Movies and TV shows like The Adventures of Shirley Holmes

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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1997 to 2000. The show was created by Ellis Iddon and Phil Meagher who had produced a successful series of books with Harper Collins, teaming up with Credo and Forefront to develop the TV series. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the series follows the life of Shirley Holmes, the great grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes who, with the help of ex-gang member Bo Sawchuk, tackles a variety of mysteries in and around the fictional Canadian city of Redington. On some occasions, she found herself matching wits with archnemesis Molly Hardy. The show has been broadcast in over 80 countries and has been dubbed in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish. Her performance in the show led to actress Meredith Henderson being nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 and winning one in 1999. The show itself was twice nominated for a Gemini Award in the category "Best Children's or Youth Program or Series" in 1998 and eventually won it in 1999. In the spring of 1998 Susin Nielsen won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program" for her screenplay of the episode "The Case of the Burning Building". In the same year, Elizabeth Stewart won a WGC Award from the Writers Guild of Canada for her writing of the episode "The Case of the Maestro's Ghost".
Style: detective
Audience: kids
Plot: sherlock holmes, missing person, amateur detective, teenager, private school, female protagonist
Time: 90s, 1990s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, captivating, suspenseful and semi serious films and TV series with plots about investigation, amateur detective, teenager, uncover truth, friendship, teenage detective and youth mostly in Family, Mystery and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Shirley Holmes: The Hardy Boys (1995), Ghostwriter (1992), So Weird (1999), Clubhouse Detectives (1997), After School is Mystery Time! (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Family, Mystery, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo is a youth-oriented action mystery television series that ran on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 1998. A total of 41 episodes of 30 minutes each were produced. Episodes were taped at the now defunct Nickelodeon Studios ...
Style: detective, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: teenage detective, children, youth, wooing, teenage life, police station, beach, jail, criminal, teenage girl, police, spy ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida
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100%
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977)
Genre: Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: amateur detective, kickass women, supernatural, brothers, children, teenage detective, nancy drew, high school, asexual, teenager, righting the wronged, investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
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59%
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The Hardy Boys (1995)
Genre: Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Junior reporter Frank Hardy and Joe, his computer-hacker brother, work together to crack mysteries.
Style: detective, juvenile
Plot: teenage detective, asexual, college, teenage boy, amateur detective
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55%
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Ghostwriter (1992)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nealon and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995. The series revolves ...
Style: detective, educational, suspenseful
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, teen fantasy
Plot: supernatural, ghost, teenage detective, multiculturalism, friendship, paranormal, teenager, amateur detective, uncover truth, imaginary, danger, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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So Weird (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: So Weird is an American television series that aired on the Disney Channel as a midseason replacement from January 18, 1999 to September 28, 2001. The series was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. In season one and season two, the series centered ...
Style: spooky, neo noir, adult cartoon, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: supernatural, teenager, paranormal, psychic, haunting, clairvoyant, super powers, middle school, magic, slice of life, halloween, missing person ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra (1983)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
TV show
Story: Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Watson.
Style: detective
Plot: sherlock holmes, love, love letter, philanthropist, soviet
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension is a spin-off of Eerie, Indiana. This series aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.
Style: anthology, spooky, detective, scary, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, paranormal, disorder, youth, investigation, imaginary, amateur detective, parallel world, teenage life, suburbs, brother sister relationship, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Clubhouse Detectives (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Late one night, Billy and Kade Ruckman see their neighbor, Michael Chambers, murder a woman, but Chambers has a story all set to convince their mother Vicky, that it was just a rehearsal scene from an opera. The only ones who can help them find the ...
Style: spooky, independent film, semi serious, detective
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: murder, amateur detective, child, coming of age, teenage detective, investigation, friendship, uncover truth, heroes, protagonist as suspect, private detective, who done it ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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After School is Mystery Time! (2012)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 39 min.
TV show
Story: A huge fan of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team, you the viewer become the story protagonist, Ryo Kirigamine, vice-president of the Young Detectives Club at Tokyo’s Koigakubo Academy. In the search for truth, each week the school club gets tangled ...
Style: detective
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman (2008)
Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Serenity Fall's favorite super sleuth is on the case again! The town is alarmed when a priceless crystal turns up missing. The only suspect seems to be a strange man living in the woods known as Shaman. It's up to Roxy Hunter (Aria ...
Style: detective, captivating, entertaining, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: girl, youth, amateur detective, investigation, friendship, mischievous children, danger, woods, shaman, dog, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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MythQuest (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as ...
Style: offbeat, humorous, smart
Audience: kids
Plot: missing person, obsessive quest, cyberspace, rivalry, legends and myths, teenage life, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, escapades, youth, heroes, villain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo (2014)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Kindaichi's best friend is involved with the school film club where members are found murdered. Can he protect her before she become the next victim?
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, detective
Plot: puzzle, fighting crime, teenager, teenage protagonist, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, genius, school, boy genius, sleuth, high school life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Detention Adventure (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Three nerdy friends and the school bully must get themselves thrown into detention to find the entrance to a labyrinth of trap-laden tunnels protecting the fabled hidden lab of Alexander Graham Bell.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: school, school bully, escapades, maze, laboratory, friends, teenage life, teenager, high school life, schoolboy, teamwork, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Moon and Me (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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Audience: kids
Plot: doll
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49%
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Movie Surfers (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Style: non fiction
Audience: kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Save Me (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
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Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, detective ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
TV show
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Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, educational
Audience: kids, family outing
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Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Ciphers (2019)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Moscow, 1956. Four women who are tied by the military past: work in the special department of the GRU, 11 years later converge again to conduct investigations and help the investigating authorities in especially complicated cases. With phenomenal ...
Style: clever, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Merlina (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: Detective agency Merlina has four members. The brains and chief is Marie-Ann Meerschaut, called Merlina by her friends. Her codename is "gemini". Her niece Ann De Schrandere is a detective at the agency. Her codename is ...
Style: detective
Plot: team, gadget, police
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
House of Anubis (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Das Haus Anubis is a children's television series produced jointly by Belgian broadcaster Studio 100 and Nickelodeon and the first remake of Het Huis Anubis aired in The Netherlands and Belgium. Another English remake called House of Anubis ...
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: secret, teenager, private detective, amateur detective, crime solving, private investigation, boarding school, investigation, riddles and clues, boarding school life, uncover truth, escapades ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Bellevue (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When a transgender teen goes missing, Annie Ryder—a cop at odds with her hometown—dives in to unravel the disappearance that suggests foul play, despite finding herself in a difficult position as she must cast suspicion on people she has known ...
Style: mysterious, detective, suspense, intense, tense ...
Plot: missing person, small town, police detective, female protagonist, danger, death, psychopath, transgender, criminal psychology, police officer, cop
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It started in 1985 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's ...
Audience: kids
Plot: 13 year old, teenager, teenage boy, diary, school, talking to oneself in a mirror
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ruby Skye P.I.: The Haunted Library (2012)
Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min.
Story: Is a ghost haunting the spooky old O'Deary Library? Teen detective Ruby Skye can't believe it. But how else do you explain the creepy shadows, the late-night noises, and the flying books!? As Ruby starts her investigation, a second mystery ...
Style: detective
Plot: librarian, teenage detective, library, ghost
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Take Hart (1977)
Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Take Hart is a British children's television show about art, presented by Tony Hart. It took over from Vision On, and ran from 1977 until 1983. The show featured Hart and the animated Plasticine character Morph, and other characters created by ...
Style: claymation
Audience: kids
Plot: little boy, art, drawing, little girl, gallery, artist, painting, clay animation
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Hardy Boys (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When the Hardy boys, Frank and Joe and their father, Fenton arrive in Bridgeport they set out to uncover the truth behind the recent tragedy that has changed their lives, and in doing so, uncover something much more sinister.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: brother brother relationship, investigation, friendship, parents and children, small town, adolescence, friendship between boys, family relations, group of friends, male objectification, teenage detective, intelligence agency ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Worzel Gummidge (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Mackenzie Crook writes, directs and stars in this new family comedy series about a scarecrow who comes to life, based on the characters created by author Barbara Euphan Todd.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Miss Sherlock (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Sherlock has a peculiar character flaw. She does not open her heart to strangers. She is Japanese, but was born in Britain. She now works as an investigation consultant for the police department. Wato Tachibana is an excellent surgeon and is guided ...
Style: detective, exciting, suspense, captivating, intellectual
Plot: sherlock holmes, murder, investigation, female protagonist, police, terrorist, peril, private detective, riddles and clues, twists and turns, talented, uncover truth ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Important Witness Private Detective (2017)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kei Maneki works as a model. He has bad luck with murder cases taking place when he works. Kei Maneki becomes an important witness in these murder cases. To clear his name, Kei Maneki and his model friends Itsuki Suo and Toma Shimon attempt to solve ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, detective, psychological
Plot: investigation, private investigator, crime solving, detective inspector, forensics, amateur sleuth, uncover truth, secret, crime investigation, amateur detective, private investigation, fighting crime ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sherlock Holmes and his intrepid companion, Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, the Boscombe Valley, an illustrious client, and a creeping man.
Style: detective, anthology, spiritual, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, investigation, victorian england, who done it, serial killer, police, spirituality, writers, private investigator, danger, rivalry ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Bodger and Badger (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
Style: slapstick comedy
Audience: kids
Plot: puppet, handyman, badger, ventriloquism, british, potato, british humour
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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