Movies like Jimmy, the Boy Wonder

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Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966)
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Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A boy makes a reckless wish, and everybody in the world stops moving. A wizard's daughter tries to help him get the world restarted again.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: mind power, brain, psychokinesis, psychic power, devil, boy, stopped time, daughter, wish fulfillment, telekinesis, telepathy, telepath, world, part animation

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Most similar movies to Jimmy, the Boy Wonder

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, semi serious, feel good and psychotronic films with plots about boy, girl, children, singing, family relations, youth and christmas mostly in Family, Musical and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Jimmy, the Boy Wonder: Healing Hands (2010), Jack and the Beanstalk (1970), Polly: Comin' Home! (1990), Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical (2020), The Ideal Husband (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Healing Hands (2010)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A near death experience gives a young man, engaged to be married, the ability to heal people.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric
Plot: healing power, mind power, true love, changing lives, visceral, road not taken, saving a life, love affair, love and romance, social relations, prodigy, religion ...
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95%
Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with "groovy" dialogue.
Style: fairy tale, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: jack and the beanstalk, surrealism, marriage, cow, giant, family relations, harp
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Polly: Comin' Home! (1990)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Plot: black, orphan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Radio City Christmas Spectacular (2007)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is an annual musical holiday stage show presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The show features over 140 performers, lavish sets and costumes and an original musical score. The 90 minute revue ...
Plot: christmas, dance, dancing, bear, angel, ballet, deer, orchestra, flying, donkey, toy soldier, shepherd ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Musical (2020)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A musical version of the classic story of the mean spirited Grinch who plots to steal Chirstmas from Whoville
Plot: christmas, stage musical, spying, holiday, book, breaking the fourth wall, christmas eve, mistaken identity, christmas present, burglar, christmas spirit, change of heart ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Ideal Husband (2011)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An NFL player sidelined by a debilitating injury finds his marriage in jeopardy when his wife learns of a past discretion that causes her to question his character. Devin (Darrin Dewitt Henson) and Tracey (Shanti Lowry) are ecstatic over the ...
Style: emotional, humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: couple relations, pregnancy, couples, love and romance, hopes, infidelity, ambition, redemption, athlete's life, unfulfillment, power relations, crumbling marriage
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Wee Sing: Grandpa's Magical Toys (1988)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story: Join Peter, Sara, and David on their visit to Grandpa's. When Grandpa leaves the room, the magic begins. The children shrink to toy-size, then meeting Grandpa's Toys. Meet Punchinello, the clown a muffin man, a farmer, some Scottish ...
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: toys, grandfather granddaughter relationship, brother sister relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, toy comes to life, child protagonist, interracial friendship, magic, brother brother relationship, miniaturization
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Sneakerella (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity for sneakers. With a little ...
Style: satirical, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cinderella story, designer, store, friendship, teenager, cinderella, subculture, lifestyle, direction and purpose, music, satire, culture shock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Cirque du Soleil: Dralion (2001)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Chinese consider the lion a symbol of good luck, so it's a half-dragon, half-lion – a dralion – that is the symbol of the East-meets-West fusion of this performance in which 36 Chinese acrobats join the renowned Canadian troupe. ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, exciting, stylized
Plot: circus, juggler, arts and culture, artists and showbiz, live performance, juggling, acrobat, spectacle, cirque du soleil, acrobatics, concert, music ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
Style: grindhouse, funny, christmas classics, hilarious, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: star wars, holiday, space opera, galaxy, space station, disco, exodus, asperger's syndrome, new year, thanksgiving, christmas season, star trek ...
Time: 70s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Jillian's Travels: Africa (2012)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Viewers will take a trip into the heart of Africa, and become immersed in a spectacular world where wild animals seem so close you can touch them.
Style: colorful, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: children, animal, travel, girl, boy, diary, safari
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Style: psychotronic, urban fantasy
Plot: coming of age, renaissance, dwarf, ranger, first love, gnome, supermarket, carpenter, knight, magical power, forest, invisibility ...
Place: eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Tiger Rising (2022)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Rob Horton discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home, his imagination runs wild and life begins to change in the most unexpected ways. With the help of a wise and mysterious maid, Willie May and the stubborn new girl in ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: tiger, boy, human animal relationship, friendship, animal, teenager, animal human communication, friends, nature, woods, children, novel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Glitterball (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers.
Style: offbeat, grindhouse, retro, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: boy, coming of age, extraterrestrial, alien, spacecraft, spaceship, best friend, friendly alien, child, children, child protagonist, criminal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Oliver's Ghost (2011)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Oliver has a unique ability to see "full-bodied apparitions," otherwise known as ghosts. When his family moves from the bustling city to an older home in the suburbs, only Oliver is able to see the spirit of Clive Rutledge ...
Style: sincere, captivating, semi serious, light
Plot: haunted house, school bully, ghost, boy, attic, new house, family relations, unlikely friendships, suburbs, relocation, youth, bike ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: An Irishman, Finian, and his daughter Sharon, arrive in Rainbow Valley, a Southern town of tobacco sharecroppers in the state of Missitucky. The town has its own resident dreamer, Woody, who thinks that he might be able to put the town on the map by ...
Style: retro, political, semi serious, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: racism, broadway, dancing, st. patrick's day, small town, desire, father daughter relationship, gold, deaf mute, leprechaun, holiday, magical creature ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Final Approach (2005)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ricky is a ten-year-old daydreamer and expert on his computer flight simulator program. While on a cross-country flight for a school field trip, Ricky gets the uneasy feeling that his plane is about to be hijacked!
Audience: teens
Plot: child hero, boy, boy hero, aviation, air disaster, friendship, youth, airplane, disaster, die hard, adolescence, young boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Shapeshifter (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alex Brown inherits the awesome task of saving his ex-secret agent parents and protecting the planet from evil powers bent on controlling the world's plutonium supply. To do this Alex uses his new found magical shapeshifting power.
Style: exciting, serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mind power, psychic power, brain, psychokinesis, shapeshifting, spy, gypsy, plutonium, kidnapping, teenage life, wizards and magicians, family relations ...
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1983)
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.
Plot: thief, treasure, treasure chest, arabian nights, genie
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
How to Beat a Bully (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a new kid named Cory moves to town, he's picked on by the school bullies. To protect himself, he doesn't use his fists-he uses his brain instead! He scares the bullies off by fibbing that his father is a hit man for the mob. Word ...
Style: funny, entertaining, captivating, exciting, family comedy
Plot: youth, bully, schoolboy, mafia, mafioso, school, bullying, family relations, boy, boyhood, father and son, father
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Crescent Gang (2023)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When five kids learn they are leaving the only home they've known the new kid forms a hopeless plan. With their friendship hanging in the balance, a group of kids embarks on a high-stakes scavenger hunt in Las Vegas. The kids endure a quirky ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, light, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, boy, adventurer, girl, childhood, friend, friends, adventure hero, mischievous children, group of friends, children
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Cannon Movie Tales: Rumpelstiltskin (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, captivating, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: mermaid, magical, elf, legends and myths, imaginary kingdom, wish come true, rescue, imaginary, master and servant, danger, love and romance, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Summer Magic (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: widow, family relations, mysterious character, young lovers, starting over, love and romance, parents and children, family life, youth, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: maine, usa, europe, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Monsters at Large (2018)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex decides to end his kid brother's nightmares by forming a task force to take care of imaginary monsters. When their business becomes a hit, nothing can go wrong...until one of the monsters turns out to be real, and really big.
Style: captivating, semi serious, entertaining, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: nightmare, ghost hunter, teamwork, monster, escapades, magical creature, friends, friendship, brother brother relationship, supernatural being, supernatural
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: See Storybook Characters Come to Life! Hear Beautiful Songs! Laugh at the Rag Doll! Be thrilled, amazed, and just plain dumbstruck by this kooky kiddie klassick from Mr.Gore himself, HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS!
Style: grindhouse, children's story, fairy tale, independent film
Plot: bird, christmas, santa claus, stage play, surrealism, illusion, magic trick, levitation, filmed play
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place: germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Trico Tri Happy Halloween (2018)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A family moves back to Miami to take care of its widowed abuela. After moving into a haunted house, the family learns the intentions of the ghosts that inhabit it.
Style: scary, psychotronic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: halloween, ghost hunter, haunted house, ghost, halloween party, demon, peril, paranormal phenomena, revenge, supernatural power, creature, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure (2023)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Barbie’s younger sister Skipper is a babysitting expert, but when her babysitting business hits a snag, she takes a summer job at a water park and tries out different jobs with some new friends. A birthday party at the park goes awry and ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, entertaining
Plot: barbie, female protagonist, babysitting, children, boy, nanny, adventure hero, child, little boy, girl, amusement park, airplane ...
Place: malibu california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Catalina Caper (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: beach, caper, underwater, music and dance, teenager, criminal, group, exploitation, scuba diving, beach party, bikini, scroll
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Super Capers (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses no super powers must join a team of misfit heroes-in-training known as The Super Capers. Having only faith, Gruberman must travel through time to uncover an evil plot involving some gold bullion, a ...
Style: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero spoof, good versus evil, heroes, superhero, fighting crime, superhuman powers, rivalry, master villain, henchman, mind power, psychic power, brain ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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