Movies like Blue Fin

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Blue Fin (1978)
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Blue Fin (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: fishing, ocean, family relations, ship, heroes, friendship, youth, friends, rescue, parents and children, disaster, isolation, escapades, danger, coming of age, forces of nature, young heroes, sea, storm, water, boy, boat, fish, father son relationship, port ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia, south australia
Keyword: ocean or sea

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Most similar movies to Blue Fin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, touching, feel good and realistic films with plots about youth, danger, escapades, family relations, heroes, friendship and young heroes mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Blue Fin: Storm Boy (1976), Storm Boy (2019), Captains Courageous (1996), Flipper (1963), Flipper's New Adventure (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Storm Boy (1976)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, aborigine, bird, youth, boy, australian aboriginal, drifter, animal life, pelican, family relations, friends, society ...
Place: australia, south australia
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Storm Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a highly successful retired businessman, Michael Kingley, starts to see things he at first can't explain, his life takes a dramatic turn. And when his grand-daughter rebels against her father, he is forced to re-evaluate his life and to ...
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: boy, childhood, bird, pelican, sea, ocean, son, youth, friendship, storm, boyhood, family relations ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Captains Courageous (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding school. Seasick, over the rail for real, rescued by Dan Troop of a Gloucester fishing sailboat. ...
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: sailing, ocean, sea, pirate, youth, fishing, spoiled brat, friendship, captain, courage, coming of age, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
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31%
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Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ocean, beach, dolphins, creature, animal, youth, buddies, young heroes, daring rescue, danger, escapades, pirate ...
Time: 60s
Place: bahamas, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, epic, retro ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: killer whale, friendship, friends, hunting, animal, rescue, danger, black market, kids and family, childhood, orca, youth ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Andre (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style: sentimental, touching, sad, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, youth, small town, water, wildlife, magic, human animal friendship ...
Time: year 1994, year 1962, 90s, 60s
Place: maine, usa
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25%
Pippi Goes on Board (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi LÃ¥ngstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, feel good, offbeat, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, ape, women, monkey, redhead girl, best friend, family relations, friends, disorder, imaginary, superhuman powers, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
Style: exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, daring rescue, disorder, parents and children, ship, family life, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Skippers of the Cameleon (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: rescue, twins, friendship, friends, family relations, escapades, youth, competition, brother brother relationship, smuggling, gift, mayor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Finding Friends (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, friendship, pets, teenage life, fish out of water, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time: 21st century
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24%
Secret of the Cave (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Style: serious, suspenseful, touching, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, village, christian, treasure hunt, treasure hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Storm Bound (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves.
Style: exciting, serious, atmospheric, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: island, ship, fall in love, heroes, survival, isolation, youth, escapades, danger, confined, ocean, fight ...
Time: 17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, uplifting
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: animal rescue, killer whale, family relations, friendship, confined, captivity, heroes, mischievous children, young heroes, ocean, orca, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa, australia
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23%
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 ...
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23%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min.
Story: The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, youth, buddies, mischievous children, friends, on the lam, fishing, funeral, boy, buried treasure, skinny dipping, murder trial ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, usa, mississippi
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22%
The Belstone Fox (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
Style: wild
Audience: family outing
Plot: wildlife, hound dog, english countryside, nature, wild animal, violent content, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, friendship, orphan ...
Time: 70s
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22%
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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
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22%
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Flipper (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
Style: exciting, cult classic, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, animal, coming of age, summer, fish, water, heartwarming, friendship, youth, dolphins, boat, batman ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Hildegarde (2001)
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A family's adventure to save one of their own - their beloved pet duck.
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, family relations, young heroes, heroes, rescue, pets, danger, family life, brother brother relationship, smuggling, bird, childhood ...
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21%
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The Quest (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive, and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog ...
Style: stylized, fantasy adventure, semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wilderness, landscape, child, childhood, coming of age, boy, survival, bait, national park, orphan, pond, police ...
Time: year 1986
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
The Golden Seal (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, legend, hunter, rescue, nature, family relations, fighting the system, coming of age, bounty hunter, friendship, seal the animal, animal life ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Calm at Sunset (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: family relations, ship, youth, hopes, danger, coming of age, escapades, follow your dream, small town, college dropout, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Joey (1997)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, meme, kangaroo, family relations, child in peril, friends, disorder, animal life, heroes, mischievous children, rescue, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an ...
Style: spooky, independent film, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, orphan, alternate history, coming of age, child in peril, chase, heroes, young heroes, escapades, good versus evil, rescue, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, aviation, stranded on an island, pacific island, ocean, water, trap, trapped, youth, sea, ship, profanity ...
Time: year 1980
Place: fictional island, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: jungle book, nature, rescue, boy, hyena, tiger, animal life, friends, disorder, kids in trouble, heroes, friendship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
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