Movies like My Pet Dinosaur

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My Pet Dinosaur (2017)
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My Pet Dinosaur (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.
Style: sincere, exciting, suspenseful, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, friendship, teenage life, government, survival, adventurer, danger, animal life, youth, allies, escape from custody, giant monster, child, kaiju, boy, fight, kidnapping, torture, blackmail, father son relationship, adolescence, transformation, prank, secret laboratory, teenager ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, semi serious, captivating and humorous films with plots about danger, youth, escapades, heroes, friends, friendship and animal life mostly in Adventure, Family and Action genres. Some movies like My Pet Dinosaur: Dinosaur Island (2014), Kid Colter (1985), Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991), Dinosapien (2007), Castle Rock (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dinosaur Island (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The adventure begins when Lucas, a 13 year old boy, embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of ...
Style: captivating, colorful, sincere, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: dinosaur, children, lost world, time travel, kaiju, escapades, teenager, remote island, teenage protagonist, riddles and clues, obsessive quest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains tries the survival instincts of five adventurous teenagers. At first, it's all a good time. Shooting the rapids, exploring caves and making new friends. But when an accident occurs, Mother Nature ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: wolf, camp, dog, camping trip, nature, wilderness survival, camping, hiking, cave, wilderness, mountain, animal life ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Kid Colter (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A Boston boy escapes from spies and survives in the wild with tricks from his mountain-man father.
Style: exciting, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wilderness, child in peril, boy, survival, youth, mountain, kidnapping, father son relationship, parents and children, danger, confined, heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, animal, puppet, kidnapping, prehistoric animal, giant monster, heroes, imaginary, youth, danger, space and aliens ...
Time: prehistory, 1900s, prehistoric times, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 6.5
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Dinosapien (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films. Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, young heroes, parents and children, escapades, family relations, friendship, youth, danger, imaginary, dangerous animal, friends, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 4.8
 166
Castle Rock (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Left alone in the wilderness after her grandfather suffers a heart attack, a teenage girl is befriended by a mysterious drifter. Soon, she finds herself on the adventure of her life when her new acquaintance turns out to be a fugitive from justice ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, desert, survival, danger, escapades, youth, rebelliousness, teenage life, wanted, german shepherd, dog, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Elephant Tales (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of two elephant brothers, Tutu and Zef, in search of their mother, and the menagerie of wild creatures they encounter along the way. Just days after the birth of baby elephant Tutu, human hunters arrive late at night and decimate the herd. ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, sincere, touching, fairy tale
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adventurer, mischievous children, righting the wronged, family life, escapades, rescue, orphan, danger, getting home, elephant, hunter, jungle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Gamera the Brave (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a ...
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, giant bird, gamera, turtle, save the day, dangerous animal, mutant, rivalry, supernatural, escapades, danger ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Secret of Arkandias (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds. His dream seems to be fulfilled when, one day, he finds a very old and magical book in the ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, feel good, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, youth, escapades, supernatural, teenage life, best friend, magic, friendship, magical potion, heroes, friends, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Dinosaur World (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: China, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The best players from around the world are gathered to be Russell's lab rats on his new game, anything could happen. Everyone has their eyes on the prize, which will give them a second chance at life. Greed will take over friendship, allies ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Plot: monster, competition, struggle for survival, rivalry, survival, enemy, dinosaur, game, friendship, fight, greed, survival game ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey ...
Style: semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, mythical ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: environmentalism, rescue, young heroes, heroes, danger, treasure hunt, escapades, wilderness, family life, legends and myths, river, father son relationship ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: As a plea-bargain to clear their school records, a group of misfit teens ventures into the majestic but unforgiving wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves. After they encountered unexpected incident, they are aided by the ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: wolf, nature, misfit, wilderness, naturalist, friends, animal life, adventurer, escapades, survival, rescue, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Dino Dan (2010)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Join paleontologist-in-training Dan Henderson as he takes kids on a Jurassic journey to the land where lizards were as long as three school buses and terrifying T-Rex’s ruled.
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, friendship, imaginary, parents and children, suburbs, escapades, animal life, youth, family relations, society, mischievous children, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.
Style: exciting, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, disorder, save the day, criminal heroes, heroes, danger, tramp, burglar, colonel, extortion, reward, absent father ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.7
 196
Hildegarde (2001)
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A family's adventure to save one of their own - their beloved pet duck.
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, family relations, young heroes, heroes, rescue, pets, danger, family life, brother brother relationship, smuggling, bird, childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: island, youth, starting over, young heroes, tragic love, friendship, escapades, orphan, heroes, social misfits, adoption, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Wickie the Mighty Viking (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: viking, parents and children, youth, danger, rescue, young heroes, competition, children, child, knight, bully, monkey ...
Time: middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, wilderness, survival, animal, youth, childhood, friendship, young heroes, danger, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: british columbia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When ...
Style: exciting, intense, tense, serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: animal, jungle, beast, gorilla, giant animal, chase, friendship, poacher, giant monster, kaiju, transformation, dangerous animal ...
Time: 90s, jurassic
Place: africa, california, los angeles, uganda, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Against the Wild (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The action-packed feature film tells the dramatic tale of two siblings and their Alaskan Malamute, who must make an emergency landing when their small plane has engine problems. They find themselves in a beautiful but potentially dangerous natural ...
Style: sentimental, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, survival, family problems, danger, escapades, coming of age, pets, wilderness, dog, nature, childhood, cave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: lost world, heroic mission, danger, adventurer, dinosaur, daring rescue, travel, missing person, anthropologist, wilderness, prehistoric animal, reptiles ...
Time: prehistoric times, 19th century
Place: san francisco, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Joey (1997)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, meme, kangaroo, family relations, child in peril, friends, disorder, animal life, heroes, mischievous children, rescue, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: jungle book, nature, rescue, boy, hyena, tiger, animal life, friends, disorder, kids in trouble, heroes, friendship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Pirates Down the Street (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a pirate family's arrival shakes up a coastal town, the kids next door offer to help them blend in and fight a bitter rival.
Style: captivating, light, entertaining, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: pirate ship, pirate, treasure, unlikely friendships, piracy, journey, life turned upside down, culture clash, pirate captain, foe turned friend, friendship, boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Help, I Shrunk My Parents (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former ...
Style: funny, humorous, satirical, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: shrinking, parents, school, teenager, teamwork, teenage life, satire, high school life, friendship, friends, parents and children, humour ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Bigfoot (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The whole family will enjoy huge laughs and giant, hairy adventures with this touching tale about a big-hearted Bigfoot. Lost in the forest, he befriends three kids, Percy, Madison and Leonard, who are determined to protect him. When two local ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: sasquatch, friendship, rescue, friends, bigfoot, woods, danger, youth, school, captivity, rivalry, pets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 528
Famous Five 2 (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For their bicycle tour to Catmoor, the friends Julian, Dick and Anne, their cousin Georgina, called George, and her dog Timmy have long looked forward to. But the camping holiday in the countryside ends with the kidnapping of Dick, confuse the two ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, young heroes, danger, investigation, friends, coming of age, best friend, youth, escapades, kidnapping, heroes, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.6
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Isa (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Isa Reyes thinks she's a normal American teenager until her darkest dreams become reality. When she accidentally unlocks the supernatural power, she's kidnapped.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
Plot: teenage life, uncover truth, chases and races, youth, dishonesty, prodigy, danger, kidnapping, computers and web, conspiracy
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ocean, beach, dolphins, creature, animal, youth, buddies, young heroes, daring rescue, danger, escapades, pirate ...
Time: 60s
Place: bahamas, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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