Movies like A Dog Named Duke

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A Dog Named Duke (2012)
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A Dog Named Duke (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A homeless vet leaves his dying dog and best friend, Duke, on the doorstep of a clinic. The dedicated staff nurse Duke back to health, and then launch a campaign to locate the vet and re-unite him with his best pal.
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, pets, clinic, homeless, war veteran, therapy, family relations, parents and children, father daughter relationship, adoption, massage, loyalty, motor home, adolescence, nightmare, gift, cell, veterinary clinic, handyman, medical examination, baby girl, embarrassment, father daughter reunion, human dog relationship, male bonding ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, california, sacramento california

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Most similar movies to A Dog Named Duke

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and touching films with plots about family relations, dog, pets, youth, disorder, friends and animal mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like A Dog Named Duke: Puppy Love (2012), Marley & Me (2008), My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011), Chilly Christmas (2012), Change of Plans (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Marley & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of ...
Style: touching, sad, feel good, funny, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, pets, animal, couple relations, life, parenthood, marriage, couples, friendship, family relations, children, family life ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: miami, ireland, usa, florida, pennsylvania
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67%
My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: University professor Madeline Walters isn’t doing too well in the dating game. Good men are hard to find, so she’s happy spending time with her Maltese puppy Cinnamon, and her precocious teenage daughter Chloe.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, pets, save the day, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, single parent, nothing goes right, friendship, rivalry, talking dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Chilly Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friend, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Change of Plans (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: custody, adoption, parents and children, life turned upside down, couple relations, disorder, family life, couples, youth, orphan, girl, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, odd couple, young heroes, against the odds, rescue, pets, mischievous children, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s
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39%
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First Dog (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A foster boy is befriended by a lost dog who turns out to belong to the President of the United States. The boy decides to run away from the foster home to return the canine to the White House -- "Because it's the right thing to do!"
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, president, boy, boarding school, on the road, youth, couples, child, society, usa president, animal, childhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, washington d.c.
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37%
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, human animal relationship, pets, mischievous children, family life, disorder, parents and children, reincarnation, animal, animal lover, adoption ...
Place: usa, new york
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37%
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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 ⇓
35%
A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, looking for love, family relations, wedding, pets, fall in love, couples, disorder, family life, xmas, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Air Bud 3 (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer (real football) player and fatherhood. Loaded with laughs and cool soccer action, Buddy teams up alongside U.S. women's ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, sport team, golden retriever, soccer, ambition, friendship, rivalry, best friend, contests and competitions, family relations, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Retrievers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the Lowry Family moves from New York to Placerville in California, a golden retriever comes to their house. The family starts to take care of her and the retriever, now named Pilot, has puppies. They give all of the puppies away, but later ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: golden retriever, dog, family relations, puppy, family life, pets, pet dog, lost dog, animal human communication, dead animal, animal, kids and family ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Rent-a-Kid (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, children, dog, orphan, siblings relations, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, parenthood, new year, child hero ...
Time: 90s
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32%
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, father daughter relationship, family relations, widower, friends, parents and children, pets, disorder, family life, single parent, mischievous children, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Gabe the Cupid Dog (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine companion Gabe, and his boss, Ms Andrews, wants to send him to London to open an office. But first Ms ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: disorder, pets, fall in love, obsessive quest, wooing, nothing goes right, escapades, parents and children, talking dog, dog, animal, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Dog Named Christmas (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, adoption, boy dog relationship, animal, pets, holiday, family relations, friendship, social relations, society, social issues ...
Time: 50s
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Uncle Nino (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family gatherings, family life, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Finding Rin Tin Tin (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most famous animal star in Hollywood history.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, touching, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, world war one, german shepherd, family relations, escapades, rising to stardom, animal life, danger, daring rescue, save the day, battle zone, filmmaking ...
Time: 1910s
Place: france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Golden Winter (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: golden retriever, christmas, youth, dog, heist, friendship, disorder, talking dog, family relations, friends, narration, bank robbery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Hounded (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot: dog, teenage boy, mischievous children, teenage life, eccentric family, nothing goes right, young heroes, family life, pets, rivalry, youth, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
The Wedding Chapel (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Uninspired and newly single painter Sara is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes involved in the efforts to save a local church which is in danger ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: self discovery, starting over, idealism, fighting the system, love and romance, hopes, society, redemption, fall in love, small town life, social relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Harvest Moon (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When her family goes bankrupt, privileged city girl Jen Stone travels to the country to try and fix up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father bought as an investment to get her money back. Not everyone is on board with her changes, least of all ...
Style: humorous, captivating, touching, light, feel good
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: family business, father, brother brother relationship, bankruptcy, widower, chores, farm, love and romance, family relations, friendship, holiday, country music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Bannister family including former K-9 police hero Zeus (voiced by Mario López) is back, and this time they're spending their holidays at a beautiful Rocky Mountain resort. But toss in an unexpected visit from cocky Uncle Randy (Casper Van ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, animal life, save the day, pets, holiday, love, destiny, christmas season, xmas, animal, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Mary Christmas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, fall in love, wish come true, parents and children, birth mother, television reporter, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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26%
Dr. Dolittle: The Final (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maya Dolittle can talk to animals. She gets discovered and Tiffany Monaco, a Hollywood star, brings her to L.A. to help her little puppy, who turns out to be a boy.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: dog, hollywood, pets, showbiz, disorder, celebrity culture, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, supernatural, kids and family, fish out of water ...
Place: usa
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26%
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The Santa Con (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, moral dilemma, parents and children, family relations, wish come true, introspection, store, santa claus, love, friendship, new year, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An all-new Disney holiday classic is born - Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups. Starring a brand-new litter of the cutest talking pups ever - Hope, Jingle, Charity, and Noble - it's perfect for the whole family. When Mrs. Claus travels to Pineville, ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, light ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, santa claus, christmas, pets, family relations, disorder, stowaway, animal life, friends, youth, family gatherings, christmas spirit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Bach and Broccoli (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, adoption, uncle niece relationship, organist, car accident, family relations, young heroes, pets, youth, self discovery, nursing, estrangement ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Lassie (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, France, Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sad ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, rescue, friendship, parents and children, getting home, lassie, animal, youth, christmas, little girl, meme ...
Time: year 2005, 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe, england, scotland, yorkshire, scottish highlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Abner, the Invisible Dog (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied teen stumbles into possession of a top-secret government formula that turns his dog invisible and gives it the power of speech.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, pets, suburbs, birthday, when the parents are away, stupid kid, invisibility, friends, inventions and discoveries, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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