Movies like Momo
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Momo (1986)
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen — really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.
Style:
esoteric, surreal, exciting, feel good, semi serious, cult film
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
child, surrealism, ruins, distopia, children, goth, pagan, love and romance, coming of age, postmodernism, time freeze, time travel, money, friendship, friends, theft, fear, rebel, child hero, revolt, bravery, greed, on the run, truth, helplessness ...
Time:
future
Place:
italy
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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, escapades, young heroes, heroes, danger, friends and imaginary mostly in Family, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Momo: A Christmoose Carol (2005), Body Troopers (1996), The Great Land of Small (1986), Up, Up, and Away! (2000), The Little Ghost (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Germany, Spain, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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exciting, surreal, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
Style:
feel good, exciting, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, young heroes, save the day, daring rescue, good versus evil, disney, escapades, rivalry, master villain, teenage life, parents and children, eccentric family ...
Time:
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usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, youth, supernatural, coming of age, small town life, escapades, small town, life after death, young heroes, kids in trouble, heroes, social relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him. All the girls in Anne’s class fall for Jørgen as well, including beautiful blonde ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
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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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Story:
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46%
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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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