Movies like When I Find the Ocean
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When I Find the Ocean (2006)
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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:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, pets, family life, estrangement, hopes, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations, grandparents, ocean, racism, orphan, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, grandparent, ocean or sea
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
alabama, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about youth, family relations, friendship, friends, family life, hopes and coming of age mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like When I Find the Ocean: Smitty (2012), Saving Shiloh (2006), The Christmas Bunny (2010), Ruby Bridges (1998), Little Big Girl (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, friendship, pets, family relations, coming of age, farm, single parent, dog, teaching the ways of the world, redemption, friends, hopes ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa, iowa
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95%
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, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, pets, best friends, family life, animal actor, small town, animals, childhood ...
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77%
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, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, rabbit, farm, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Story:
The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
racism, african american, civil rights, blaxploitation, art, education, disney, school, interracial relations, power relations, injustice, urban ghetto ...
Time:
60s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, feel good, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teaching the ways of the world, family life, orphan, adoption, friendship, couples, widow, doctors and patients, golden years, family relations, estrangement, homecoming ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, sincere, serious ...
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family outing
Plot:
orphan, family relations, children, friendship, hopes, destiny, friends, human nature, coming of age, grandmother granddaughter relationship, girl, teenage girl ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, melancholic, sentimental, disturbing ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, ranch, family problems, farm, dysfunctional family, family life, countryside, dog, girl horse relationship, animals, youth, horse ranch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, pets, human spirit, magic, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to the Watsons, a close knit family. When 15 year-old Byron’s antics go over the top, his parents realize enough is enough and they decide the family needs a dose of Grandma Sands' no nonsense ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, humorous, sad ...
Plot:
family relations, african american, road trip, civil rights, americana, social differences, coming of age, society, injustice, family gatherings, child, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, alabama, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's "Christmas time" at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, dog, friendship, family life, on the road, getting home, hopes, siblings relations, family relations, youth, coming of age, wish come true ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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, friends, sport team, village, youth, self confidence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, contemplative
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family holiday, small town, young heroes, friendship, contests and competitions, friends, rivalry, human animal relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, countryside, dog, wolf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, pets, fish out of water, teenage life, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrants, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
feel good, touching, semi serious, gothic, sad
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, contests and competitions, family relations, hunting, wilderness, animals, best friend, youth, american history ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
miraculous event, small town, coming of age, family relations, church, clergy, society, hopes, human nature, family life, religions or cults, village ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
wilderness, boy, friendship, coming of age, best friend, orphan, life turned upside down, father son relationship, youth, friends, adventurer, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
642
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, mountain, family relations, youth, physical disability, girl, governess, friendship, disability, friends, optimism, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family relations, family gatherings, family life, couples, optimism, fish out of water, parents and children, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, parents and children, family life, hopes, bittersweet, friendship, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
177
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Eddie's mother falls very ill after a serious car accident. Eddie and his brother Stewart end up having to take care of themselves and one night when they have ran out of food and electricity, Eddie dreams that his mother asks ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, captivating, sincere, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, against the odds, hopes, disability, kids in trouble, family life, youth, teenager, accident, christmas, saving a life, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, family life, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, mysterious character, friendship, coming of age, holiday, christmas movie
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
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family outing
Plot:
dog, disney, youth, friendship, pets, boy and dog, family relations, interracial relations, animal life, disorder, power relations, friends ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
617
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley ...
Style:
touching, sincere, uplifting, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, racism, interracial relations, friendship, golden years, odd couple, society, family life, youth, couples, family relations, friends ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story set in Missouri, "The Trial of Old Drum" tells the story of a valiant golden retriever, Old Drum, an orphan dog that becomes a boy's best friend and is then forced to stand trial for killing a neighbor's ...
Style:
touching, realistic, light, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, courtroom drama, legal investigation, against the odds, family relations, righting the wronged, rivalry, legal, legal action, dedicated lawyer, pets ...
Time:
50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in the backwoods of rural North Carolina. If the state finds out they are on their own, they will be split up and sent to live in foster homes.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere, vintage
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, hillbilly, orphan, backwoods, siblings relations, family life, wilderness, friendship, dealing with death, coming of age, human spirit, good versus evil ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, dog, adoption, boy dog relationship, pets, animals, family relations, animal shelter, friendship, social relations, pet owner relationship, society ...
Time:
50s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with her new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne she refuses to come with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While in Canada Timmy and Lassie encounter a downed hot air ballonist. By accident they end up in the balloon which takes them into the wilderness. The young boy and his dog must find a way to survive even fending off a wild pig.
Style:
serious, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, animals, nature, youth, rescue, risk, animal life, wilderness, escapades, pets, heroes, survival ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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, contemplative
Plot:
youth, children, family relations, friends, friendship, parents and children, strong female character, bullying, soccer, hopes, strong female lead, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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