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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Style: touching, road movie, emotional, exciting, sentimental, realistic, stylized, talky, visually appealing, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: prodigy, genius, young heroes, children, coming of age, childhood, on the road, loneliness, cowboy, tragedy, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, train, adventurer, train travel, parents and children, farm, magic realism, child, father son relationship, youth, boy genius, boy, boyhood, child prodigy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place: montana, usa, washington d.c., chicago
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, humorous and realistic films with plots about family relations, coming of age, childhood, youth, boy, friendship and child mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet: Wonder (2017), Hugo (2011), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Martian Child (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
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100%
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 336K
Hugo (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style: touching, visually appealing, visual, fairy tale, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot: steampunk, orphan, filmmaking, magical, boy, street kid, friendship, robot, childhood, train crash, child, secret ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, post world war one, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: paris france, france, iran, madagascar, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, surreal, talky ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: middle school, childhood, teenager, child protagonist, high school, fat boy, bullying, boy, high school life, coming of age, child, peer pressure ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: guatemala, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 21K
Martian Child (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: foster home, foster child, bully, birth mother, social services, friendship, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, name calling, social worker, transformation ...
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Belle & Sebastian (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Belle and Sebastian is set high in the snowy Alps during the Second World War. The resourceful Sebastian is a lonely boy who tames and befriends a giant, wild mountain dog, Belle – even though the villagers believe her to be ‘the beast’ that ...
Style: touching, serious, stylized, educational, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, orphan, friends, friendship, on the road, beast, coming of age, world war two, winter, little boy, youth ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place: france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.8
 3K
Buddy (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style: light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gorilla, animal, zoo, socialite, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, jungle, kids and family, camp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: usa, chicago, new york, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 9K
Duma (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style: sweet, touching, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, preschool
Plot: wild animal, lion, wilderness, rescue, adolescence, youth, boy, bully, animal, bullying, coming of age, desert ...
Time: year 2005
Place: africa, south africa, kenya
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67%
 8.1
 438K
Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style: atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: children, coming of age, adolescence, camp, first love, boy scout, orphan, youth, island, search party, summer camp, journey ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965
Place: new england, nebraska, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney presents The Adventures of Huck Finn, starring Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns), ...
Style: gothic, road movie, epic, uplifting, juvenile ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, slavery, friendship, coming of age, childhood, racism, slave, interracial friendship, child in peril, child, river, runaway ...
Time: victorian era, year 1993, 19th century, 1840s
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
Style: feel good, hilarious, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: large family, mischievous children, family vacation, children, holiday, family holiday, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, parenthood, eccentric family, teenager ...
Time: year 2005
Place: chicago, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style: funny, touching, feel good, humorous, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, nature, adoption, wilderness, boy, hunting, juvenile delinquent, childhood, manhunt, dog, fat boy, countryside ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: new zealand, indiana, oceania, persia
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35%
 7.0
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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
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34%
 4.5
 15K
North (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to ...
Style: light, stylized, melancholic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: child protagonist, wish come true, parent child relationship, child as adult, child prodigy, child's point of view, adoption, travel, young heroes, self discovery, rebelliousness, mischievous children ...
Place: alaska, hawaii, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, new york ...
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34%
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Bingo (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, on the road, rescue, american football, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, childhood, coming of age, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Kings of Summer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, funny, emotional ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, forest, hospital, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
 8K
Madeline (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington ...
Style: touching, melancholic, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: children, kidnapping, orphan, rescue, school, girl, chase, coming of age, childhood, mischievous children, friendship, amateur detective ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 50s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, existentialism, introspection, happiness, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, loneliness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.8
 102K
The Sandlot (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style: feel good, funny, sentimental, teen, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, friendship, dog, adolescence, small town, boy, bullying, child, team, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1962
Place: utah, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 16K
The Wizard (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Corey (Fred Savage) refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special ...
Style: road movie, touching, melancholic, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, video game, competition, on the road, child, children, teenager, kids and family, underdog, computer game, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: california, nevada, utah, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: childhood, bad luck, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rascals on the Road (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four kids - Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard - leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, treasure hunt, friends, farmer, childhood, escapades, on the road, mountain, youth, leaving home, journey, boy scout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style: light, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, camp, nanny, coming of age, children, childhood, teenager, bullying, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
 6.5
 16K
Paulie (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is ...
Style: humorous, touching, sad, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: parrot, human animal relationship, animal, childhood, bird, road trip, friendship, animal rights, research, thief, welfare, life changing ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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