Movies like Race to Space

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Race to Space (2001)
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Race to Space (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: nasa, chimpanzee, heroes, space travel, follow your dream, heroic mission, family relations, family life, race against time, satellite, animal life, space, youth, space exploration, exploration, space and aliens, parents and children, chases and races, single parent, hopes, dealing with death, anti hero, space race, animal trainer, outer space ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, florida

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Most similar movies to Race to Space

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and sentimental films with plots about family relations, youth, hopes, parents and children, family life, family problems and friends mostly in Drama, Family and Mystery genres. Some movies like Race to Space: Miracle Dogs Too (2006), Virginia's Run (2002), When I Find the Ocean (2006), All Roads Lead Home (2008), Louder Than Words (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Miracle Dogs Too (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.
Style: sentimental, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, small town, family relations, miraculous event, parents and children, hopes, animal life, young heroes, human spirit, pets, magic, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.2
 804
Virginia's Run (2002)
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: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, adult
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, youth, love and romance, rehabilitation, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, family life ...
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
When I Find the Ocean (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A little girl leaves home with her pet dog and rabbit to escape abuse and find the ocean in the hopes of feeling closer to her father who has passed away.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, hopes, pets, estrangement, family life, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
All Roads Lead Home (2008)
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, sentimental, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, ranch, farm, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, animal, dog, animal lover, youth, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Louder Than Words (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hospital, child illness, parents and children, human spirit, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, last wish, family relations, hopes, couple relations, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.5
 563
Mary Christmas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, fall in love, wish come true, parents and children, birth mother, television reporter, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.4
 10K
Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, veterinarian, animal life, friendship, rescue, youth, family relations, hopes, human spirit, friends, animal, sea turtle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.5
 515
Miracle Dogs (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals.
Style: serious, feel good, touching, cute
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, against the odds, young heroes, human spirit, optimism, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, miraculous event, heroes, pets, cancer ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot: custody, foster parent, kids in trouble, starting over, family life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
We Can Be Heroes! (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: youth, children, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, strong female character, european, bullying, soccer, hopes, personal growth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 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 ⇓
55%
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, supernatural, parents and children, disorder, teenage life, haunted house, starting over, family relations, pets, family life, afterlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.7
 656
Mermaid (2000)
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, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.7
 267
Big Spender (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Orphan Eddie Burton is not bad, but too many screw-ups land him repeatedly in jail, so his 8-year old son Will, simply abandoned by his 'mother', has nobody else then Eddie's granny. When he hears about a program for convicts working ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Plot: horse, redemption, rehabilitation, rider horse relationship, prison, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, follow your dream, parents and children, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Heart of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Dax Ryan Locke, born to Julie and Austin Locke on June 26, 2007, was diagnosed with AML M7, a rare form of leukemia, when he was 13 months old. The Heart of Christmas is set in Washington, Illinois and at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ...
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sad, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sad ending, terminal illness, sick child, christmas, child illness, parents and children, family life, dealing with death, small town, leukemia, cancer, blog ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Time to Remember (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, family relations, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, single parent, hopes, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, reconciliation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, farm, rabbit, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Walking Thunder (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear knows as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mountain, old west, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family life, wilderness, forces of nature, teenage life, animal life, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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A Horse for Summer (2015)
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: serious, realistic, emotional, spiritual
Plot: horse, teenage life, starting over, family business, juvenile delinquency, hopes, youth, workplace, family life, parents and children, family problems, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, gothic, sad ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, family relations, contests and competitions, animal, hunting, wilderness, american history, canine, animal lover ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: space travel, moon, nasa, spacewalk, heroic mission, human spirit, space exploration, escapades, heroes, heroism, astronaut, exploration ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.2
 938
Saving Shiloh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, saga
Audience: family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.7
 249
Charlie & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When her beloved grandfather Charlie suddenly falls ill, twelve year-old Casey finds herself making some life or death decisions - and learning to live with the consequences.
Style: uplifting, feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, love and romance, self discovery, hopes, elderly, death in the family, friends, dealing with death, hospital, chess ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Of Boys and Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, grief, death of wife, accidental death, love, society, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Finn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, twisted
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, father figure, follow your dream, family relations, teachers and students, musician's life, hopes, elderly, parents and children, grandfather, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 26K
Dolphin Tale (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: summer, young heroes, hopes, water, friendship, animal life, human spirit, animal, youth, fish, destiny, child ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
We Shall Overcome (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
Style: captivating, serious, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: teachers and students, young heroes, rebellion, human spirit, fighting the system, society, youth, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, anti conformity, parents and children ...
Time: 60s
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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One Christmas (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: TV film that was to be Katherine Hepburn's last performance. Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Style: christmas classics, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, youth, holiday, family relations, estrangement, family problems, family gatherings, child as adult, dysfunctional family, road not taken, family life, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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