Movies and TV shows like The Karate Kid 1989

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The Karate Kid (1989)
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The Karate Kid (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Karate Kid is a thirteen episode animated series which debuted on NBC's Saturday morning lineup. It starred Joey Dedio, Robert Ito, and Janice Kawaye. It is based on the popular Karate Kid series of films. Hoping to build from the franchise's popularity, DIC Entertainment and Columbia Pictures Television premiered an animated Karate Kid on NBC's 1989 Saturday morning schedule.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: karate, martial arts, friendship, mascot, heroes, master warrior, child martial arts, teacher student relationship, martial artist, youth, friends, teachers and students, teenage life, escapades, partner, unlikely partners, young heroes, world spanning, power relations, teenager, teacher, violence, student, quest, warrior ...
Keyword: partners, short lived

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, humorous, semi serious and anime films and TV series with plots about heroes, escapades, youth, young heroes, friendship, friends and danger mostly in Animation, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Karate Kid: Chaotic (2006), Shuriken School (2006), Hero: 108 (2010), The New Adventures of Lassie (2014), The Emperor's New School (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chaotic (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Chaotic is an American-Canadian animated fantasy television series produced by 4Kids Entertainment and animated by Bardel Entertainment. It is based on the Danish trading card game of the same name. Much of the plot is based on the original ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, anime, dark fantasy
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: supernatural ability, supernatural, good versus evil, heroes, imaginary, danger, imaginary kingdom, young heroes, rivalry, parallel world, escapades, battles ...
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100%
Shuriken School (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Shuriken School is a British animated series that first aired on August 20, 2006 on Nickelodeon and then on YTV a few weeks later. It has also been airing on Jetix in the UK since February 2006, as well as on CITV. In the United States, the show ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: ninja, martial arts, children, school, ambition, heroes, young heroes, friends, youth, teachers and students, master warrior, friendship ...
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51%
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Hero: 108 (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, Taiwan, USA, Canada
TV show
Story: Hero: 108 is a British animated television series on Cartoon Network and the Cartoon Network international cable network, and Kabillion OnDemand channel in the United States. The series is created by Yang-Ming Tarng and is co-produced by Gamania, ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, anime
Audience: kids
Plot: buddies, friendship, uninhibited rivalry, master villain, friends, imaginary, danger, youth, escapades, rivalry, good versus evil, animal life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The New Adventures of Lassie (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, Germany, USA, France
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: For generations, Lassie the beautiful collie has been known and loved by viewers all over the world. Once again she enters the homes of millions of viewers as she talks for the first time in a TV adventure series for children aged 6 to 9.
Style: feel good, realistic, sentimental, exciting, anime ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: danger, rescue, friendship, heroes, best friend, family relations, pets, parents and children, animal life, escapades, youth, dog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Emperor's New School (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Emperor's New School is an American animated television series that aired on Disney Channel. The show is based on the characters from The Emperor's New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove. It follows the ...
Style: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, emperor, teenage life, partner, school, teenager, jealousy, villain, rivalry, youth, escapades, good versus evil ...
Place: south america, latin america
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34%
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Slugterra (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Following his father's death, 15-year-old Eli Shane embraces his destiny to follow in his dad's footsteps to a secret, subterranean world called Slugterra where he is determined to be the greatest Slugslinging hero of them all!
Style: exciting, semi serious, captivating, anime, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, friendship, master villain, young heroes, heroes, super weapon, escapades, danger, youth, imaginary, supernatural, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Life and Times of Juniper Lee is an American animated television series, created by Judd Winick and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It premiered on Cartoon Network on May 30, 2005, and ended its run on April 9, 2007.
Style: humorous, stylized, semi serious, multicultural, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: girl power, best friend, friends, teenage life, coming of age, young heroes, youth, teenager, heroine, dog, friendship, showdown ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Twelve Forever (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Reggie's dream is to be a kid forever. Her dream is so powerful that it creates its own fantasy world of perpetual youth.
Style: light, exciting, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, dream, adventurer, friendship, girl, child protagonist, teenager, female protagonist, youth, teenage boy, group of friends, tough girl ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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BeyWheelz (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: BeyWheelz: Powered by Beyblade, commonly referred to as BeyWheelz is a anime mini-series based on the, Hasbro toyline, BeyWheelz. It was commissioned by Nelvana and is produced by Synergy SP and d-rights.
Style: exciting, semi serious, anime, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, heroic mission, young heroes, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, battles, escapades, supernatural ability, danger, youth, supernatural ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
My Life as a Teenage Robot (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: My Life as a Teenage Robot is an American animated science fantasy television series, created by Rob Renzetti for Nickelodeon. It was Nickelodeon's first animated science fiction fairy tale. The series follows the adventures of XJ-9, better ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: robot, superhero, androids and robots, teenage life, save the day, disorder, fish out of water, heroes, superhuman powers, save the world, danger, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Bakugan Battle Brawlers (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Bakugan Battle Brawlers is a Japanese action adventure anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment and Japan Vistec under the direction of Mitsuo Hashimoto. The story centers on the lives of creatures called Bakugan and the battle brawlers ...
Style: anime, exciting, entertaining, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: young heroes, battles, friendship, good versus evil, youth, save the world, rivalry, friends, heroes, fantasy world, imaginary, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction/adventure/comedy series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: imaginary, save the world, unlikely partners, toy story, partner, emperor, good versus evil, space travel, danger, master villain, alien encounter, space and aliens ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Generator Rex (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Generator Rex is an American science fiction "nanopunk" action animated television series created by Man of Action for Cartoon Network. John Fang of Cartoon Network Studios serves as supervising director. It is inspired by the comic M. ...
Style: exciting, anime, apocalyptic, serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: superhero, heroes, danger, cure, youth, young heroes, teenage life, monster, superhuman powers, robot, save the day, teenage boy ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
All Grown Up! (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: All Grown Up! is an animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó for Nickelodeon. After the success of All Growed Up, the Rugrats 10th anniversary special, Nickelodeon commissioned All Grown Up! as a spin-off series based on ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, disorder, teenage life, grownups, family relations, youth, teenager, middle school, ethnicity, friends, twins, collaboration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Redakai: Conquer the Kairu (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The series revolves around Ky, a 15-year-old student of ancient martial arts, who embarks on an epic quest to find the Kairu, a primordial alien energy source. Aided by his friends Maya and Boomer, Ky travels the world searching for the Kairu while ...
Style: exciting, captivating, anime, entertaining, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, young heroes, friendship, super weapon, rivalry, danger, travel, master warrior, escapades, youth, uninhibited rivalry, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Storm Hawks (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Storm Hawks is an animated television series created by Asaph "Ace" Fipke and made by Nerd Corps Entertainment in conjunction and collaboration with Cartoon Network and YTV. It premiered on Cartoon Network on May 25, 2007. It started to ...
Style: exciting, stylized, semi serious, anime, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: good versus evil, heroic mission, teenage life, rivalry, friends, chase, superhero, pilot, motorcycle chase, young heroes, escapades, partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Packages from Planet X (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK
TV show
Story: Packages from Planet X is a US/Canadian animated television series produced by American Greetings and DHX Media that first premiered on Disney XD on July 13, 2013. A charismatic 15-year-old, Dan Zembrosky, from the bizarre town of Iron Bay suddenly ...
Style: humorous, exciting, stylized, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: mischievous children, heroes, teenage life, friendship, save the world, prank, buddies, young heroes, imaginary, nothing goes right, escapades, imaginary character ...
Time: 21st century
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27%
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WordGirl (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 9 –12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The show began as a series of shorts that premiered on PBS Kids Go! on ...
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: superhero, young heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, youth, crime fighter, secret identity, monkey, villain, friendship, schoolgirl, imaginary ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Grossology (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Grossology is a Canadian animated television series produced by Nelvana, and based loosely on the non-fictional children’s book series of the same name by Sylvia Branzei. It debuted on the YTV network in Canada on September 29, 2006, and was first ...
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: fighting crime, partner, partners against crime, escapades, siblings relations, laboratory, danger, superhero team, friendship, young heroes, rivalry, master villain ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Go, Diego, Go! (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Go, Diego, Go! is a children's television series created by Chris Gifferd and Valerie Walsh, and is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer. The show premiered on September 6, 2005 and ended on September 16, 2011 on Nickelodeon. It also aired as part ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, educational
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: human animal relationship, mischievous children, animal life, adventurer, friendship, young heroes, best friend, disorder, escapades, youth, danger, rescue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is an American animated television series produced by Marvel Productions starring established Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man and Iceman and an original character, Firestar. As a trio called the Spider-Friends, ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, villain, good versus evil, friends, escapades, imaginary, heroes, rivalry, danger, superhuman powers, master villain, undercover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is an American animated action-adventure television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and broadcast on Cartoon Network from August 26, 1996 to September 24, 1999. A revival of the 1960s Jonny Quest franchise, it ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, unusual phenomena, imaginary, youth, good versus evil, young heroes, heroes, escapades, rivalry, computer genius, world spanning, teenage boy ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Baby Looney Tunes (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Baby Looney Tunes is an American animated television series showing the Looney Tunes characters as babies. It was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The show premiered on WB stations usually before or after the Kids' WB! block on September 7, ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, anime ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: looney tunes, bugs bunny, goofy hero, babies and infants, young heroes, mischievous children, friendship, heroes, disorder, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, grandmother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Recess (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series focuses on six elementary school students and their interaction with other classmates and ...
Style: anime, not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: elementary school, school, working class, friendship between men, pop culture, ethnicity, boss, friendship, spoiled brat, security guard, best friend, mischievous children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 8.4
 125K
Naruto (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, manly
Plot: determination, friends, danger, ninja, rivalry, friendship, master warrior, training, good versus evil, teenage life, youth, naruto ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Hercules (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Taiwan, Thailand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Hercules is an animated series based on the 1997 film of the same name and the Greek myth. The series premiered in syndication on August 31, 1998, and on Disney's One Saturday Morning on September 12, 1998. The syndicated series ran 52 ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, heroes, youth, hercules, couples, ancient, love and romance, mentor, high school, sword and sorcery, ancient world, greek god ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Zak Storm (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, South Korea, Indonesia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of Zak Storm - a headstrong and adventurous kid swept into the Bermuda Triangle while trying to win a surfing competition. Once inside, Zak partners up with a magical sword that allows him to transform into a swashbuckling, renegade ...
Style: exciting, sincere, tense, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: sea monster, friendship, teenage protagonist, teamwork, obsessive quest, heroes, danger, teenager, teenage life, surfing, surfer, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Max Steel (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Max Steel is a science fiction–comedy, CGI–animated series. It is a re-imagining of its predecessor of the same name, as well as being based on the Mattel action-figure also of the same name. Max Steel premiered on March 25, 2013 on Disney XD.
Style: exciting, semi serious, anime, 3d animation, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, young heroes, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, friendship, youth, teenage life, good versus evil, imaginary, heroes, space and aliens, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: The Legend of Zelda is an American animated series based on the Japanese video game series The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The plot follows the adventures of Link and Princess Zelda as they defend the kingdom of Hyrule ...
Style: cult classic, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: sword and sorcery, superhero, sword, warrior, love, princess, heroes, good versus evil, imaginary, young heroes, danger, adventurer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tak and the Power of Juju (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Tak and the Power of Juju is an all CGI-based animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon on August 31, 2007 and on Nicktoons on September 1, 2007. It has been showing on Nicktoons in the United Kingdom since 5 July 2008. Based on the video game ...
Style: light, exciting, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: wizards and magicians, young heroes, friendship, jungle, save the day, youth, friends, goofy hero, supernatural, good versus evil, heroes, supernatural ability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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