Movies like The Zigzag Kid

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The Zigzag Kid (2012)
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The Zigzag Kid (2012)
Original name: Nono, the Zigzag Kid
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli writer David Grossman. (TIFF)
Style: touching, realistic, serious, detective, crying
Plot: coming of age, escapades, child's point of view, family relations, self discovery, passion, friendship, husband wife relationship, youth, love, dream, rescue, father son relationship, child in peril, boy, escapism, chocolate, 13 year old, mysterious character, uncover truth, thief, police officer, train, police, party ...
Place: europe, france, holland
Keyword: jewish

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Most similar movies to The Zigzag Kid

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, boy, friends and escapades mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Zigzag Kid: Finn (2013), Finding Friends (2005), Wolf Summer (2003), I Am David (2003), Little Big Girl (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, friendship, pets, teenage life, fish out of water, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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Wolf Summer (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The young Norwegian girl Kim almost gets killed after falling from a hillside. She finds shelter and stumbles upon the territory of a wolf and her puppy. She barricades herself, but as time passes she finds the wolf less and less frightening. When ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wolf, poaching, mountain climbing, rescue, courage, friendship, parents and children, escapades, children, danger, female protagonist, strong female character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 7.1
 8K
I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Little Big Girl (2002)
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, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, family relations, children, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, coming of age, human nature, girl, teenage girl, wolf ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
War of the Buttons (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, epic, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, children, male nudity, adolescence, rivalry, youth, teacher, school, revenge ...
Time: year 1994, 60s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Skippers of the Cameleon (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: rescue, twins, friendship, friends, family relations, escapades, youth, competition, brother brother relationship, smuggling, gift, mayor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, friends, family life, mischievous children, youth, father son relationship, book, school, tree ...
Time: 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.2
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Duma (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style: sweet, touching, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, preschool
Plot: wild animal, lion, wilderness, rescue, adolescence, youth, boy, bully, animal, bullying, coming of age, desert ...
Time: year 2005
Place: africa, south africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Giants (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: youth, teenager, brother brother relationship, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, on the road, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, when the parents are away, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Carrie's War (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, bleak
Plot: evacuation, youth, world war two, coming of age, life is a bitch, teenage life, wartime life, escapades, family relations, forceful separation, friendship, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: wales, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Secret of the Cave (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Style: serious, suspenseful, touching, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, village, christian, treasure hunt, treasure hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 2K
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 ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!
Style: serious, touching, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: horse, black horse, desert, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, world war two, young heroes, rescue, survival, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Hugo (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style: touching, visually appealing, visual, fairy tale, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot: steampunk, orphan, filmmaking, magical, boy, street kid, friendship, robot, childhood, train crash, child, secret ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, post world war one, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: paris france, france, iran, madagascar, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 7.0
 3K
Regret! (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jochem is the target of bullying. David does not participate, but he dares intervene. The class teacher also does not engage., Jochem seems to attract the harassment, which gets worse every day. One morning David feels guilty. Why did he never ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sad, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: bullying, friendship, bully, coming of age, youth, high school, social relations, suicide, regret, teenage boy, teacher, boy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Yearling (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: youth, runaway, killing a pet, family relations, coming of age, animal life, power relations, friends, orphan, pets, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Someone to Run With (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, youth, self discovery, escapades, teenage life, coming of age, chases and races, hopes, missing person, judaism, nun, bully ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Taliesin Jones (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film
Plot: teenage boy, miraculous event, coming of age, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, redemption, child illness, secret society ...
Time: 90s
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.0
 8K
Flicka (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a ...
Style: talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: horse, animal, family relations, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection, siblings relations, girl horse relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 7K
Andre (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style: sentimental, touching, sad, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, youth, small town, water, wildlife, magic, human animal friendship ...
Time: year 1994, year 1962, 90s, 60s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Alfie, the Little Werewolf (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On the night of his seventh birthday, sweet Alfie suddenly changes into a white fluffy werewolf. He doesn’t understand why. Alfie struggles with himself, because the wolf at night is capable of doing things that the shy boy would not during the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: escapades, youth, coming of age, werewolf, father son relationship, nightmare, imaginary, boy, brother, father figure, transformation, bare chested male ...
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.8
 3K
Standing Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, child's point of view, coming of age, summer camp, children, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, child, on the road, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The River Within (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jason returns home to get away while he studies for the upcoming bar exam. After visiting his oldest friend, a "coulda-been-girlfriend" who is now engaged, and a pushy preacher, his easygoing summer becomes filled with unwanted drama. Over ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christian, small town, couples, family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, religions or cults, small town life, homecoming, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an ...
Style: spooky, independent film, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, orphan, alternate history, coming of age, child in peril, chase, heroes, young heroes, escapades, good versus evil, rescue, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Blue Fin (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: fishing, family relations, ocean, disaster, friends, parents and children, isolation, forces of nature, ship, friendship, danger, youth ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, orphan, friends, friendship, on the road, beast, coming of age, world war two, winter, little boy, youth ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 2K
Windstorm (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, youth, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, self discovery, stallion, disobey, horse ranch, teenage girl, black horse, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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