Movies like Legend of the Spirit Dog

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Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
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Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
Style: independent film
Plot: environmental, dog, wolf, hunting, boy, spirit, helicopter, raven, toxic waste, poison, environment, dog actor, environmental issue, eskimo indian, young

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Most similar movies to Legend of the Spirit Dog

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about boy, young, dog, animal, environmental issue, environmental and family relations mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Legend of the Spirit Dog: Lad: A Dog (1962), Flint (2017), Fish Hawk (1979), Fielder's Choice (2005), Bitter Harvest (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lad: A Dog (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of the rough collie hero, Sunnybank Lad. Based on the book by Albert Payson Terhune.
Plot: animal, dog, human dog relationship, boy and dog, girl dog relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, family relations, dog actor, owner dog relationship, rescue, young ...
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Flint (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.
Plot: contaminated water, water, environmental activism, environmental, african american, environment, mother, underdog, city council, african american woman, contamination, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2015
Place: michigan
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92%
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Fish Hawk (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: boy, drug addiction, native, dog, friendship, nature, bear, redemption, sadness, farm, wilderness, dignity ...
Time: year 1979, turn of the century
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77%
Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Style: political
Plot: environmental, ecology, boss, disaster, senator, scandal, environmentalism, corruption, corporate greed, ship captain, oil industry, conservation ...
Time: year 1989
Place: alaska
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54%
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Fielder's Choice (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Phillip Fielder is a man who is struggling to rise up in his competitive career. Then his sister passes away leaving him custody of her 8 year old autistic son. Soon Fielder learns responsibilities of being a father.
Plot: autism, youth, dog, boy, competition, death of sister, advertising, ex girlfriend, airport, death of mother, father figure, ritual ...
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53%
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Bitter Harvest (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: environmental, biology, farm, contamination, ecology, family relations, family problems, environmentalism, government agency, dishonesty, hopes, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, michigan
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52%
The Time of the Hunt (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Richard's wife forces him to bring along his young son, Michel. For these men, hunting represents ...
Plot: hunting, storytelling, drinking, father son relationship, waitress, motel, redhead, violence, drunkenness, weekend, hunter, moose ...
Place: montreal
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50%
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Days Like This (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vaccuum salesman Evert makes the rounds in a suburban Stockholm apartment building, getting brief glimpses of the various tenants' lives. During the course of the day, he meets an arguing married couple, a lonely older woman and a younger ...
Plot: dog, multiple storylines, bowling, cancer, squirrel, door to door salesman, helicopter, ice cream truck
Place: eastern europe
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50%
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The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: terrorist attack, international law, environmental, spy, environmental issue, disaster, conspiracy, special agent, rebellion, terrorism, investigation, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: suburbs, society, life is a bitch, danger, criminal's revenge, fighting the system, rebellion, impossible love, school, family in crisis, suburban life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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47%
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Druid Peak (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sad
Plot: wolf, nature, animal, teenage boy, teenager, human animal relationship, animal human communication, dangerous animal, adolescence, family problems, wild animal, teenage life ...
Place: wyoming
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47%
The Raven's Dance (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself ...
Plot: nature, northern lights, farmer, owl, raven, poacher, hunter, animal, winter, moose, lake, human animal relationship ...
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47%
The Starfighters (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young Air Force lieutenant falls in love with fighter planes while his father, a Congressman and war hero, yearns for him to fly heavy bombers.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: aviation, air force, u.s. air force, military, helicopter, fighter plane, target practice, jet plane, love, pilot, u.s. military, flying ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Always Further On (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime ...
Plot: native, environmental, exploitation, murder, corruption, anthropologist, mountain, environmental issue, corrupt politician, deforestation, ecology, land grab ...
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44%
Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: italian neorealism, great ending, spirit, mountain, dog, fog, voice over narration, fugitive, shepherd, bandit, false accusation
Place: sardinia, italy
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42%
To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the touching story of an elderly widower trying to work through his grief. When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant. Sam takes the dog on a nostalgic journey which ...
Style: tear jerker, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, afterlife, widower, health, animal, death, lost love, grief, couple relations, unfulfillment, hopes, dealing with death ...
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41%
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The Best of Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Raquel, a young radio broadcaster, is deeply in love with Tomas, an Olympic runner. On the day she finds a house for them to share, he collapses during training and is rushed to the hospital. His life is in danger; his liver crashed and he is in ...
Plot: health, boy, couples, male female relationship, love, hospital, young, polaroid, hand camera
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40%
Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two (1992)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man helps his grandson readjust by giving him two hound dog puppies to care for.
Style: independent film
Plot: dog, canine, hunting, family relations, animal
Time: 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Stone Boy (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: farm, coming of age, youth, boy, grief, hunting, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: montana, usa
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39%
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5000 Blankets (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When her husband has a mental breakdown and goes missing, a determined woman and her young son set out to find him on the streets, sparking a movement of compassion towards those in need and inspiring a city.
Style: captivating, entertaining, exciting, touching
Plot: fishing, mental illness, homelessness, son, husband, family relations, mother and son, missing man, missing person, missing husband, family problems, boy ...
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38%
Ashes from the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley town in northern Spain when his camper van breaks down. There he gets to know the different inhabitants, some of them struggling to close down the ...
Plot: environmental, convention, writers, tourist, protest, civil action, male nudity, male objectification, female nudity, power cut, environmental issue, infertility ...
Place: spain
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37%
Hubertus Castle (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Plot: hunting, animal, hunter, son, narrow mindedness, girl, boy, father son relationship, children, rural setting, hill, hut ...
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37%
Amazon Forever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nicholas is a young cinematographer, shooting a documentary about the ancient tribal ritual in an Indian village near the Amazon, where he fell in love with the daughter of a chief, at the same time more and more like the side of the original ...
Plot: amazon rainforest, environmental, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare chested male, female nudity, wrestling, environmental issue, deforestation, native american, filmmaker, male objectification ...
Place: brazil
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36%
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LBJ: The Early Years (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: biopic, president, john f. kennedy, politics, usa president, rise to the top, campaign, state affairs, media, head of state, ambition, political election ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 1930s, 50s, year 1966 ...
Place: dallas texas, washington d.c., america, texas, usa
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36%
80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.
Plot: drifter, summer camp, youth, mistaken identity, gambling, blind child, police officer, stealing a car, blind boy, blind girl, suspicion, handyman ...
Time: year 1969
Place: nevada
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35%
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One Take (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life is a one take proposition. In ONE TAKE, Kevin never stopped loving Jessie even though she left him years ago and is reported to be dead. When Kevin, out-of-the-blue, receives a card in the mail - an old photo of the two of them with a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: forest, hospital, young
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35%
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Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
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33%
The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls ...
Plot: boy, night, domineering mother, surrealism, murder, girl, love, first sexual experience, thief, victim, young
Place: paris france
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33%
No One's Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating
Plot: boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, bullying, forest, wolf, coming of age, boyhood, nature, capture ...
Place: serbia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Dusty (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dog, ranch, animal, horse, horse riding, fence
Time: year 1983
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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