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The Gifted One (1989)
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy can transfer his body energy into ESP and heal sick people. While the subject of scientists' studies, he runs away to try to find out about his past and why he is the way he is.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
boy genius, ufo, youth, super powers, flying saucer, superhuman powers, healing power, dog, village, police, scientist, schoolboy, kidnapping, quest, map, baseball, car chase, doctor, hospital, cemetery, teenage girl, childhood, best friend, kindergarten, bus ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place:
arizona
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Most similar movies to The Gifted One
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, tense and melancholic films with plots about coming of age, youth, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, supernatural and dog mostly in Fantasy, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Gifted One: Galaxy Games (2022), Pound (1970), A Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987), Dreamwood (1972), Wonder Woman (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of young adults are sent to a faraway planet to compete in the prestigious Sol Invictus games. When disaster strikes and the teams are stranded without equipment or communication, they must work together to survive long enough to be rescued.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
alien planet, group, teamwork, stranded, survival, space, teenage boy, space and aliens, planet, alien life-form, alien creature, teenager ...
Similarity:
95%
381
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
Style:
controversial, grindhouse, experimental, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot:
dog, absurdism, animal shelter, satire, captivity, confined, animal life, sex in a chair, che guevara, map, chauffeur, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
Style:
crying, talky, enigmatic, harsh, ironic ...
Plot:
opera, father daughter relationship, dead body, father, statue comes to life, child, waitress, rolls royce, riot, death of mother, guardian, old woman ...
Place:
budapest, australia, japan, argentina, iraq ...
Similarity:
94%
174
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
children, symbolism, quest, isolation, island, journey, haunting, minimalism, minimal dialogue, ritual, male nudity, moon ...
Similarity:
93%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Style:
saga
Plot:
wonder woman, superhero, comic book, heroes, comic hero, woman with a gun, feminist, superpower, snake, pretty woman, expatriate, sexism ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Eve quits the rat race and heads to a cabin to rediscover herself. She promptly falls for her dynamic new next-door neighbor, Danni. As they grow close, Danni confesses she is a witch but reveals another ghostly secret threatening to destroy their ...
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, suspense, tension, emotional ...
Plot:
witchcraft, ghost, lgbtq, lesbian, witch, supernatural romance, lesbian romance, secrets, self discovery, isolation, introspection, cabin in the woods ...
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
Plot:
body swapping, high school, body swap, child as adult, youth, switching roles, disorder, misfit, parents and children, family life, fish out of water, odd couple ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Determined to win the respect of his people and the love of his life, Teela; Malik, The Wizard of Stone Mountain, makes a bargain with a demon to wield great power. It is up to the heroic warriors to save Malik from himself when the demon takes ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
wizard, sword fight, sword and sorcery, magic, demon, love, strength, supernatural power, super powers, save the day, warrior, zombie ...
Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed.
Style:
independent film, non-linear, tense, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, youth, life is a bitch, mind game, doctors and patients, investigation, assassination, uncover truth, rivalry, secret identity, dishonesty, family relations ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, vermont
Similarity:
91%
619
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Mexico, Germany, Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, tense
Plot:
father and daughter, island, pacific island, pacific islander, young woman, father, island life, young girl, daughter, remote island, torture, sorcery ...
Time:
1880s, 19th century
Place:
chile, pacific ocean
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life ...
Style:
teen, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, body swap, child as adult, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, childhood, housewife, school, dysfunctional family, women, mother, switching bodies ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, turkey, california
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Otherworld is an original story and mystical tale inspired by Celtic mythology and Irish legends. One of the most fascinating characters in Celtic mythology, the Warrior Lugh, crosses Woodland heading to Tara to join the court of King Nuada and ...
Style:
folk tale, mystical, atmospheric, lyrical, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
celtic, legend, magic, mythology, supernatural, pagan, legendary hero, fae, haunting, quest, sorcery, magical creature ...
Time:
medieval times
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark fantasy, gothic, experimental ...
Plot:
halloween, hansel and gretel, stop motion, adaptation, macabre, stepmother, evil stepmother, witch, woods, surrealism, robot, puppetry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When the great sorceress Kae is captured by a mysterious enemy, her young followers devise a plan to rescue her.
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, dark, mystical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rescue mission, necromancer, sword and sorcery, sorceress, tower, rescue, sorcery, sorcerer, magical power, witchcraft, magician, magical ...
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. This is the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, intense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, danger, corrupted ruler, master warrior, escapades, hopes, heroes, rivalry, legends and myths, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sorcery ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Horror/Comedy that takes place in a movie theater as patrons watch the trailers of B Movie trailers.
Style:
suspense, tension, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, killer, fear, murder, murderer, killing, killing spree, claustrophobia, violence, single, survival ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
Style:
avant garde, homoerotic, aesthetic, transgressive, explicit ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, sex, unsimulated sex, gay, gay interest, male nudity, occult, ritual, gay subtext, lgbt, sex scene, art ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Girl Witch Bibi Blocksberg and her best friend Tina have adventures on a horse ranch...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, stylized
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
nobility, friendship, mischievous children, teenage life, wizards and magicians, youth, imaginary, supernatural ability, best friend, disorder, contests and competitions, sorcerer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
89%
32
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
Style:
allegory, art film, art house, experimental, poetic ...
Plot:
beach, humanity, conflict, companionship, minimalism, vanity, ritual, nudity, gift, good versus evil, symbolism, female nudity ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this modern adaptation of Rapunzel, a young girl who has lived her entire life in a room catered by her mother, the infamous scientist Dr. Gothen, must come to terms with her reality in order to expand her horizons.
Style:
romantic, dramatic, fairy tale, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, beauty, uncover truth, deception, relationships, female protagonist, love, coming of age, self discovery, fall in love, brawl, illness ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Casper dreads to start at a new daycare, but when he arrives he meets Emma who has a stuffed animal that can come to life. From that day Casper and Emma are best friends.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, light hearted, cute, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot:
friendship, pets, best friend, friends, youth, family relations, kindergarten, parents and children, coming of age, children, innocence, childhood ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In an isolated small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sylvia's teenaged life of juggling two boyfriends and an overprotective father is turned upside down when she discovers she has a bizarre virus which has randomly plagued the women in her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, small town, supernatural, survival, self discovery, teenage love, youth, danger, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, mutant ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, light, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
spell, witch, scarecrow, imaginary, supernatural, teenage love, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, wizards and magicians, secret, painting, pagan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta ...
Style:
melancholic, humorous, satirical
Plot:
showbiz, comedian, fame, biopic, hollywood, celebrity, entertainment industry, behind the scenes, screenwriter, rise and fall, glory, marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, london
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, female protagonist, adolescence, teenage life, relationships, friends, supernatural ability, teenager, teenage protagonist, girlfriend, relationship problems, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eddie, a fourteen-year-old juvenile delinquent of sorts, collides with a car during a petty theft and dies in the hospital. Due to some confusion in heaven, however, he is given three days to clean up his life with the help of a beginner angel - and ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
heaven, teen rebel, juvenile delinquent, youth, guardian angel, divorced mother, bad influence, divine intervention, death, theft, fire, handgun ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1969, a young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown of Ludlow, Maine behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to Ludlow.
Style:
period piece, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, dead animal, supernatural power, town, mythology, supernatural being, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, zombie, cemetery, violence ...
Time:
60s, 17th century, year 1969
Place:
maine
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
Style:
light, comedy drama, light hearted, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot:
body swapping, body swap, switching roles, switching bodies, school, transformation, childhood, christmas, youth, longing, skull, teenager ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
Style:
fairy tale, lighthearted, sentimental, romantic comedy
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
princess, identity, twins, royalty, body swapping, castle, class differences, happy ending, palace, mistaken identity, heroine, rags to riches ...
Time:
medieval times
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
family relations, isolation, sick mother, parents and children, family problems, youth, coming of age, teenage runaway, teenager, psychic power, psychic, abusive father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
87%
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