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Me and the Kid (1993)
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Me and the Kid (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely and emotionally neglected rich kid forms an attachment to one of the men who kidnap him during a botched robbery of his father's safe.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, police, youth, kidnapping, family relations, brooklyn bridge, millionaire, wealth, car theft, ford mustang, allergy, con man, puppy, asthma, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, con artists, fear of heights, ferris wheel, carjacking
Time: year 1993

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and semi serious films with plots about coming of age, family relations, youth, friendship, parents and children, friends and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Me and the Kid: Digger (1993), Angels Sing (2013), Emma's Shadow (1988), Emil and the Detectives (1964), Wishin' and Hopin' (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Digger (1993)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, dog, family relations, heart disease, father son relationship, boy, friendship, parents, psychic, young
Time: year 1993
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95%
 5.9
 2K
Angels Sing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 336
Emma's Shadow (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: coming of age, true love, young love, kidnapping, family relations, mischievous children, youth, on the run, friendship, immigrant, girl man relationship, ransom ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Nanhe Jaisalmer: A Dream Come True (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A childhood encounter with actor Bobby Deol leaves an indelible mark on the mind of Nanhe who idolizes the actor.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, surprise ending
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, youth, family relations, wedding, illiteracy, schizophrenia, desert, fan, camel, actor playing himself
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Emil and the Detectives (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following the thief, Emil runs into ...
Style: detective, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, youth, bike, thief, amateur detective, partner, righting the wronged, chases and races, partners against crime, danger, chase, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, light, entertaining ...
Plot: coming of age, christmas, youth, small town, substitute teacher, catholic school, parents and children, teachers and students, family relations, friendship, social relations, redheaded woman ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.2
 55K
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: babies and infants, mischievous children, chase, escapades, danger, stupidity, prank, young heroes, kidnapping, lost child, rescue, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction also known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, best friend, friendship between boys, teenage life, self discovery, mischievous children, family relations, parents and children, starting over, young heroes, fat boy ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Raspberry Magic (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Monica Shah is a brainy schoolgirl whose science fair project about growing raspberries becomes a touching emotional crusade. After her dad leaves and her mother falls into a funk, Monica decides it's her job to rescue the ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, humorous, sad ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, dysfunctional family, unemployment, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, woods, single parent, society, school, child's point of view, nature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 666
Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Tru Confessions (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything..
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, heartfelt ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, parents and children, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, estrangement, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, teenage boy, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.1
 80
Magic Rock (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a beloved Summer Camp Director dies, the popular boys' haven will be closed by the heartless Attorney who inherits it unless a dedicated young Camp Counselor can change his mind over one last summer, with the comic help of his oddball ...
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, summer camp, youth, campfire story, fishing, teenage boy, lake, water skiing, cancer, nerd, camera, campfire
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Princess and the Pony (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sheltered young princess is sent to live with relatives in America, where she befriends a pony held captive by a shady carnival owner.
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, friendship, rescue, family relations, disorder, fish out of water, danger, carnival, heroine, castle, pony, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Jack the Bear (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, scary, epic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, chess, single father, death, hospital, youth, middle school, skinhead ...
Time: 70s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: bay area, california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.9
 318
Logan (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teen does everything he can to finish his younger brother's project when tragedy strikes.
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, human spirit, teenage life, follow your dream, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, hopes, bittersweet, brother brother relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.6
 507
Chlorine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Georgie (Kyra Sedgwick), have settled ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Plot: midlife crisis, family relations, couples, couple relations, dark humor, family problems, unfulfillment, parents and children, suburbs, coming of age, dysfunctional family, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up ...
Style: talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, coming of age, high school, suburbs, family relations, best friend, friends, social relations, graduation, small town life, teenage life, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, coming of age, love triangle, friendship, small town, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, fall in love, society, mute, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1947
Place: alabama, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Can't Be Heaven (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Everyone eventually meets the love of their lives. Sometimes, like Danny and Julia, that person comes along when you are 13 years old. Other times, like Hubbie and his sweetheart, star-crossed love makes getting together a life-long adventure. This ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, preteen, afterlife, ghost, jazz, school, best friend, fall in love, unfulfillment, misfit, young lovers ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Asphalt Playground (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older ...
Style: captivating, humorous, tense, light, bleak ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage life, society, danger, family relations, hip hop, kids in trouble, gang, coming of age, urban ghetto ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 21K
My Dog Skip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, friendship, animal, youth, children, world war two, human animal relationship, baseball ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.1
 4K
Two Bits (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, anamorphic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, rich and poor, world war one, family relations, friends, hopes, self discovery, friendship, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Sound of the Spirit (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Beautiful and precocious Rivka is a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who believes in Jesus. She and her father attend a Messianic Jewish congregation in their community. But when her father suddenly dies, Rivka's life changes forever. She ends up ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, christian film ...
Plot: society, love and romance, family relations, youth, culture clash, coming of age, fall in love, social relations, religions or cults, death of father, religion, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 6.8
 26K
Millions (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: robbery, coming of age, youth, children, boy, greed, catholic, self discovery, single parent, young heroes, parents and children, saint ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: england, europe, uganda, britain, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
It Runs in the Family (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, nothing goes right, love and romance, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, year 1994
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 3K
Quints (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: baby, family relations, family life, life turned upside down, child as adult, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, theft, partner, coming of age, life is a bitch, escapades, friendship, youth, adaptation, love, danger, family relations ...
Place: indiana, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.8
 22K
Simon Birch (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, illegitimate son, friendship, destiny, disability, family relations, small town, justice, happy ending, life philosophy, obsessive quest, buddies ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 541
Spin (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, friends, family problems, orphan, hopes, eccentric family ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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