Movies like The Borrowers 2011
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The Borrowers (2011)
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Family adventure based on Mary Norton's classic children's books about a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards, resourcefully surviving by borrowing bits and pieces from the large residents who dwell above. After being discovered by 'human beans', borrower Arrietty and her parents are forced to leave their home while attempting to evade the clutches of obsessive scientist Professor Mildeye.
Style:
touching, humorous, not serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
little people, youth, fish out of water, misfit, family relations, parents and children, escapades, disorder, eviction, imaginary, friendship, christmas, magical creature, humanoid, discovery, grandmother, family, adventure
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe
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Most similar movies to The Borrowers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, family, family relations, friendship, friends, disorder and parents and children mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Borrowers: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Paddington (2014), Two Worlds (2007), Twigson (2009), Geppetto (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, cute, intense, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
youth, inventor, shrinking, childhood, dog, mother daughter relationship, teen angst, scientist, teenage girl, neighbor, ant, rescue ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
little people, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, mischievous children, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, rescue, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, Costa Rica
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
kids and family, bear, children, animal, talking animal, adoption, anthropomorphic animal, goofy hero, childhood, animal life, furry, heartwarming ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, england, europe, peru
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, fast paced, dramatic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
fish out of water, chosen one, parallel world, imaginary, escapades, goofy hero, time travel, disorder, misfit, imaginary kingdom, travel, alternate world ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Tough, naughty, quick-witted and brave Lillebror has just moved, and has not made any new friends yet, when his imaginary friend – the wooden twig Knerten – appears in the middle of a pile of firewood...
Style:
humorous, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, countryside, odd couple, mischievous children, disorder, eccentric family, imaginary, parents and children, friendship, imaginary friend, friends, youth ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe
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842
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style:
stylized, humorous, feel good, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
puppet, youth, pinocchio, father son relationship, fairy, family relations, mischievous children, young heroes, parents and children, friendship, escapades, miraculous event ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers ...
Style:
anime, touching, fairy tale, visually appealing, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teen drama, preschool
Plot:
friendship, midget, tiny, little people, cat, daring rescue, friends, self discovery, runaway, magical, tragedy, mysterious character ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, seattle, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
Style:
stylized, touching, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
european, nordic, working class, friends, youth, supernatural ability, imaginary, prank, amusement park, fire, criminal, boy ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Australia, Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Me and My Monsters the story of the Carlson family who have recently relocated from Australia to the UK to discover there are three out of control hilarious monsters living in their basement.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, friendship, family life, parents and children, disorder, youth, boy, creature, puppet, friends, siblings relations, voice over narration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
FINN ON THE FLY is a madcap comedy filled with wild chases, mistaken identity and young romance.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
mad scientist, science runs amok, friendship, experiment gone awry, mischievous children, family relations, disorder, misfit, pets, getting home, escapades, boy and dog ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Svensson family goes on a ski-vacation during the winter holiday. Sune, the family flirt girl-charmer, is yet again pulled into a difficult relationship and his father Rudolf is pushed into difficulty parent challenges while the little brother ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disorder, siblings relations, family relations, youth, resort, nothing goes right, family vacation, friendship, vacation, parent child relationship, parents and children, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While on location in a spooky Italian villa with his Hollywood big-shot mom and her dorky boyfriend, twelve-year-old Kevin befriends a Renaissance-era girl ghost who helps him cause unrest on the set.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, youth, children, childhood love, friendship, parents and children, supernatural, misfit, hopes, mischievous children, young heroes, friends ...
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
This family comedy based on David Walliam's best-selling book tells the story of Chloe, who sees Mr. Stink every day, but has never spoken to him. Before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual friend hiding in her garden shed. As it turns out that ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, youth, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, christmas, conservative, homeless, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
human becomes animal, halloween, dog, magic, best friend, youth, curses spells and rituals, family relations, friendship, stupid kid, danger, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. He is the only one in the butler school course to pass, because ...
Style:
feel good, not serious, humorous, touching, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
school, family relations, couples, love and romance, parents and children, power relations, disorder, misfit, single parent, goofy hero, infidelity, fish out of water ...
Similarity:
50%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in San Ernesto, California with only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden needs to rescue a young reindeer from a zoo.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
santa claus, christmas, holiday, fish out of water, fall in love, escapades, daring rescue, race against time, dishonesty, love and romance, hidden identity, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
40%
428
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Austria, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
yeti, friends, family relations, friendship, youth, escapades, young heroes, parents and children, woman, bigfoot, mountain, mother child relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
himalaya, germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Little Brother has moved with his family, and a stick son has seen the day of light, but there is no new friends.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, touching, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, imaginary friend, friends, imaginary, family relations, odd couple, youth, parents and children, disorder, mischievous children, heartwarming, child protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A Grandpa with a magic Shrinking Cap that only his grandson Jason knows about. When he puts the cap on Grandpa shrinks and creates comic mayhem, but somehow Grandpa and Jason always manage to save the day. It’s teamwork!
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, lighthearted, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
grandfather, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, youth, misfit, children, magic, grandson, teamwork, friendship, magical object ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dog, youth, friendship, against the odds, young heroes, odd couple, fish out of water, adoption, parents and children, disorder, rescue, mischievous children ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, light
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
rivalry, inventions and discoveries, friendship, mad scientist, imaginary, good versus evil, youth, disorder, adult child friendship, family relations, identical twins, flying man ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
39%
561
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Iep! is about Viegeltje, who looks like a girl but has wings in stead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine decide to keep Viegeltje and to raise her like an ordinary girl. But Viegeltje ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi serious, contemplative, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
self discovery, parents and children, eccentric family, family relations, friendship, physical appearance, disorder, youth, adoption, mischievous children, bittersweet, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
afterlife, youth, dentist, supernatural, hopes, young heroes, heroes, family life, friendship, legends and myths, family relations, childhood ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, independent film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
friends, exploitation, love affair, kids and family, family relations, travel, disorder, misfit, getting home, mischievous children, rivalry, orphan ...
Place:
australia, china
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
VAMPIRE DOG is a feature length family film about finding courage and discovering that you belong. Ace, a 12-year-old boy is new in middle school. His grandfather from Transylvania passes away at the ripe age of 99, and sends him his dog, Fang, to ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
vampire, youth, dog, pet dog, boy and dog, imaginary, talking animal, college, stupid kid, pets, school, children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, reindeer, youth, mischievous children, mistaken identity, fish out of water, child as adult, young heroes, family life, parents and children, disorder ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mischievous children, elementary school, rebellion, friendship, young heroes, lifestyle, disorder, parents and children, teachers and students, misfit, hardcase students, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Schools out and Fred Figglehorn's dream of water slides, horseback riding and monkey butlers during the summer turns into a nightmare of gruel and poisonous berries when his mom signs him up to an unsanitary camp.
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, freeze frame ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens
Plot:
summer camp, friendship, teenage life, misfit, goofy hero, underdog, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, disorder, society, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
637
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, follow your dream, disorder, mischievous children, friends, family relations, hopes, switching roles, parents and children, holiday, xmas ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, washington d.c.
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
youth, parents and children, camp, treasure hunt, family life, siblings relations, friends, family relations, woods, obstacle course, jealousy, embarrassment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
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