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The Treasure Seekers (1996)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the E. Nesbit novel set in turn of the century England.
Widower and father of five, Richard Bastable has only days to save his family home and stave off financial ruin.
While he is desperately hoping his latest invention - a refrigeration machine - will be his salvation,
his children set about finding their own solutions to the family's impending disaster.
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, youth, treasure hunter, invention, father son relationship, female doctor, strong female character, inventor, doctor, family relations, single father, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, widower, poetry, loan, deputy sheriff, newspaper editor, manuscript, refrigerator, pit, female director
Time:
future
Place:
england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about family relations, youth, father son relationship, boy, friendship, family life and girl mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Treasure Seekers: Kayla: A Cry in the Wilderness (1997), Carrie's War (2004), The Railway Children (1970), Little Crumb (1999), Necessary Parties (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in the 1920s, this film tells the poignant and inspiring story of Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell), a boy whose explorer dad disappeared on an expedition to the Arctic tundra. Unable to make friends, adjust to his new Canadian home or get along with ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
treasure hunt, youth, treasure hunter, rural setting, harassment, bullying, emotional abuse, insult, arctic, dog sled, explorer, missing father ...
Time:
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Place:
quebec
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Chris Mills goes to court to prevent his parents from ending their marriage.
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Julie, a lonely fourteen year old girl, moves to Manzanita, an Oregon seaside town, from Los Angeles after her writer father, Robert, loses his job. Her family, including mother Kathryn and older sister Susan, has trouble adjusting to life in a ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
treasure hunt, family relations, ancient mystery, adventurer, family life, haunted by the past, small town, youth, young heroes, escapades, coming of age, danger ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
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Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn ...
Style:
serious, offbeat, stylized
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Plot:
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441
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
grandparent grandchild relationship, elderly, family relations, unlikely criminals, youth, grandfather grandson relationship, ballroom dancing, boy, heist, jewel thief
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Story:
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and ...
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby & Dingan, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Tom accidentally travels back in time through a fireplace in a ruined farmhouse he meets May, an orphan who needs help. Now that he knows his friends' fate and his own, he will try to reorder the events and change their history.
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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.
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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