Movies like Max, Sally and the Magic Phone

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Max, Sally and the Magic Phone (2001)
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Max, Sally and the Magic Phone (2001)
Original name: Mach, Šebestová a kouzelné sluchátko
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl.
Style: psychotronic, metafiction, urban fantasy
Plot: dog, school, ghost, children, police officer, teacher, doctor, aristocrat, missing person, theft, family relations, helicopter, animal human communication, psychiatrist, nobleman, television, director, disappearance, cow, child protagonist, spoiled brat, invisibility, greed, absurd humor, surrealism ...
Place: central europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, entertaining and semi serious films with plots about family relations, surrealism, friendship, friends, escapades, imaginary and children mostly in Animation, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Max, Sally and the Magic Phone: Little Witch on a Broomstick (2011), Harvie and the Magic Museum (2017), The Oddsockeaters (2016), The Blacksmith from Woodham (2013), Kurt Turns Evil (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Witch on a Broomstick (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Your mum is a Witch, be careful what You play with
Style: humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, imaginary, wizards and magicians, parents and children, young heroes, youth, magic, supernatural power, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, megalomaniac ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Harvie and the Magic Museum (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Harvie is a smart but a bit too lively boy with one ambition, to finish the last level of his computer game. Once in the Gamers Hall of Fame, his absent-minded father, would finally be proud of him. But finishing the game turns out to be only the ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: museum, game, fantasy world, satire, computer game, child, dream world, adventure hero, boy, dog, father son relationship, child protagonist ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Oddsockeaters (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: ODDSOCKEATERS are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair. But unlike them, Seed’s gang wants to have a pair. In the end, they began their fight between two sets of values.
Style: 3d animation, colorful, light, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: gang of thieves, mad scientist, heist, collector, secretly observing, presumed dead, private investigation, rebellion, brother sister relationship, rivalry, singer, pretending to be someone else ...
Time: 21st century
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Blacksmith from Woodham (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Woodham is a small village the war with the Turks swept through some years ago. The powers of good were asked for assistance, but this assistance involved the doing of evil, which has adverse consequences and brings bad luck... that needs to be ...
Style: psychotronic, fairy tale
Plot: love, fairy, magic, soul, stop motion, absurdism, wedding, dog, mayor, priest, czech village, magical sword ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Kurt Turns Evil (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 74 min.
Story: One day Kurt discovers that society basically does not respect forklift operators very much. His wife is an ambitious architect. His neighbor is a medical doctor. Not even Kurt's own kids seem to be very happy about their father's ...
Style: anime, mad
Audience: kids
Plot: prime minister, doctor, architect, greed, court, jealousy, millionaire, jail, hospital, truck driver, husband wife relationship, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.3
 26K
Pete's Dragon (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in ...
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dragon, children, unlikely friendships, small town, friendship, orphan, presumed dead, lighthouse keeper, family relations, love story, imaginary, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
Place: maine, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Family Circus Christmas (1979)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
Story: The family is decorating their tree when Daddy notices the star his father made is missing. When Billy asks Mommy why this made Daddy sad, she tells him it's because the star was made by his father, their Granddad, who is in Heaven. Jeffy then ...
Style: christmas special, crying
Plot: christmas, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, family relations, flying, mother daughter relationship, surrealism, little boy, basement, father son relationship, snow, imagination ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Christmas gets weird - really weird - after George and Harold go back in time to change up a few of their beloved holiday's traditions.
Style: light, humorous, captivating, feel good
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, time traveler, children, time travel, hypnosis, time jump, school principal, professor, school, disorder, boy, friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Kooky (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in ...
Style: sincere, entertaining, captivating, feel good, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: puppet, toy comes to life, toys, getting home, magical, fantasy world, magical creature, magic, forest, boy, children, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Grandma and Her Ghosts (1998)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A 5 year old kid moves to live with his grandma in a small town at Taiwan. Soon after, he discovers that her grandma is not only a vendor, but also she is good at catching spectres. One day, she comes across that her grandson has mistakenly releases ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, feel good, humorous, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ghost, supernatural, good versus evil, rivalry, village, surrealism, grandmother grandson relationship, family relations, social relations, village life, afterlife
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: taiwan, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
Style: exciting, 3d animation, entertaining, funny, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, journey, saving a life, rescue, strong female character, mistrust, greed, village, danger, comic book, insect, teenager ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister ...
Style: anime, feel good, atmospheric, sweet, touching ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: children, friendship, magical, magic, countryside, sisters, child protagonist, parents and children, young heroes, sister sister relationship, hospital, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
After School Midnighters (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Houkago Midnighters is about a human anatomical model that comes to life at midnight in a school.
Style: anime, computer animated, stylized, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: children, school, on the run, supernatural, imaginary, motorcycle chase, skeleton, trippy, chases and races, group of children, trio, motorcycle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 42K
Abominable (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.
Style: captivating, sincere, exciting, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: friendship, zoologist, yeti, family relations, creature, teenager, travel, snow, capture, quest, friends, teamwork ...
Time: year 2019
Place: mount everest, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, computer animated, stylized, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool
Plot: fantasy world, fairy, young heroes, friendship, good versus evil, destiny, heroes, disappearance, friends, youth, heroic mission, escapades ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place: africa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: With their marriage on the rocks, Fred and Wilma take a holiday together to rekindle the fire in their relationship.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: caveman, husband wife relationship, flintstones, family relations, family life, parents and children, male female relationship, lifestyle, humour, escapades, bowling, alternate history ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.3
 46K
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, not serious, slapstick, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: magical power, chase, kidnapping, children, fantasy world, talking animal, rescue, disorder, imaginary, friends, good versus evil, escapades ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, europe, new york, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A prequel to the first animated/live-action Casper feature, Casper: A Spirited Beginning introduces the friendliest ghost you'll ever know and explains how Casper met and befriended the other ghouls at Applegate Manor. After being stranded, ...
Style: slapstick, spooky, sad, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, kids, teens
Plot: youth, fish out of water, casper, haunted house, child, halloween, haunted, magic realism, single father, father son relationship, friendship, workaholic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Mickey, Minnie, and their famous friends Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto gather together to reminisce about the love, magic and surprises in three wonder-filled stories of Christmas past.
Style: anthology, christmas classics, light hearted, light, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: mickey mouse, christmas, santa claus, xmas, winter, time travel, holiday, christmas spirit, christmas season, snow, sibling relationship, cigar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Guardian Brothers (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: There's a crisis in the Chinese Spirit World -- humans don't believe in gods anymore! A Door God, facing unemployment, ventures into the human world to prove his worth, leading to unexpected encounters and transformations for humans and ...
Style: funny, captivating, entertaining, light, buddy comedy ...
Plot: god, wizards and magicians, brother brother relationship, family relations, protector, fantasy world, magic, showdown, mother daughter relationship, faith, brothers, crisis ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Toy Story 2 (1999)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, toy story, toy comes to life, toys, chase, villain, outer space, falling from height, kidnapping, little boy, anthropomorphism, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Recess: All Growed Down (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story: For the first time on DVD and video, see your favorite RECESS kids as kindergartners! Discover how the gang met with a look back at all your favorite characters when they first came to the Third Street School! The fun begins when the big kids get ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mischievous children, children, school, absurd humor, friendship, teamwork, humour, schoolboy, friends, kindergarten, group of friends, escapades
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Journey with Tarsilinha (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her own fears.
Style: 3d animation, entertaining, feel good, funny, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: memory, children, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, mother, young girl, girl, memories, travel, family relations, child, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Chicken Little (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's ...
Style: light, humorous, 3d animation, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: alien, chicken, father son relationship, friendship, young heroes, furry, parents and children, danger, rescue, alien invasion, cornfield, nobody believes ...
Time: year 2016, year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Teacher's Pet (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Spot (Lane) is a dog who can talk and read. Posing as a human, he sneaks into school with his master Leonard (Flemming). Educational adventures ensue
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, entertaining, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: mad scientist, dog, pets, transformation, school, fish out of water, wish come true, friendship, mischievous children, secret identity, young heroes, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 2004
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to ...
Style: surreal, humorous, light, colorful, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: stop motion, friendship, human animal relationship, buddies, animal, surrealism, village, farm, friends, village life, disorder, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Jimmy Timmy Power Hour (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Mayhem reigns supreme in the animated kingdom as whiz kid Jimmy Neutron and Timmy from "The Fairly Oddparents" swap places in each other's worlds.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: heroes, mad scientist, young heroes, buddies, youth, inventions and discoveries, school, crossover, inventor, misfit, switching roles, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Kibosh, supreme ruler of all ghosts, decrees that casper must scare at least one person before Christmas Day so Casper visits Kriss, Massachusetts where he meets the Jollimore family and sets out to complete his mission. As usual, kindhearted Casper ...
Style: feel good, humorous, christmas horror, sweet, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: holiday, ghost, friendship, christmas, fright, good versus evil, fish out of water, young heroes, rescue, supernatural, rivalry, misfit ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bunyan and Babe (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Travis and his sister, Whitney, visit their grandparents for the summer and fall through a magical portal which transports him to the world of American hero Paul Bunyan and his big, blue, talking ox, Babe.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, humorous, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: bull, giant, legend, myth, surrealism, sibling relationship, magic, summer vacation, land developer, grandparents, children, human animal relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Berenstain Bears (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A fun-loving family of bears whose love, loyalty and humour allows them to overcome any obstacle that finds its way down their sunny dirt road. They demonstrate time and time again that, no matter what the problem may be, the love, understanding, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sweet, educational
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: animal life, family life, mischievous children, supportive parent, disorder, parents and children, imaginary, escapades, anthropomorphic animal, friendship, bear, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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