Movies like A Girl of the Limberlost

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A Girl of the Limberlost (1990)
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A Girl of the Limberlost (1990)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage girl living in 1908 rural Indiana attends high school despite her mother's fierce opposition of her life, the friendship of a free-spirted older woman helps her stick to her goals.
Style: retro
Plot: woman, friendship, photographer, teenage girl, family relations, farm, poverty, single mother, mother daughter relationship, swamp, thunderstorm, violin, widow, naturalist, high school, single parent, death of father, department store, cornfield, violinist, car, 16 year old, teen angst, teenage angst, child's point of view ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place: indiana

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Most similar movies to A Girl of the Limberlost

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, feel good and serious films with plots about family relations, friendship, youth, mother daughter relationship, friends, teenage girl and girl mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like A Girl of the Limberlost: Mermaid (2000), The Challengers (1991), The Sweetest Gift (1998), The Railway Children (1970), Smitty (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mermaid (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Challengers (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After her father dies and she moves to a new town, Mackie wants to join a certain gang/band. But they've got this boys-only rule. So Mackie comes up with an audacious plan...only it begins to backfire.
Style: independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: child, grief, talent show, gender bender, single parent, gender, child's point of view, ice cream, summer, new house, river, children ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Greatest Store In The World (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternitive place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, single mother, van, girl, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, homelessness, burglar, doorman, store ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Railway Children (1970)
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: emotional, touching, feel good, semi serious, family saga ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenage girl, child's point of view, countryside, train, friendship, railway, children, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, missing person ...
Time: edwardian era, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1900s ...
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Amour d'enfance (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This feature length entry from shorts director Caumon deals with a turbulent mother and son relationship in a rural setting.
Plot: rural setting, son, director, mother, hunting, cancer, farm, friendship, violence, love triangle, death of father, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Looking for Miracles (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Ryan Delaney has won a scholarship, but it's not a full one, so he needs a summer job to pay for his university expenses. And although he's not eighteen, he can't swim, and has never been to camp, he manages to get a ...
Style: crying
Plot: coming of age, summer camp, summer job, social justice, siblings, snake, single parent, country club, graduation, broom, 16 year old, hardship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1935
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Bridge to Terabithia (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
Style: crying, independent film, psychotronic
Audience: kids
Plot: children, drawing, youth, love, bereavement, art, death, boy girl friendship, woods, young boy, imagination, guilt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Our House (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Our House is an American television drama series that aired on NBC for two seasons from September 11, 1986 to May 8, 1988. The series centers on the Witherspoon family and the challenges they face adjusting to life with three generations living in ...
Style: retro, sitcom, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: single mother, family relations, single parent, family drama, in-laws, youth, family life, parents and children, little girl, mother daughter relationship, boy, dog ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
50%
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Silver Bells (2005)
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: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, family relations, museum, father son relationship, photographer, family problems, couples, relationship problems, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, christmas romance ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, humorous, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, family gatherings, couples, husband wife relationship, mountain, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, equality ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Lantern Hill (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1935 Toronto, Jane Stuart's mother has taken ill, and the two of them have temporarily moved in with her rich, snobbish grandmother, where Jane is verbally abused and her mother bullied. Jane is forced into a private academy, in which the ...
Style: crying
Plot: supernatural, house, gossip, driving, pet dog, orphan, old woman, letter, train station, dream, farm, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1935, 1930s
Place: nova scotia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: school, discrimination, escapades, missing person, siblings relations, solace, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, apprentice, mother daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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A Piggy Tale (1991)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Story: Dolly, a lovely, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents, she was sent to her parents' friend, Mrs. Chu's care. When Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great ...
Plot: family relations, pig, father son relationship, surrogate family, animal, girl, orphan, husband wife relationship, death of father, friendship, friend, death of mother
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Moondance Alexander (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style: feel good, realistic, serious, sincere
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, friendship, ambition, young heroes, follow your dream, obsessive quest, human spirit, against the odds, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Place Called Home (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.
Style: captivating, light, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, manipulation, small town, estate, parents and children, con artists, teenage girl, escapades, friendship, love, aging, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Alan & Naomi (1992)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But despite Naomi's strange behavior and the language barrier, they slowly develop a deep and touching ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, youth, children, grief, couples, family relations, friendship, haunted by the past, misfit, against humanity, human nature ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
My Dog the Champion (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Champion is a "diamond in the rough" story about a dog named Scout, a cattle dog who decided she didn't like herding cattle. Scout's owner, Billy, a rancher struggling to stay in business, pegs her as a useless, broken tool and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, teenage life, friends, family relations, youth, rivalry, social misfits, ambition, heroes, society, parents and children, farm ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Girl Like Grace (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Raised by a single mother, a bullied 17 year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.
Style: captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, lesbian, lgbtq, bullying, social problems, single mother, teenage life, family problems, single parent, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Homecoming (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in. Based on the novel by Cynthia Voigt.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, siblings, homeless, adoption, poverty, grandmother, estrangement, family relations, family problems, misfit, hopes, family life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot: single mother, widow, father son relationship, death of father, death, accident, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, love, loss of father, family relations, loss of husband ...
Time: 1910s
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Christmas Angel (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young girl tries to prove that the mysterious old lady next door is really an angel, when some of the neighborhood kids’ Christmas wishes. Olivia is not like most fifth graders. She is being raised by Melinda, a single mother who works at a ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious, christian film
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot: holiday, single parent, youth, christmas, wish come true, friendship, parents and children, family relations, friends, christmas eve, faith, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Painted House (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, survival, nature, farmer, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place: arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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