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Blue Fin (1978)
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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:
lighthearted, 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
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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, friendship, family relations, family, friends, escapades and danger mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Blue Fin: Storm Boy (1976), Storm Boy (2019), Captains Courageous (1996), Flipper (1963), Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
lighthearted, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coming of age, aborigine, boy, bird, youth, australian aboriginal, young boy, drifter, animal life, little boy, pelican, family relations ...
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
boy, childhood, bird, pelican, sea, ocean, storm, youth, friendship, son, boyhood, family relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
south australia, adelaide south australia
Similarity:
100%
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, family outing, kids
Plot:
sailing, sea, ocean, fishing, pirate, youth, coffee, dice, checkers, storm, gambling, cigar ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
31%
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, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
boy, father son relationship, rescue, ocean, youth, healing power, coming of age, fishing, fisherman, animal, young heroes, friendship ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa
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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, hunting, rescue, poaching, friends, environmentalism, father son relationship, boy, fisherman, ship captain, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
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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, touching, suspenseful, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, christian, treasure hunt, coming of age, treasure hunter ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe, seattle
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24%
8K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, small town, youth, water, magic, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1994, 90s, 60s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
24%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, disorder, daring rescue, family life, parents and children, ship, desert island ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, pacific ocean
Similarity:
24%
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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 Långstrump 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, redhead girl, ape, women, monkey, best friend, disorder, family relations, friends, heroes, imaginary, superhuman powers ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
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, mayor, theft, gift ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland, netherlands
Similarity:
23%
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:
pets, coming of age, friendship, fish out of water, teenage life, save the day, youth, young heroes, escapades, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
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, survival, heroes, isolation, danger, confined, escapades, youth, ocean, fight ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
23%
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, touching, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, family relations, young heroes, rescue, heroes, danger, pets, family life, brother brother relationship, smuggling, bird, childhood ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
13K
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, ...
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Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
florida, bahamas, usa
Similarity:
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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:
skinny dipping, friendship, youth, mischievous children, buddies, friends, funeral, boy, buried treasure, fishing, murder trial, on the lam ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
missouri, usa, mississippi
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, friendship, friends, family relations, youth, best friend, desert, society, escapades, aborigine, save the day, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
22%
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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:
touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, black horse, desert, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, stallion, world war two, survival, rescue, young heroes ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
polar bear, missing person, childhood, family relations, rescue, danger, wilderness, escapades, parents and children, mountain, winter, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
21%
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, touching, feel good, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
youth, seal the animal, hunter, rescue, legend, nature, coming of age, bounty hunter, family relations, friendship, bittersweet, escapades ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
21%
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, emotional, touching
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, ship, follow your dream, coming of age, youth, danger, escapades, hopes, siblings relations, college dropout, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
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:
fantasy adventure, stylized, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
wilderness, teenage boy, police, pond, homeless man, myth, bait, national park, survival, boy, little boy, child ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
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, touching, feel good, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, puppet, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, wish come true, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger ...
Time:
year 1996, 18th century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
animal, human animal relationship, friendship, killer whale, animal training, rescue, whale, animal life, freedom, coming of age, boy, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, portland oregon, usa
Similarity:
20%
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, jungle adventure, boy, hyena, tiger, nature, rescue, disorder, animal life, kids in trouble, friends, young heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the ...
Style:
independent film, happy, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coming of age, sailing, boat, camping, lake, sailboat, rivalry, seaside, beach, sea, holiday, family relations ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry land, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations Band, which believes that the spirit of their late chief ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, nature documentary ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, adult
Plot:
killer whale, idealism, environmentalism, escapades, animal life, youth, friendship, danger, society, homecoming, ocean, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, british columbia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Bobby and his Mom move from Toronto, away from his dad and his baseball team, to a small town in Nova Scotia, he's picked on by all the local kids, except for Jo. And Jo has also befriended a lonely male moose who lives on an island, and ...
Style:
semi serious, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
moose, single father, bullying, father figure, single mother, 007, family relations, boy, human animal relationship, friends, disorder, animal life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nova scotia, canada, canada, nova scotia
Similarity:
20%
662
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:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
kangaroo, youth, meme, family relations, child in peril, animal life, friends, disorder, heroes, babies and infants, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia
Similarity:
20%
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