Movies like Ikingut

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Ikingut (2000)
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Ikingut (2000)
Original name: Ikíngut
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed
Plot: friendship, dog, winter, snow, priest, avalanche, church, boy, iceberg, folklore, language barrier, coming of age, superstition, inuit, fart joke
Place: iceland, greenland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about friendship, boy, coming of age, dog, youth, escapades and friends mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Ikingut: Belle & Sebastian (2013), Little Mountain Boy (2015), Lone Wolf (1972), Finding Friends (2005), Digger (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Belle & Sebastian (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that ...
Style: touching, serious, stylized, educational, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing
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Time: year 2013, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: france, alps
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Little Mountain Boy (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
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Lone Wolf (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides ...
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Time: 1940s
Place: croatia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Finding Friends (2005)
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: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
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Blue Bird (1979)
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Country: East Germany, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to the United States. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by ...
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Time: 18th century
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Robby (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 104 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Pathfinder (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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38%
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Thorn Castle (2012)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Zigzag Kid (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Big Red (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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