendship, bear cub, rocky mountains, environmental, environment ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: canada, persia, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, exciting
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: mountain, grizzly bear, bear, animal, wild man, cowboy, wilderness, survival, heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Survival Quest (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Incredible Journey (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Style: road movie, touching, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, animal, friendship, pets, bear, camp, puppy love, camping trip, canine, wildlife ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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