Movies like Time at the Top
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Time at the Top (1999)
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Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the same place in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future.
Style:
semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, youth, elevator, single parent, time, paranormal, single mother, victorian england, hotel, time machine, family relations, family life, teenage life, changing the past or future, inventions and discoveries, hopes, travel, teenage girl, single father, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, time traveler, imaginary, family
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
philadelphia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and exciting films with plots about youth, family relations, imaginary, young heroes, teenage life, time travel and heroes mostly in Family, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Time at the Top: The Electric Grandmother (1982), Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000), A Wrinkle in Time (2003), Minutemen (2008), Smart House (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 251 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, romantic, scenic, semi serious
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, teen comedy
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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61%
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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