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Pinocchio: A True Story (2021)
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Pinocchio: A True Story (2021)
Original name: Пиноккио. Правдивая история
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Think you know the story of Pinocchio? Think again! In this thrilling, humorous take on the classic tale, the wooden hero is a skilled acrobat who performs stunts with his beloved horse, the wisecracking Tybalt. He runs off to join a circus, where he falls for the ringmaster’s daughter, Bella. But when Pinocchio learns the circus is a cover-up for robberies, he must stop the crime spree in order to save Bella – and, hopefully, become human.
Style: captivating, sincere, feel good, humorous, entertaining, computer animated, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot: pinocchio, single father, curses spells and rituals, circus, friendship, friends, magic, heroes, teacher, youth, family relations, parents and children, toys, escapades, wish fulfillment, puppet, carpenter, transformation, anthropomorphism, life changing experience, objects come to life, teaching the ways of the world, imaginary, horse, talking horse ...
Time: contemporary
Place: russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, captivating and semi serious films with plots about friends, friendship, escapades, youth, imaginary, family relations and heroes mostly in Animation, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Pinocchio: A True Story: Magic Arch 3D (2020), The Velveteen Rabbit (2009), Pinocchio (1992), Eleanor's Secret (2009), Wishenpoof! (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Magic Arch 3D (2020)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, Hungary
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young dolphin with an active imagination saves Fish Town from evil Moray Eels and reunites with his father after discovering a magic arch that makes wishes come true.
Style: colorful, captivating, enigmatic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: animal, magic, talking animal, desire, supernatural, animal life, life philosophy, friendship, danger, miraculous event, family relations, anthropomorphism ...
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Pinocchio: The Adventures of Pinocchio (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, France, Belgium
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, ...
Style: entertaining, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: pinocchio, parents and children, escapades, young heroes, youth, transformation, education, carpenter, friendship, wish fulfillment, teaching the ways of the world, magic ...
Time: 19th century
Place: italy, europe
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49%
Little Spirit: Christmas in New York (2008)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: When a friendly cabbie tells two young sisters the story of a boy named Leo who moved to Manhattan with his family, a magical adventure begins. While adjusting to the big city and enjoying the days leading up to Christmas, Leo accidentally loses his ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family relations, heroes, missing dog, escapades, friends, friendship, owner dog relationship, city, pet dog, magic, taxi driver ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Velveteen Rabbit (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lonely boy wins over his distant father and strict grandmother with help from a brave velveteen rabbit whose one wish is to become a real rabbit someday
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, light, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: youth, objects come to life, children, family relations, friendship, imaginary, family life, escapades, love, gift, christmas, mischievous children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Gnomes & Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2009)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, computer animated, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: troll, imaginary kingdom, save the day, friendship, young heroes, heroes, heroic mission, odd couple, best friend, partner, unlikely partners, family relations ...
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38%
Princess Lillifee and the Little Unicorn (2011)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Together with her friends and the unicorns, Princess Lillifee must free the neighboring country Bluetopia from a cold spell, which has covered everything in ice and snow
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: imaginary kingdom, young heroes, imaginary, escapades, curses spells and rituals, heroes, youth, save the day, friends, danger, magic, fantasy world ...
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Pinocchio (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The Little Wooden Toy. The unforgettable story of a little wooden boy who longs with all his heart to become real. When a small spark of magic escapes from the Blue Fairy's home, it travels down toy maker Gepetto's chimney, bringing one ...
Style: mockbuster, semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: puppet, disorder, friends, family relations, wizards and magicians, teaching the ways of the world, curses spells and rituals, miraculous event, fish out of water, parents and children, wish come true, youth ...
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33%
Eleanor's Secret (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, sincere, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: save the day, escapades, danger, youth, book, friendship, alice in wonderland, boy, disorder, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Wishenpoof! (2014)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Bianca is just like any other little girl, except for one teensy little thing. Bianca has Wish Magic, so she can make wishes come true. Whether she's at home in Wish World, at the Willow Tree with her fairy friends, or at school with her ...
Style: educational, feel good, entertaining, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: friendship, supernatural ability, young heroes, friends, youth, wish fulfillment, magic, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, heroes, imaginary, teddy bear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Toys in the Attic (2009)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Japan, France, Slovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story: In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Prince Charming, lazy Teddy Bear and the plasticine creature Schubert. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, light, anime ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: stop motion, friendship, rescue, escapades, attic, objects come to life, imaginary, good versus evil, puppet, abduction, rivalry, danger ...
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29%
Guess How Much I Love You (2012)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, UK, Singapore
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the books by Sam McBratney, and illustrated by Anita Jeram, Guess How Much I Love You sees Little and Big Nutbrown Hare explore their beautiful surroundings, play with their friends and delight in the love between them. The series not only ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, animal life, woods, parents and children, youth, escapades, family relations, disorder, mischievous children, love, friends, house
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29%
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree, the source of all their magic. But when Tinker Bell accidentally puts all of Pixie Hollow in jeopardy, she must venture out across the ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, feel good, humorous, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: fairy, friendship, imaginary kingdom, tinkerbell, mischievous children, supernatural, imaginary, siblings relations, friends, family relations, disorder, young heroes ...
Time: 2000s
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28%
The Nutcracker and The Magic Flute (2022)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is New Year’s Eve, and Marie is in for a very unpleasant surprise: her mother is forced to marry against her will to the revolting money lender Mr. Ratter. As a token of proposition, he gives Marie a doll named Nutcracker. A miracle occurs and ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: prince, kingdom, friend, beast, imaginary kingdom, costume ball, rescue, friends, rat, monster, fictional kingdom, friendship ...
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28%
Care Bears To the Rescue (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: You’re invited to the biggest celebration of the year – the Care-a-Lot Awards – where all the Care Bears come together to award their heroes who have spread caring and sharing throughout the year! Whether it’s Cheer helping a baby Gobblebug ...
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Plot: save the day, friendship, youth, rivalry, good versus evil, escapades, danger, rescue, bear, friends, imaginary kingdom, imaginary
Time: 2010s
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Barbie: A Fairy Secret (2011)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Get ready for Barbie: A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends reveal ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, light, colorful, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
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Little Vampire (2020)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Little Vampire lives in a haunted house with a merry group of monsters, but he is bored stiff! One night, he secretly sneaks out of the manor along with his trusted bulldog, Phantomato, on a quest to find some new friends.
Style: anime, suspense, captivating, humorous, light ...
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27%
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Homeward (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A boastful elf and his prank-happy orc brother must learn to work together to stop a fiendish orc gang from retrieving a magical stone that will give them the power to take over the world.
Style: mockbuster, entertaining, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: elf, magic, friends, contests and competitions, buddies, friendship, good versus evil, transformation, supernatural power, rescue, heroes, fantasy world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Princess Lillifee (2009)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In an enchanted kingdom, Princess Fairy Lillifee rules creating beauty and spreading goodness wherever she goes. Together with her best friend, Pupsi pork, she flies all over her kingdom, leaving behind a magical trail: clouds of pink butterflies ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: kids
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Back To The Sea (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When little fish Kevin is swept up in a net and taken from his home in the vast oceans to the small glass fish tank of a restaurant, he must find a way to escape and make his way back home.
Style: 3d animation, sincere, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
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Time: year 2012
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27%
Mia and the Migoo (2008)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, stylized, anime ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: family relations, escapades, friends, friendship, danger, youth, rescue, childhood, heroes, imaginary, race against time, rebelliousness ...
Time: 21st century
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27%
The Wizard's Christmas (2014)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Long ago in a faraway land, a young wizard's apprentice named Alerik discovers a pathway under the wall that surround his land to a shining city alive with the magic of Christmas.
Style: 3d animation, captivating, contemplative, dark fantasy, light ...
Plot: christmas, wizard, magic, holiday, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, magical, family relations, friends, escapades, friendship, child in peril ...
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Place: canada
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27%
The Gruffalo's Child (2011)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 27 min.
Story: A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the ...
Style: humorous, christmas special, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers
Plot: parents and children, adventurer, forest, danger, animal life, escapades, youth, wilderness, warning, family relations, woods, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: 21st century
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26%
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade (2006)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Wysteria is beaming with pride! Her gardens are in bloom, her little Breezie friends are in town, and it's time for Ponyville's fanciest spring parade, the ultimate celebration of flowers, flowers, flowers! But things don't go ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, sweet
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: friendship, horse, my little pony, friends, good versus evil, imaginary, partner, disorder, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, rescue, princess ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Barbie: Fairytopia (2005)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Elina is a flower fairy who discovers that her home of Magic Meadow has been overcome by a horrible malady that is killing the flowers and making the fairies unable to fly. With the help of Bibble, a puffball and a giant butterfly named Hue she ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: barbie, fairy, friendship, imaginary kingdom, magical power, giant bird, escapades, mermaid, friends, magical, good versus evil, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Care Bears: Big Wish Movie (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Feeling sad that her fellow Care Bears don't seem to appreciate her wishes, Wish Bear uses her wish star, Twinkers, to find some bears who love wishing as much as she does. That's when three new bears move to Care-a-lot...with some very ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, computer animated, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: wish come true, friendship, hopes, imaginary kingdom, youth, escapades, imaginary, friends
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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A Cat's Tale (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young domestic "indoor" cat named Marcello escapes from his home one day into the big outdoors to visit "Jujube", a pretty out-door female kitty. Alone for the first time in his short life, Marcello learns to grow up and finds ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friends, family relations, escapades, getting home, danger, cat, friendship, love, rivalry, society, family life, pets ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Pinocchio 3000 (2003)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, Spain, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This is the story of a little robot known as Pinocchio 3000 whose greatest wish is to become a real boy. The year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates ...
Style: computer animated, futuristic, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: androids and robots, pinocchio, wish come true, heroes, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, artificial intelligence, youth, hopes, inventions and discoveries, parents and children ...
Time: future
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25%
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story: Geppetto prepare for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, stop motion, pinocchio, christmas wish, xmas, holiday, woods, family relations, friends, disorder, danger, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Gotta Catch Santa Claus (2008)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Trevor is a true believer in the holiday spirit, so his skeptical best friend, Veronica, challenges him to show the world actual proof that Santa is real! Trevor and his friends embark on the adventure of a lifetime to catch Santa in action and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, save the day, friendship, obsessive quest, legends and myths, escapades, disorder, santa claus, good versus evil, abduction, space, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Animalia (2007)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia, USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Animalia is an Australian children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base in 2012 being distributed by Cyber Group Studios.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: save the day, friends, escapades, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, animal life, danger, friendship, good versus evil, portal, parallel world, magic ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007
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24%
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