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Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)
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Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)
Original name: Il était une fois… la Vie
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: France, Japan, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Il était une fois... la vie is a French animated television series which tells the story of the human body for children. The program was originally produced in France in 1987 by Procidis and directed by Albert Barillé. The series consists of 26 episodes and originally was aired on the French channel Canal+, and then on the state owned channel FR3. It is the third part of the Once Upon a Time... series. Once Upon a Time... Life reintroduced the edutainment formula that had been left out on Once Upon a Time... Space. The series combined entertaining storylines with factual information, presented metaphorically. The series Once Upon a Time... Life used the same characters from the other Once Upon a Time... seasons: the good characters represent the cells that make up the body's systems and defense mechanisms, such as red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, while the bad characters represent the viruses and bacteria that threaten to attack the human body. Every episode of the series featured a different organ or system within the human body. In the French-language version of the series, the opening theme song "la Vie" was performed by Sandra Kim, the winner of the 1986 Eurovision contest.
Style: fairy tale, retro, anime, serious, captivating, educational, 2d animation
Audience: kids, toddlers, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: occupation, bacteria, escapades, society, wise man, imaginary, wisdom of life, human nature, dedicated educator, virus, biology, blood, cell, anthropomorphism, human, family
Keyword: educational film, preschoolers, body

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, feel good and semi serious films and TV series with plots about friendship, friends, escapades, anthropomorphism, imaginary, anthropomorphic animal and animal mostly in Animation, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Once Upon a Time... Life: Team Umizoomi (2010), Puffin Rock (2015), Make Way for Noddy (2001), Super Why! (2007), Bananas in Pyjamas (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Once Upon a Time Was the Space (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 26 min.
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Story: Once Upon a Time… Space is a French/Japanese animated TV series from 1982, directed by Albert Barillé. The series was animated in Japan by the animation studio Eiken, and is thus considered to be anime as it also aired on Japanese TV, albeit not ...
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Plot: space opera, robot, space travel, outer space, wise man, spacewalk, space station, wisdom of life, computer system, mars, human nature, space and aliens ...
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Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth (2009)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
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Story: Teenagers, the internationally-recognized characters of the series, will be the heroes of adventures in which they will play an active role. They will be a force for change, faced with situations and problems they need to resolve. The series will be ...
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Team Umizoomi (2010)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Team Umizoomi is a animated fantasy musical series with an emphasis on preschool mathematical concepts, such as counting, sequences, shapes, patterns, measurements, and comparisons. The team consists of mini superheroes Milli and Geo, a friendly ...
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, colorful, semi serious ...
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Puffin Rock (2015)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Ireland
Duration: 7 min.
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Style: captivating, entertaining, sincere, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing
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Make Way for Noddy (2001)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 15 min.
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Story: Noddy, a wooden boy who lives in Toyland, introduces social concepts. He has big musical adventures with his friends and a very big imagination.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: young heroes, mischievous children, best friend, youth, escapades, child, child protagonist, stop motion
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Super Why! (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Super Why! or The Reading Adventures of Super Why! is a CGI animated show developed by Angela C. Santomero and Samantha Freeman Alpert. The TV series is produced by New York City-based Out of the Blue Enterprises and Toronto-based DHX Media through ...
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 12 min.
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Pecola (2001)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, USA
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Genre: Animation, Family
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
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Story: Around the World with Willy Fog is a cartoon adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. The cartoon was produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation. In the same vein as ...
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
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Story: Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks is a children's show on Discovery Kids, that premiered in the fall of 2006 and was produced by Endgame Entertainment and Bigfoot. It is a CGI-style animation, presenting the fictional ...
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