Movies like Forever Young, Forever Free

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Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)
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Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)
Original name: e’Lollipop
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story: "e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village where they become best friends as Jannie finds his place in his new home. Life is full of childhood fun and antics until tragedy strikes: Jannie, now 10 years old, is seriously injured. In the face of much adversity, Tsepo and his community pull together so that Jannie can get specialised medical treatment. A daunting challenge lies ahead... At what cost will Jannie survive? Tsepo and Jannie’s inspirational story unfolds against the breathtaking backdrops of a dramatic African landscape and New York City in the mid-1970s. "e’Lollipop" is a life-changing story that reminds us of the true value of friendship, community, sacrifice and family - despite our color or creed.
Plot: youth, best friend, childhood friend, dog, friendship, apartheid, interracial friendship, afrikaans, injury, tire, childhood friends
Place: africa, new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and feel good films with plots about youth, friendship, family relations, friends, dog, pets and coming of age mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Forever Young, Forever Free: Saving Shiloh (2006), Negerkys og labre larver (1987), Miracle Dogs (2003), Smitty (2012), Where the Red Fern Grows (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saving Shiloh (2006)
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, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
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Negerkys og labre larver (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Dette er en historie om to piger på 11 år. Nana, som har en hund, men som egentlig bare drømmer om være en anset ballerina, og Conny, der er tvunget til at gå til ballet, men som har et brændende ønske om at være berømt dyrlæge. Hvad vil ...
Plot: dog, parents, teacher, hospital, school, party, girl, friend, wedding, friendship, marriage, family relations ...
Place: denmark
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Miracle Dogs (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals.
Style: serious, feel good, touching, cute
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, against the odds, young heroes, human spirit, optimism, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, miraculous event, heroes, pets, cancer ...
Place: usa
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74%
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Smitty (2012)
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, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
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62%
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Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
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: semi serious, touching, feel good, gothic, sad ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, family relations, contests and competitions, animal, hunting, wilderness, american history, canine, animal lover ...
Time: 1930s
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Hand in Hand (1961)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never." Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live ...
Style: independent film
Plot: imaginary friend, youth, little girl, friend, friendship, little boy, religion, catholic, children, anti semitism, jewess, boy girl friendship ...
Time: year 1961
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52%
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Little Crumb (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb (Ruud Feltkamp). His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien (Thekla Reuten) ...
Plot: homeless, youth, children, dutch history, hopes, adoptive mother, family relations, orphan, orphanage, boy, dog, father son relationship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: rotterdam netherlands
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50%
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large ...
Style: sentimental, entertaining, inspirational, tear jerker, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, justice, life philosophy, destiny, friendship, coming of age, countryside, boy dog relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, drawing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boy and dog ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1999
Place: antwerp, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Shiloh (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to ...
Style: sweet, touching, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, animal rescue, pets, youth, animal, greed, destiny, hopes, friendship, heroes, disorder, family relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
When I Find the Ocean (2006)
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: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, hopes, pets, estrangement, family life, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: alabama, usa
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48%
Aussie and Ted's Great Adventure (2009)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Aussie, a lovable Australian mutt, embarks on a mission to return his young owner's missing Teddy Bear.
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, friendship, talking dog, rescue, heroes, getting home, family relations, youth, danger, mischievous children, young heroes, pets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, australia
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48%
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, human animal relationship, pets, mischievous children, family life, disorder, parents and children, reincarnation, animal, animal lover, adoption ...
Place: usa, new york
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46%
The Sweetest Gift (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, interracial relations, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, racism, friends, injustice, single mother ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida
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44%
Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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42%
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Rascal (1969)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: family relations, youth, animal, camping trip, camp, nature, camping, best friend, adoption, fish out of water, child as adult, parents and children ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: wisconsin
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Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, odd couple, young heroes, against the odds, rescue, pets, mischievous children, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s
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We Can Be Heroes! (2002)
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
Plot: youth, children, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, strong female character, european, bullying, soccer, hopes, personal growth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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38%
Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, anthology
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, animal, animal life, youth, real life, puppy love, furry, friends, family relations, friendship, dealing with death, pets ...
Time: victorian era, year 1961, 19th century
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland
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37%
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Falkenberg Farewell (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friend, small town, childhood friend, relocation, summer, society, nihilism, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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36%
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Alabama Moon (2009)
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, date night, teens
Plot: wilderness, best friend, boy, friendship, coming of age, orphan, life turned upside down, father son relationship, friends, youth, adventurer, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
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36%
How to Survive Myself? (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rosa is thirteen. She is sensitive, creative and has a sense of humor. But she is also good at worrying, dissatisfied with her appearance, insecure and shy. Rosa's mother wants to live together with her new boyfriend, so they move to Groningen, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, family relations, lifestyle, youth, high school life, parents and children, friendship, interracial friendship, teenage girl, teenage love, stepfather ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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36%
Adventures of Dally & Spanky (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.
Style: touching, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, friendship, pony, family relations, unlikely friendships, internet, death of father, trick
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35%
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The Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of a ten-year-old girl left alone in her house in the summer of 1981.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: youth, childhood, coming of age, countryside, friendship, friends, introspection, peer pressure, regret, home alone, hopes, when the parents are away ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, africa, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Storm (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Drengen Freddie elsker hunde og hader hundemishandlere. Så da han ser en mand på gaden være rigtig modbydelig mod sin hund, tager han affære og kidnapper hunden, som han giver navnet Storm. Freddie gemmer Storm på sit værelse, for hans far vil ...
Style: serious, touching, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, pets, animal life, family relations, friends, youth, father son relationship, elementary school, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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34%
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
Style: sad, depressing, emotional, epic, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dog, youth, great depression, childhood, camping, camp, soul searching, animal, camping trip, canine, coming of age, friendship ...
Time: 1900s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, usa
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33%
Lassie's Great Adventure (1963)
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: independent film, serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, lassie, nature, youth, rescue, risk, animal life, wilderness, hopes, escapades, pets, heroes ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Summer With The Ghosts (2003)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada, Austria
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young girl and her new friend investigate a series of supernatural happenings in the Austrian children's film SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS. Caroline departs from her home in Montreal to join her father a famous film director on the set of his ...
Plot: youth, seeing ghosts, haunting, haunted castle, lake, mountain lion, castle, nun, ghost, singing, friendship, dog
Place: europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
An American Girl Holiday (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from ...
Style: touching, fairy tale, feel good, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly
Plot: rich and poor, master and servant, christmas, friendship, young heroes, teenage life, orphan, uncle niece relationship, family relations, american girl, society, youth ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Summer's End (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with local prejudice and racism.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: racism, youth, social justice, friendship, small town, interracial relations, family relations, friends, social relations, family problems, society, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: youth, friendship, bullying, american girl, family relations, family life, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, occupation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota
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32%
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