Movies like The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes

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The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
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The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Andy and his friends take a pair of x-ray goggles from a secret lab by mistake.
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, high school, stepfather, adopted son, research facility, teenager, children, military, love triangle, bully, villain, conspiracy, family relations, laboratory, outcast, kennedy assassination, james bond spoof, voyeur, eye, responsibility, group of friends, teenage boy, respect, moral dilemma, psychedelia ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about family relations, youth, teenager, escapades, imaginary, disorder and heroes mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes: Spy Kids (2001), Santa's Boot Camp (2016), Prehysteria! 3 (1995), Explorers (1985), Underdog (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spy Kids (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of ...
Style: exciting, intense, teen, action adventure, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: young heroes, spy, children, mad scientist, espionage, heroic mission, fantasy world, chase, secret agent, good versus evil, fight scenes, mentor ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, chile, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naughty brothers Zip and Zap finds themselves in a home for lost children that might just be haunted. Will they ever escape?
Style: stylized, fairy tale, atmospheric, entertaining, whimsical ...
Audience: kids
Plot: brother brother relationship, parents and children, family relations, child in peril, mentor, monster, fantasy world, destiny, good versus evil, fake identity, disappearance, transformation ...
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Santa's Boot Camp (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When kids become so bratty and self-centered that Santa's elves go on strike, Santa, in desperation, must bring six unscrupulous youths to his boot camp to help save Christmas.
Style: entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, spoiled brat, elf, santa claus, children, teenage boy, theft, adventure hero, teenager, xmas, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style: humorous, surreal, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: children, espionage, child spy, mad scientist, fantasy world, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy, villain, animal, scientist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Prehysteria! 3 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The dinosaurs help young Ella and her family save their mini-putt business.
Style: gay cinema
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, kaiju, golf, monster, giant monster, miniature golf, family relations, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, uncle niece relationship, parent child relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.4
 24K
Explorers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 4.8
 23K
Underdog (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, superhero, teenager, talking dog, single father, good versus evil, animal, genetics, justice, experiment, rescue, fighting crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Invisible Sister (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: halloween, high school, popular girl, sister, teenager, sisters, sister sister relationship, invisible, invisibility, witchcraft, teamwork, experiment gone awry ...
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 5.0
 778
Remote (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Randy (Chris Carrara), is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles across the hideout of three prison escapees. With the use of his remote control toys, Randy manages to apprehend the three fugitives.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, when the parents are away, prodigy, family relations, fugitive, disorder, inventions and discoveries, cons and scams, teenage life, isolation, friendship, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Moscow: Cassiopea (1974)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Start of nterstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: time dilation, coming of age, psychedelia, time travel, children, extraterrestrial life, teenager, space travel, teenage love, outer space, soviet, text messaging ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will ...
Style: surreal, feel good, entertaining, absurd, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: fantasy becomes reality, shark, fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, child protagonist, superhero, heroes, imaginary friend, imaginary, coming of age, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.6
 2K
Prehysteria! (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, single parent, kaiju, stop motion, prehistoric animal, giant monster, kids and family, monster, family relations, museum, youth, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1993, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: virtual reality, video game, spy, mad scientist, child spy, rescue, technology, brutality, mission, save the world, escapades, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Little Monsters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style: light, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, fish out of water, wish come true, imaginary ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.0
 6K
Zapped (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, teen, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, chick flick
Plot: high school, youth, teenage life, teenager, high school life, social relations, mean girl, wish come true, imaginary, teen romance, half brother, magic spell ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two boys follow in their late fathers foot steps by inventing weird and wonderful gadgets. Trouble lies ahead when after a halloween party the spirit of their father ends up in the latest invention, a robot.
Style: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids, teen fantasy
Plot: robot, teenager, youth, ghost, father, family relations, seance, halloween party, halloween, father son relationship, reporter, brother brother relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.6
 99
James Batman (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An evil syndicate is set to conquer the world, and the mission is to stop them from fulfilling their viscious plans. The consequences of their failure may mean the destruction of all dissenting countries who stand in their way. All countries must ...
Style: spoof
Plot: superhero, spy, espionage, cold war, batman, super villain, spying, weapons, ransom, heroes, terrorism, villain ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Up, Up, and Away! (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: youth, good versus evil, save the day, young heroes, daring rescue, master villain, danger, escapades, rivalry, eccentric family, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 5.1
 62K
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. ...
Style: light, humorous, entertaining, not serious, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, kids and family, talking animal, chase, animal, rescue, good versus evil, goofy hero, heroes, danger, master villain ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.5
 2K
Spy School (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
Style: feel good, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, spoof
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: child spy, kidnapping, secret agent, conspiracy, eavesdropping, spy, teenage protagonist, mistrust, escapades, conspiracy theory, president, fighting crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.1
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Prehysteria! 2 (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A rich boy desperate for attention makes friends with the dinosaurs of "Prehysteria!". Prehysteria! 2
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, kaiju, monster, youth, giant monster, governess, toy train, rich, family relations, stop motion, wealth ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.3
 39K
Major Payne (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, absurd, clever ...
Audience: kids, manly, teens, teen drama
Plot: military, children, military life, foul language, sarcasm, teacher, soldier, violence, disorder, stupidity, mentor, teaching ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Aliens Ate My Homework (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a tiny intergalactic starship crashes into the bedroom of middle-schooler Rod Allbright, he is enlisted by the extraterrestrial Galactic Patrol, a group of out-of-this-world lawmen, and must race to save the world from Total Planetary Disaster ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: alien, friendly alien, alien encounter, teenager, alien contact, escapades, alien creature, alien technology, fate of humanity, alien invasion, spacecraft, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Thirteenth Year (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, touching, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: mermaid, teenage life, adopted son, danger, misfit, escapades, disorder, friends, parent child relationship, transformation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 3.6
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Munchie (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The ever hungry and funny Munchie is back in this sequel to "Munchies".
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: creature, monster, desire, youth, exploitation, friendly alien, buddies, gremlin, puppet, family relations, mad scientist, magical power ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 14K
Snow Day (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a school in upstate New York is snowed in, a group of students hi-jack a plow to keep the school closed..
Style: feel good, humorous, melancholic, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: snow, love triangle, chase, youth, school, teenage girl, mischievous children, high school, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, swimming pool ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s
Place: new york, antarctic, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Not Quite Human (1987)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, cyborgs, love affair, science and technology, new world, androids, family relations, high school, social relations, power relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. ...
Style: anime, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: sonic the hedgehog, speed, villain, furry, wedding, friendship, superpower, emerald, sidekick, human alien relationship, human animal friendship, superhero ...
Time: 2020s
Place: hawaii, seattle, montana, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 25K
Descendants (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen ...
Style: fairy tale, exciting, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot: teenager, teenage protagonist, good versus evil, fairy godmother, happy ending, high school, villain, imaginary kingdom, witchcraft, imaginary, moral dilemma, island ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Style: funny, intense, light, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: youth, childhood, inventor, shrinking, parents and children, neighbor, survival, rescue, mother daughter relationship, genetically altered, kids and family, stop motion ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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