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Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968)
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Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series created by John McCallum, produced from 1966–1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales. Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production. At the time of first screening, Australian television was still in black and white, however, the show was filmed in colour on 16 mm film to increase its international marketability, especially in the United States and Canada, where it aired in syndication between 1969 and 1972. The Nine Network readily repeated the series several times after Australian television switched to colour transmission in 1975. The series was dubbed into Spanish in Mexico, where it is known as Skippy el canguro, and has been distributed to most Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba and Spain, where it became very popular. The series crossed the Iron Curtain and was aired in Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, and is still being broadcast in Iran.
Style: sitcom, children's program, offbeat, feel good, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: kangaroo, friendship, heroes, youth, friends, pets, danger, animal life, partner, amateur detective, odd couple, unlikely partners, young heroes, save the day, nature, escape, ecology, rescue, family relations, father daughter relationship, chase, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, friend, park ranger ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: australia
Keyword: partners, australian

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Most similar movies to Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, feel good, humorous and touching films and TV series with plots about friendship, youth, friends, family relations, danger, young heroes and heroes mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Flipper (1964), Napoleon (1995), Joey (1997), Andre (1994), Pippi Longstocking (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flipper (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of ...
Style: realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: sea, single father, dolphins, youth, family relations, park ranger, save the day, escapades, young heroes, friendship, danger, animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, florida, everglades
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95%
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Napoleon (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, pets, golden retriever, balloon, family relations, survival, odd couple, youth, getting home, rescue, young heroes, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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78%
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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 ⇓
70%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Pippi Longstocking (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Pippi Longstocking is a TV series based on Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking children's books. The show ran for thirteen episodes, the first episode being broadcast 8 February 1969 on the then Swedish public service channel Sveriges ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, vintage
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: monkey, youth, nordic, smart kid, magic, ape, friendship, redhead girl, strong female character, strong female lead, children, best friend ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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
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60%
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Toothless (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
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, hopes, supernatural, heroes, young heroes, friendship, legends and myths, family life, family relations, tooth fairy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A heartwarming Disney classic in which a cougar, who was rescued as a cub and raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest, reverts back to his natural instincts, leading to hilarious (and dangerous) consequences.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: cougar, animal, friendship, wilderness, cat, survival, orphan, pets, bear, wild animal, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, epic, retro ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: killer whale, friendship, friends, hunting, animal, rescue, danger, black market, kids and family, childhood, orca, youth ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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 ⇓
55%
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Flipper (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Flipper, is an American revival television series of the original 1964 Flipper television series. The first two seasons aired in first-run syndication; seasons 3 and 4 aired on the PAX network. The 1995 version brought back Bud Ricks as a scientist ...
Style: feel good, realistic, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ocean, rescue, family relations, danger, escapades, friendship, animal actor, animal, investigation, beach, heartwarming, creature ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
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Lassie (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Lassie is a Canadian television series which aired from 1997 to 1999 on YTV in Canada and Sunday nights on the Animal Planet network in the United States, as a modified remake of the original Lassie series about a boy and his faithful dog. As with ...
Style: entertaining, touching, sentimental, clever, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, animal, dog actor, best friend, getting home, animal life, human spirit, friendship, pets, human animal relationship, lassie, adventurer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Fuzzbucket (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.
Style: anthology, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: imaginary friend, youth, junior high school, creature, missing person, parent child relationship, best friend, disorder, family relations, friends, friendship, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Blue Fin (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: fishing, family relations, ocean, disaster, friends, parents and children, isolation, forces of nature, ship, friendship, danger, youth ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
House of Anubis (NL) (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: A group of boarding school students embark on the search for a treasure when one of them discovers a long hidden secret in the attic.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: riddles and clues, save the day, young heroes, buddies, danger, youth, teenager, friendship, puzzle, friends, curses spells and rituals, imaginary ...
Place: egypt, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the ...
Style: light, feel good, captivating, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: childhood, missing person, family relations, rescue, danger, wilderness, escapades, parents and children, mountain, survival, winter, coming of age ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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42%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
42%
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Geppetto (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: When a man wishes for a son, he learns what it means to be a father.
Style: stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: youth, puppet, pinocchio, family relations, young heroes, friendship, mischievous children, parents and children, surrogate father, escapades, miraculous event, child in peril ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: panda, survival, animal, human animal relationship, family relations, coming of age, bear, treasure hunt, parents and children, animal life, friends, disorder ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Big Red (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, animal, animal life, youth, camping, camping trip, canine, nature, puppy love, countryside, camp, orphan ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Girl from Tomorrow (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The Girl from Tomorrow is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is based around Alana, a girl from the year 3000. At the start of the series, she is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year ...
Style: apocalyptic, children's program, clever, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: sent to the past, time travel, time machine, friendship, female alien, fish out of water, young heroes, post apocalypse, children, female protagonist, friends, kids in trouble ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1990, 20th century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
Style: exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, daring rescue, disorder, parents and children, ship, family life, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Lassie Come Home (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Remake of 1943 movie based on Eric Knight's book, "Lassie Come Home"
Style: captivating, sentimental, scenic, humorous, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, animal life, pets, best friend, pet dog, human animal relationship, north sea, journey, dog actor, fight, children, grief ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
For the Love of Benji (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Benji is lost and becomes a stray animal in Athens, Greece, trying to reunite with his family while secret agents pursue him, trying to get a formula which was glued to his paw in order to get it past customs.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, animal, friendship, pets, chase, canine, kidnapping, espionage, doberman, partner, anti hero, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: greece, europe, crete, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Benji: Off the Leash! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benji and his friends try to save his mother from a puppy mill.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, odd couple, young heroes, against the odds, rescue, pets, mischievous children, parents and children, adoption, fish out of water ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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