Movies like The Pelican Man

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The Pelican Man (2004)
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The Pelican Man (2004)
Original name: Pelikaanimies
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.
Style: fairy tale
Audience: kids
Plot: pelican, nordic, loneliness, ballet, train, escape, party, divorce, ballerina, beach, rescue, zoo, cinema, theater, single mother, flying, opera, diary, postman, little boy, prejudice, amusement park, imitation, concert, picnic ...
Place: finland

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Most similar movies to The Pelican Man

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, exciting, semi serious and feel good films with plots about friendship, rescue, danger, friends, magical, escapades and family relations mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Pelican Man: The Snow Queen (1986), Dumbo (2019), Emily and the Magical Journey (2020), Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987), Fun in Balloon Land (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Snow Queen (1986)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
Style: fairy tale, surreal, uplifting, sweet, cute ...
Audience: kids
Plot: children, magical, inspiration, queen, child in peril, witchcraft, witch, ballet, prince, ballerina, princess, snow
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Dumbo (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children Milly and Joe to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the ...
Style: fairy tale, emotional, touching, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: circus, elephant, boy, flying, train, children, family relations, experiment, wild animal, interwar period, magic realism, magical ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2019, 20th century, year 1919
Place: florida, missouri, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Style: fairy tale, light, costume drama, mystical, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: christmas, princess, fairy, female protagonist, nutcracker, christmas eve, imaginary kingdom, female villain, hopes, life turned upside down, good versus evil, magical object ...
Time: victorian era
Place: ussr, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Emily and the Magical Journey (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young girl goes on a magical journey to find happiness for her mother.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, colorful, funny, light
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: child, child protagonist, adventure hero, girl, travel, fairy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story: They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, orphan, good versus evil, danger, heroes, supernatural, parallel world, hopes, rivalry, daring rescue, kidnapping, heroic mission ...
Place: ussr, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel ...
Style: fairy tale, scenic, exciting, sweet
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: island, magic, transformation, adult child friendship, obsessive quest, fantasy world, bully, quest, adventurer, save the princess, train, daring rescue
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Fun in Balloon Land (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Sonny, the worst child actor in the history of cinema, goes to a large warehouse and plays make-believe while interacting with a number of large, creepy-looking balloons in the shape of octopi and horses and stuff. Then he leaves to watch a parade ...
Style: depressing, experimental, independent film, underground film, semi documentary ...
Audience: kids
Plot: balloon, thanksgiving, advertising, christmas, cowboy, santa claus, dream, voice over narration, parade, lobster, bedtime story
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nelly and her dog London are about to spend autumn break with her uncle Hannibal. Soon she noticed that he doesn't live a quiet life. Her uncle is a Monster agent. Nelly gets dragged in to an adventure filled with ghosts, vampires and ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, captivating, light, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: werewolf, family secret, good versus evil, secret, showdown, prejudice, supernatural power, friendship, imaginary, rescue, supernatural, fantasy world ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Polar Bear King (1991)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his father is killed, Prince Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, semi serious, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: curse, polar bear, witchcraft, king, supernatural, beauty, scandinavian culture, beauty and the beast, magical, bear, state affairs, hopes ...
Time: middle ages
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65%
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Style: fairy tale, colorful, light, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: witch, magic, imaginary kingdom, wizard of oz, good versus evil, circus, wizards and magicians, magic trick, prophecy, medieval, transformation, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, 1900s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Nim's Island (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style: exciting, scenic, captivating, sad, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: island, little girl, young heroes, exotic island, imaginary friend, writers, family relations, single father, danger, scientist, jungle, poacher ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: fictional island, san francisco, patagonia, pacific ocean, indonesia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Karlsson on the Roof (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
Style: humorous, touching, stylized
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: nordic, european, working class, friends, imaginary, supernatural ability, youth, family relations, mistrust, brother, little boy, friendship ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
Style: mysterious, independent film, serious, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, pinocchio, magical, rescue, stop motion, friends, family relations, curses spells and rituals, friendship, parents and children, escapades, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s, 17th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by ...
Style: scenic, entertaining, exciting, witty, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: treasure hunt, ship, survival, pirate, fantasy world, heroic mission, rescue, friendship, race against time, danger, daring rescue, adventurer ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 60s, 1850s
Place: australia, south america, new zealand, latin america, chile ...
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: fairy tale, exciting, funny, romantic, light
Audience: family outing
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, witch, good versus evil, legends and myths, magic, magical, medieval, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, winter, sword fight, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, future, year 1940, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Red Riding Hood (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, grindhouse, independent film, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, magical, twins, self discovery, friends, family relations, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, legends and myths, woman in danger, siblings relations, parallel world ...
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51%
The Golden Compass (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: fairy tale, epic, visual, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: fantasy world, steampunk, magical, journey, witch, alternate reality, orphan, parallel world, polar bear, imaginary, adventurer, heroes ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: england, london, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the ...
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Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
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Charlotte's Web (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Style: fairy tale, inspirational, touching, light, emotional ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers ...
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49%
Santa Buddies (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Puppy Paws (the fun-loving son of Santa Paws) gets bored, he finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. When the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt however, and ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Into the West (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Style: surreal, crying, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, stallion, magic realism, children, childhood, chase, hunting, redemption, magic, storytelling, drinking, children in wartime ...
Time: year 1992
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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48%
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, sweet, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: monarchy, sent to the future, friendship, friendship between girls, portal, escape, magical, female friendship, time portal, russian history, time travel, clothes shopping ...
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Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, epic, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: mythology, monster, youth, fantasy world, heroic mission, young heroes, greek mythology, legends and myths, demi god, superhuman powers, friendship, greek ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, youth, chase, st. patrick's day, holiday, magical creature, kidnapping, car chase, mental institution, gnome, raccoon ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Thief Lord (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, orphan, imaginary, friendship, young heroes, magic, youth, police, escapades, secret, supernatural, child ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Paddington (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: kids and family, bear, children, animal, adoption, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, goofy hero, childhood, animal life, heartwarming, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Journey to the Christmas Star (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, mysterious, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: winter, imaginary kingdom, friendship, curses spells and rituals, little girl, long lost daughter, xmas, snow, christmas, nordic, new year, christmas season ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 42K
Pinocchio (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A live-action adaptation of Disney's 'Pinocchio'.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: puppet, child, father son relationship, lie, pinocchio, children, father child relationship, seagull, fox, toy comes to life, puppeteer, metamorphosis ...
Time: 2020s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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