Movies like Mia and the White Lion

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Mia and the White Lion (2018)
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Mia and the White Lion (2018)
Original name: Mia et le lion blanc
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, Monaco, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Style: captivating, sincere, scenic, inspirational, exciting
Audience: kids
Plot: wild animal, teenage girl, lion, animal rescue, conservation, lion cub, picnic, teenager, family farm, christmas present, broken promise, tough girl, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, strong female character, saving a life, husband wife conflict, animal, nature, best friend, wilderness, coming of age, foreigner, environment, environmental ...
Place: north africa, south africa, africa
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, sincere, captivating and feel good films with plots about friendship, animal, youth, family relations, friends, teenage girl and escapades mostly in Family, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Mia and the White Lion: Duma (2005), The Legend of Longwood (2014), A Dog's Way Home (2019), The Call of the Wild (2020), Flicka (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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The Legend of Longwood (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious Black Knight, who regularly haunts the sleepy Irish village. With courage and a sharp mind, she ...
Style: captivating, exciting, sincere, light
Audience: kids
Plot: white horse, castle, girl horse relationship, legend, curse, courage, inheritance, accident, friendship, gift, boy, fight ...
Place: ireland
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100%
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
Style: sweet, sentimental, scenic, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, adult
Plot: dog, puppy, pitbull, animal, pets, best friend, road trip, on the road, pet dog, snow, lost dog, animal life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: colorado, denver colorado, new mexico
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The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After her grandfather's death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home - a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable ...
Style: feel good, sincere, disturbing, entertaining, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: lion, wolf, human animal relationship, dangerous animal, animal, animal human communication, human animal friendship, friendship, friends, animal training, animal that acts human, animal lover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Call of the Wild (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Style: captivating, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, survival, dog sled, wolf, snow, gold rush, danger, friendship, wolf pack, animal, grizzly bear, gold ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era, 2020s
Place: alaska, yukon
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Flicka (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a ...
Style: talky, realistic, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: horse, animal, family relations, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection, siblings relations, girl horse relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, wyoming
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Windstorm (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, youth, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, self discovery, stallion, disobey, horse ranch, teenage girl, black horse, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Windstorm 2 (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Summer vacation. Mika is overjoyed to see Ostwind again. But then she discovers strange wounds on the belly of Ostwind, for which no one has an explanation. Yet this is Kaltenbach verge of bankruptcy! With a heavy heart Mika decides to participate ...
Style: captivating, sincere, teen
Plot: horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, teenage girl, equestrian, horse ranch, human animal relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, parent child relationship, horse race, grandmother granddaughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
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Black Beauty (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A modern retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic novel, Black Beauty explores the heartfelt story of 15 year-old Audry who makes the discovery of a lifetime whilst volunteering at a city animal shelter. Rescued from an abusive owner and recovering from ...
Style: sincere, light, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: girl horse relationship, horse, teenage girl, friendship, equestrian, family relations, salvation, recovery, couples, summer, faith, animal abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Wolf Summer (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The young Norwegian girl Kim almost gets killed after falling from a hillside. She finds shelter and stumbles upon the territory of a wolf and her puppy. She barricades herself, but as time passes she finds the wolf less and less frightening. When ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wolf, poaching, mountain climbing, rescue, courage, friendship, parents and children, escapades, children, danger, female protagonist, strong female character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, uplifting
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: animal rescue, killer whale, family relations, friendship, confined, captivity, heroes, mischievous children, young heroes, ocean, orca, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa, australia
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100%
Winter's Daughter (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose existence her parents have kept secret until now. For 70-year-old Lena it's a journey ...
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, tragic past, teenage boy, little boy, car trouble, winter, christmas eve, best friend, new year's eve, translator ...
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100%
The Journey Home (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, Italy, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In northern Canada, a young boy sets a goal for himself to to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother. Goran Visnjic joins the cast as Muktuk, a half Inuit and half Canadian, who knows the terrain where the polar bears live and who ...
Style: light, sincere, touching, captivating
Audience: girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: polar bear, winter, human animal relationship, bear, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, friendship, hopes, adaptation, love, escapades, animal ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Windstorm 3 (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, sincere, light, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, horse ranch, stallion, horse race, freedom, teenage girl, friendship, self discovery, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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100%
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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
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100%
Return to Nim's Island (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make ...
Style: humorous, exciting, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, kids, teen fantasy, family outing
Plot: animal rescue, island, danger, teenage life, environmentalism, family relations, save the day, escapades, friendship, poacher, treasure hunt, treasure hunter ...
Place: fictional island, australia
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100%
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Heidi (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, ...
Style: sincere, scenic, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, friendship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, children, kindness, salvation, female protagonist, strong female lead, death of mother, grandmother granddaughter relationship, royal family, found footage ...
Time: victorian era
Place: alps, germany, swiss alps, switzerland, europe
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Cheetah (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: poacher, cheetah, jungle, animal, coming of age, human animal relationship, teenage life, runaway, cat, child, survival, nature ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, kenya, california, usa
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Fly Away Home (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: goose, rescue, aviation, bird, father daughter relationship, single father, environmental, animal, childhood, heartwarming, tragedy, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: canada, new zealand, north carolina, new york, ontario canada
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100%
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Andre (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style: sentimental, touching, sad, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, youth, small town, water, wildlife, magic, human animal friendship ...
Time: year 1994, year 1962, 90s, 60s
Place: maine, usa
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100%
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Free Willy (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: human animal relationship, freedom, animal, killer whale, friendship, animal life, animal training, kids and family, whale, happy ending, ocean, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: astoria oregon, portland oregon, oregon
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100%
Lena and Snowball (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lena, a troubled youth takes a white lion cub under her wing; little does she know the lion escaped from criminals intended to take the cub to an evil trophy hunter named Ben Percy.
Style: sincere, feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental
Audience: kids
Plot: animal life, lion, family drama, animal training, lion cub, animal, happy ending, parenthood, starting over, family relations, coping, bittersweet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Pride (2004)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river.
Style: captivating, semi serious, sincere, colorful
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: lion, family relations, survival, rescue, danger, wilderness, young heroes, escapades, coming of age, hopes, getting home, death in the family ...
Place: africa
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100%
A Christmoose Story (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on the best-selling novel, A CHRISTMOOSE STORY brings to life the tale of an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a large, talking moose. Young Max has low expectations for his first Christmas after his parents’ divorce, when suddenly ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, save the day, friendship, escapades, coming of age, disorder, friends, santa claus, boy, gift, talking animal, new year ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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100%
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Free Willy 2 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, sweet, retro ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: killer whale, whale, friendship, childhood, animal, human animal relationship, rescue, daring rescue, kids and family, greed, ecology, water ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: astoria oregon, usa
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100%
Rocca Changes the World (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
Style: captivating, entertaining, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: bullying, homeless, teacher student relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, space program, teenager, children, home alone, father daughter relationship, female bully, social change ...
Place: germany, hamburg germany, northern germany
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Eight Below (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, breathtaking, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: survival, dog, wilderness, expedition, rescue, dog sled, pets, snow, husky dog, animal, winter, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 90s
Place: antarctica, astoria oregon, antarctic, new zealand, oregon ...
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.
Style: action adventure, uplifting, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: nature, wilderness, bear, survival, treasure hunt, animal, youth, camp, camping, treasure hunter, scenery, camping trip ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
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100%
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Black Beauty (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
Style: sexy, sincere, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: girl horse relationship, horse riding, wild horse, horse ranch, horse, horse race, horse trainer, female protagonist, teenage boy, uncle niece relationship, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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