Movies like Danny
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Danny (1979)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.
Style:
independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
girl horse relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, horse riding, equestrian, woman riding a horse, friendship, youth, friends, family relations, teenage life, animal life, young at heart, love, mother daughter relationship, stepfather, young girl, white horse, wealthy family, boy horse relationship, human animal relationship, stepfather stepson relationship, horse actor, horse, family, young
Time:
70s, 20th century
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Most similar movies to Danny
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about youth, family relations, family, friends, friendship, horse and girl horse relationship mostly in Family, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Danny: The Young Black Stallion (2003), All Roads Lead Home (2008), Sylvester (1985), Emma's Chance (2016), Summer of the Colt (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After the death of his father, troubled teen Jake (Alex Hugh) travels with his mother to Harmony Ranch, a special retreat for families dealing with problems. There, Jake gets to know Troubadour, a young distressed stallion. Ranch owner Chief (Mickey ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
wilderness, teenage life, rehabilitation, family in crisis, youth, hopes, family life, friendship, animal life, family relations, horse riding, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, farm, horse ranch, animal, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, dog, ranch, girl horse relationship, animal lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
536
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Style:
fairy tale, uplifting, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, horse, horse riding, equestrian, attempted rape, wild west, strong female lead, horse race, stallion, racehorse, woman riding a horse, family relations ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, kentucky, austin texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While fulfilling her community service hours at a horse rescue ranch, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused show horse who won't let anyone ride him.
Style:
touching, sincere, sweet, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
horse, teenage girl, horse ranch, girl horse relationship, community service, friendship, teenage protagonist, rehabilitation, human spirit, bonding, animal rescue, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, animal life, farm, friends, coming of age, hopes ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, anthology
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, animal, animal life, victorian england, furry, real life, youth, puppy love, friends, family relations, dealing with death, pets ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1961, 19th century
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, medical drama ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse ranch, small town, farm, wild horse, family relations, cattle ranch, siblings relations, animal life, youth, workplace, death of mother ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, sincere
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, hopes, friendship, follow your dream, ambition, young heroes, human spirit, obsessive quest, against the odds, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Mark goes for a visit with his uncle he's thrown into a world he knows not much about. Little does he know it'll be a world he's going to have to become very familiar with. One character Mark becomes very familiar and friendly ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
bear, youth, friendship, rescue, family life, orphan, danger, animal life, wilderness, escapades, family relations, cartoon bear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
Style:
serious, independent film, realistic, touching
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, physical disability, disability, woman riding a horse, olympics, second chance, coming of age, human spirit, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, friendship, colonial america, rescue, best friend, hopes, american girl, animal life, young heroes, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, usa, britain
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, feel good, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
coal mining, girl horse relationship, pony, bike, horse riding, village life, coming of age, animal life, friends, fighting the system, good versus evil, daring rescue ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise as Jack and Fog clash over drilling plans on Jack's land near a wilderness preserve. Fog surprises the town by announcing a natural spring water business instead. Jack, skeptical, is jailed for allegedly sabotaging Fog’s well. ...
Style:
romantic, serious, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, wilderness, animal life, bear, youth, heroes, hopes, escapades, family relations, human spirit, righting the wronged, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, farm, family relations, youth, friends, life turned upside down, coming of age, orphan, girl horse relationship, self discovery, friendship, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, stallion, woman riding a horse, religion, father daughter relationship, friendship, disability, starting over, optimism, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, adult
Plot:
follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, contests and competitions, rehabilitation, youth, athlete and trainer, hopes, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, family life ...
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style:
realistic, feel good, serious, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rodeo, youth, hopes, direction and purpose, friendship, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, cowgirl, search for father, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma city, texas, usa, kansas, oklahoma
Similarity:
23%
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235
Genre: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Klara moves to a small town with his mother after the parents divorced. She feels alienated unable to make friends. Most of the girls in her class likes to ride and to get closer to them, Klara lies about being an experienced rider.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, teenage love, contests and competitions, youth, parents and children, family relations, small town, parents separation, misfit, lie, woman riding a horse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, uplifting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, starting over, follow your dream, family relations, hopes, single parent, friendship, parents and children, animal life, farm, contests and competitions, rehabilitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The poignant, coming of age story about a group of eleven year old girls in their final summer before middle school.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, touching, sincere, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot:
youth, friendship, parents and children, best friend, teenage life, follow your dream, family life, family relations, summer vacation, child, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, teenage love, youth, friends, save the day, contests and competitions, teenage life, money raising, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, father figure ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
22%
698
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, family problems, friendship, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
horse, friendship, farm, coming of age, urban legend, self discovery, ranch, cons and scams, youth, rivalry, horse riding, child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But ...
Style:
epic, independent film, realistic, serious, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
aunt nephew relationship, religious, street punk, friendship, gang, small town, small town life, city life, teenage life, friends, family relations, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, utah
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, village life, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, sport team, friends, village, youth, self confidence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, youth, friendship, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, racism, injustice, friends, single parent ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, farm, friends, pets, parents and children, family problems, family relations, horse, boy, father son relationship, horse actor, grandparents ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three kids, who hope to capture their own wild mustang, outsmart a ring of horse thieves and return a prize stallion to its owner.
Style:
serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
horse, youth, girl horse relationship, family relations, disorder, mischievous children, family life, parents and children, desert, horse actor, stallion, child's point of view ...
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot:
horse, starting over, teenage life, parents and children, youth, hopes, family problems, juvenile delinquency, workplace, family life, family business, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
21%
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