Movies like Step Dogs

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Step Dogs (2013)
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Step Dogs (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a pampered Hollywood pooch is sent up to North to live with a wise cracking farm-mutt, all leashes are off.
Style: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: talking dog, dog, youth, family life, kidnapping, family relations, farce, siblings relations, when the parents are away, teenager, winter, snow, christmas, animals, thief, stepmother, diamond, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, sibling rivalry, movie star, skunk, disbelieving adult, 13 year old, family ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

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Most similar movies to Step Dogs

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about family relations, youth, disorder, dog, family life, friends and pets mostly in Family, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Step Dogs: Dog with a Blog (2012), Golden Winter (2012), Bailey's Billion$ (2005), Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008), Mr. Troop Mom (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Dog with a Blog (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Avery Jennings and Tyler James are step-siblings who are complete opposites. The family faces an even bigger adjustment when their new dog, Stan, can talk and also has a blog, unbeknownst to the family. Stan uses his blog to discuss the happenings ...
Style: feel good, sitcom, semi serious, humorous, not serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: talking dog, dog, teenager, family relations, teenage life, talking animals, parents and children, family life, anthropomorphism, youth, siblings relations, step siblings ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Golden Winter (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: golden retriever, christmas, youth, dog, heist, friendship, disorder, talking dog, family relations, friends, house, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Bailey's Billion$ (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billion-dollar fortune. Bailey is lucky, that is, until he becomes the target of an elaborately-designed ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, sweet
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: talking dog, pets, dog, inheritance, friendship, mischievous children, cons and scams, golden retriever, family relations, disorder, friends, best friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Shelby: The Dog Who Saved Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This isn't just a Christmas miracle... It's Christmas magic! In this heart-warming family tale, rescue dog Shelby manages to escape the dog pound on Christmas Eve and runs straight into the arms of little Jake (John Paul Ruttan, Robocop). ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, dog, talking dog, dogcatcher, animal protagonist, holiday, puppy, winter, animal life, happy ending, destiny, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, comedy of errors, mischievous children, nothing goes right, family relations, lifestyle, disorder, friends, step siblings, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.4
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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)
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, treasure hunt, family life, camp, siblings relations, family relations, friends, summer camp, forest, jealousy, embarrassment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
My Sisters Kids in the Snow (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hele familien skal på skiferie i Norge, da far brækker benet. Derfor tager onkel Erik af sted med de fem ældste børn. På færgen møder Amalie skiinstruktøren Dan og onkel Erik bliver meget søsyg. Det viser sig far har lejet en meget lille ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: family relations, parents and children, mischievous children, siblings relations, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry, disorder, hotel, winter, children, snow ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, norway, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: youth, family relations, disney, parents and children, teenage life, family life, nothing goes right, mischievous children, disorder, island, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fall into puppy love with “the world’s worst dog”, who now has a frisky voice and an attitude to match. Join Marley for his mischievous puppy years, as he and his summer pal, Bodie Grogan, wreak havoc on a neighborhood dog contest. Marley ...
Style: exciting, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, puppy, pets, youth, talking dog, animals, friends, family relations, teenage life, chaos and mayhem, dog training, anthropomorphism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Finn on the Fly (2008)
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, captivating, feel good, offbeat
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: mad scientist, experiment gone awry, friendship, mischievous children, family relations, disorder, escapades, misfit, pets, getting home, science runs amok, boy and dog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Switchmas (2012)
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: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, follow your dream, disorder, mischievous children, family relations, friends, switching roles, hopes, parents and children, holiday, jewish ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
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Quints (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: baby, family relations, life turned upside down, child as adult, family life, disney, parents and children, teenage life, siblings relations, youth, mother daughter relationship, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: During Christmas' holidays, the children of a village split in two gang to play a snowball war. But that half-tone war scattered some bitterness and make more difficult the mutual attirance between Luc, the chief of the assailant and Sophie one ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, touching, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot: christmas, winter, village life, snow, countryside, village, friends, battles, animal life, family relations, disorder, escapades ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Abner, the Invisible Dog (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied teen stumbles into possession of a top-secret government formula that turns his dog invisible and gives it the power of speech.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, pets, suburbs, birthday, stupid kid, invisibility, when the parents are away, farce, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Vampire Dog (2012)
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, unusual plot structure, feel good, light
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: vampire, youth, pets, dog, boy and dog, pet dog, college, stupid kid, school, children, moving, drums ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Adventures of Bailey: Christmas Hero (2012)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's "Christmas time" at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, friendship, family life, on the road, getting home, hopes, siblings relations, family relations, youth, coming of age, wish come true ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
How to Be Indie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: How to Be Indie was a Canadian television show on YTV. The main character is a 13-year-old Indian Canadian teenager named Indira "Indie" Mehta. The program is a single-camera series intended for a youth audience. The series was created by ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, witty ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: teenage life, family relations, school, youth, parents and children, lifestyle, family life, social relations, eccentric family, friendship, love, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
Style: humorous, semi serious, romantic, offbeat
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: animals, pets, friends, family life, family relations, talking animals, partners, misfit, disorder, teenage life, youth, fish out of water ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, youth, pets, human animal relationship, mischievous children, family life, disorder, reincarnation, parents and children, adoption, friends, family relations ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Beethoven's 3rd (2000)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off in their camper for a road trip. Along the way, they gain a new passenger: slobbery ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: kids, preschoolers, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, animals, human dog relationship, family relations, pets, family life, disorder, nothing goes right, escapades, parents and children, silly humor, mischievous children ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
It Runs in the Family (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, melancholic, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, family relations, parents and children, eccentric family, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Passport to Paris (1999)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: twins, youth, impossible love, family relations, siblings relations, teenage girl, tourist, childhood, slice of life, child, girl, american abroad ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 1K
Hounded (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot: teenage boy, mischievous children, dog, eccentric family, teenage life, young heroes, nothing goes right, disney, family life, youth, pets, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Treasure Buddies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, friendship, young heroes, legends and myths, rivalry, heroes, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, pets, friends, treasure hunt ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Richie Rich: A Christmas Story (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, preschoolers, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, child, superhero, childhood, family relations, museum, parallel universe, winter, wealth, remote control, dog, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.8
 626
Cool Dog (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jimmy lives in the tranquil town of Eagle Rock, Louisiana, with his father, stepmother and his best friend Rainy, a German Shepherd. When Jimmy's father gets a promotion, the family must relocate to an apartment in New York City that has a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, road movie ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, german shepherd, forceful separation, save the day, on the road, friendship, pets, family life, disorder, youth, road trip, stupid kid ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Beethoven's 4th (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The family is pleasantly surprised and puzzled when Beethoven suddenly becomes obedient. Turns out it's a prince and the pauper scenario, with the real Beethoven now living with a pompous rich family.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschoolers
Plot: dog, youth, family relations, human dog relationship, saint bernard dog, mistaken identity, fish out of water, parents and children, pets, escapades, partners, disorder ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Bannister family including former K-9 police hero Zeus (voiced by Mario López) is back, and this time they're spending their holidays at a beautiful Rocky Mountain resort. But toss in an unexpected visit from cocky Uncle Randy (Casper Van ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, light
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, dog, animal life, save the day, pets, holiday, love, destiny, family relations, golden retriever, partners, disorder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: christmas, family life, holiday, eccentric family, youth, coming of age, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, society, destiny, happy ending, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, year 1946, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, disney, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, teenager, youth, children, santa claus, desert, chicken ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%