Movies like Digger

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Digger (1993)
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Digger (1993)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, dog, friendship, boy, family relations, parents, father son relationship, heart disease, psychic, mother son relationship, young
Time: year 1993

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, touching and feel good films with plots about family relations, coming of age, friendship, boy, youth, father son relationship and friends mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Digger: Aquila (1997), I Didn't Do It! (1999), Me and the Kid (1993), The Handcuff King (2002), My Dog Skip (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aquila (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
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Story: Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. It ...
Audience: kids
Plot: children, cave, spacecraft, skeleton, best friend, child protagonist, invisibility, friendship between boys, british, boy, family relations, archeological dig ...
Place: wales
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I Didn't Do It! (1999)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been invited to spend a vacation at the Hotel Nautilus by his friend Vincent's parents. This is a ...
Plot: coming of age, father son relationship, friend, boy, friendship, hotel, family relations, house, children, summer camp, fictional war, lake ...
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53%
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Me and the Kid (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely and emotionally neglected rich kid forms an attachment to one of the men who kidnap him during a botched robbery of his father's safe.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, family relations, kidnapping, police, brooklyn bridge, youth, ford mustang, car theft, millionaire, allergy, con man, wealth ...
Time: year 1993
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37%
The Handcuff King (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Plot: family relations, childhood, leukemia, friendship, death, father son relationship
Time: 70s
Place: eastern europe
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33%
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My Dog Skip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, friendship, animal, youth, children, world war two, human animal relationship, baseball ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Turn Right by the Yellow Dog (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fair point, considering the father happens to be dead! Philip is a successful architect with little or no time for his 16-year-old son. When his own father dies, Philip suddenly realises the pain of having been abandoned years ago. Enter Karl, a ...
Plot: family relations, theater, garden, retirement home, flying, father son relationship, dog, funeral, death, broken arm, cigar smoking
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32%
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To See the Sea (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays and Thursdays his father leaves the house. When confronted ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, suspense, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot: boy, bully, bullying, friendship between boys, childhood, child, coming of age, found footage, abused child, adoption, secret, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
30%
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Rubber Tarzan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on ...
Plot: working class, family relations, children, bully, loneliness, school, boy, father son relationship, bullying, friend, friendship, abuse ...
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, biting ...
Plot: coming of age, children, unrequited love, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, prank, parents and children, eccentric family, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: canada, quebec
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30%
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Angels Sing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Mister Twister: Class of Fun (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on the highly popular series of children books comes the cheerful film-comedy Teach! chronicling the funny misadventures of a young intern teacher at an elementary school.
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, boyhood, family relations, teacher, school, dog, sandwich, hiking, director, school trip, blackboard, dictation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Dog of Flanders (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large ...
Style: sentimental, entertaining, inspirational, tear jerker, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, justice, life philosophy, destiny, friendship, coming of age, countryside, boy dog relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, drawing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boy and dog ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1999
Place: antwerp, flanders
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28%
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 ⇓
27%
The Boy in the Dress (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Based on David Walliams' best-selling children's book, with an all-star cast including Jennifer Saunders, James Buckley, David Walliams and Kate Moss, The Boy in the Dress is a celebration of creativity, difference, football and fashion. ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot: contests and competitions, friendship, parents and children, cross dressing, disorder, eccentric family, youth, sport team, coming of age, family relations, transvestite, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, inspirational, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, journalism, children, coming of age, youth, school, teacher, family relations, life philosophy, follow your dream, family life, american girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1934
Place: ohio, cincinnati ohio, usa, chicago
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27%
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Simon Birch (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, illegitimate son, friendship, destiny, disability, family relations, small town, justice, happy ending, life philosophy, obsessive quest, buddies ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
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 ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, friends, family life, mischievous children, youth, father son relationship, book, school, tree ...
Time: 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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13: The Musical (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Bar Mitzvah boy from Manhattan comes to terms with his family's move to the Midwest.
Style: teen comedy
Plot: teenage boy, coming of age, social differences, divorced parents, based on broadway musical, moving, love, dance, parents, singing, rabbi, small town ...
Place: indiana, new york
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26%
The 4th Floor (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all.
Style: touching, captivating, disturbing, sincere, educational
Audience: teens
Plot: cancer, boy, coming of age, friendship between boys, friendship, doctor patient relationship, prank, teen angst, hospital, solidarity, human spirit, optimism ...
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26%
Nanhe Jaisalmer: A Dream Come True (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A childhood encounter with actor Bobby Deol leaves an indelible mark on the mind of Nanhe who idolizes the actor.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, surprise ending
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, youth, family relations, wedding, illiteracy, schizophrenia, desert, fan, camel, actor playing himself
Time: 21st century
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25%
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A Tiger's Tail (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A boy goes on an adventure of a lifetime when Luna, a baby tiger cub, escapes from an animal sanctuary and follows him home. It is up to one boy, his friend, and his dog to return Luna to her home before she destroys his parents' home.
Style: sincere, light, sweet, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot: boy, friendship, best friend, mischievous children, house, pet dog, parents, zoo, girlfriend, youth, dog, father son relationship ...
Place: california
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25%
Babysitters Beware (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, when the parents are away, nanny, mischievous children, parents and children, disorder, youth, save the day, rivalry, friendship, little boy, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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25%
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It Runs in the Family (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, nothing goes right, love and romance, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, year 1994
Place: indiana
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24%
The Invisible Thread (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay couple, gay father, gay relationship, coming of age, gay parent, gay interest, friendship, love, family values, teenage boy ...
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24%
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Baba Joon (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti ...
Plot: boy, farm, father, farmer, israeli, coming of age, father son relationship, immigrant family, family relations, hebrew
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23%
Finding Friends (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, friendship, pets, teenage life, fish out of water, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time: 21st century
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23%
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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 ⇓
23%
You'll Be a Man (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Despite their age difference, the two becomes best friends, helping each other ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: adult child friendship, youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friends, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, mental illness, teenager, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Little Crumb (1999)
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: rotterdam netherlands
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23%
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