Movies like Across the Sea of Time
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Across the Sea of Time (1995)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography. The boy follows his relative's traces by counter-checking the old 3D-Photographs of New York (using an antique viewer) with the same places and how they look today. This way, the audience gets to see the Big Apple in former times as well as today.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, sentimental, light, romantic, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
coming of age, youth, photography, migration, stowaway, immigrant, society, urban, lifestyle, city life, young heroes, thief, police, subway, photographer, wall street, beach, swimming, theft, family relations, journey, salesman, skyscraper, picture, photograph ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s, 90s, future
Place:
new york, russia, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, atlantic ocean, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
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Most similar movies to Across the Sea of Time
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, friendship, family, friends and society mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Across the Sea of Time: Finding Friends (2005), Satellite Boy (2012), Secret of the Cave (2006), Manito (2002), Choking Man (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
pets, coming of age, friendship, fish out of water, teenage life, save the day, youth, young heroes, escapades, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, friendship, friends, family relations, youth, best friend, desert, society, escapades, aborigine, save the day, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, christian, treasure hunt, coming of age, treasure hunter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, seattle
Similarity:
83%
603
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, rough, touching, tense ...
Plot:
drug dealing, racism, social decay, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family relations, siblings relations, dogma, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, campus, coming of age ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, immigrant, self discovery, friendship, restaurant, diner, family relations, social misfits, workplace romance, workplace, lonely, unfulfilled love ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, black horse, desert, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, stallion, world war two, survival, rescue, young heroes ...
Similarity:
71%
24K
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the ...
Style:
cult classic, political, lighthearted, epic, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
dance, paperboy, orphan, teenage boy, broadway, friendship, profanity, labor union, media, journalism, underdog, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, year 1992, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, north america, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, party, love, girlfriend, society, hipster, human relationship, lifestyle, urban ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on a true-story - A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable tale of two young brothers, Elliott and Rocky Plumm, who go head-to-head with the FBI in order to crack the "frog-napping" case and get their beloved TV puppet, Froggy Doo back on ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, family relations, adventurer, amateur detective, family life, parents and children, small town, child, investigation, puppet, frog, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Style:
realistic, feel good, serious, sentimental
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rodeo, youth, hopes, direction and purpose, friendship, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, cowgirl, search for father, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma city, texas, usa, kansas, oklahoma
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Set in 1985, Manila, 3 siblings spend an extended summer waiting to immigrate to the United States, while their country gets ready to evict their homeland's notorious dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.
Style:
realistic, captivating, sincere, serious, tagalog ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
revolution, martial law, immigration, protest, election, politics, activism, summer, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, pop culture ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
coming of age, boy, young boy, altar boy, friendship, friends, urban ghetto, urban, addiction, urban ghetto life, school, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the real-life adventure of the Sager family. Travelling with a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon, things are going well for the Sagers, until father Sager dies from blood poisoning following an Indian attack, and mother ...
Style:
independent film, uplifting, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, youth, winter, treasure hunt, snow, wagon train, wilderness survival, landscape, stranded, nature, treasure hunter, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
oregon, missouri, usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Meet nine-year old Saige, a talented artist with a passion for horses, in this modern-day story about finding your voice! Saige is excited about the new school year, until she discovers that art-her favorite class-has been cut. On top of that, her ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids
Plot:
horse, friendship, school, youth, american girl, family relations, singing, balloon, art, female friendship, painting, artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to the Watsons, a close knit family. When 15 year-old Byron’s antics go over the top, his parents realize enough is enough and they decide the family needs a dose of Grandma Sands' no nonsense ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, humorous, family saga ...
Plot:
family relations, african american, road trip, civil rights, social differences, coming of age, society, injustice, family gatherings, child, on the road, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, alabama, michigan
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia, Mongolia, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
3 stories, 3 countries. Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia. Nomad children fill a hostile world with their wishes and their dreams. At major cross-roads in their lives, they are confronted by love, danger and death.
Style:
sincere, serious, atmospheric, realistic, meditative ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, danger, love and romance, society, wilderness, tradition versus modernity, children, culture, real life, tradition, resilience ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tibet, mongolia, siberia, russia, asia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story set in Missouri, "The Trial of Old Drum" tells the story of a valiant golden retriever, Old Drum, an orphan dog that becomes a boy's best friend and is then forced to stand trial for killing a neighbor's ...
Style:
touching, realistic, light, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, courtroom drama, golden retriever, boy, legal investigation, against the odds, family relations, righting the wronged, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, pets ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Similarity:
52%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
52%
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, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
boy, father son relationship, rescue, ocean, youth, healing power, coming of age, fishing, fisherman, animal, young heroes, friendship ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
51%
736
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, farm, family relations, dog, friendship, pets, single parent, coming of age, community service, village life, anger management, hopes ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa, iowa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, society, city life, music, social misfits, fall in love, love, african, rivalry, couples, hustler, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, west africa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, rabbit, friendship, family relations, family life, pets, nursing, orphan, coming of age, holiday, youth, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl leaves home with her pet dog and rabbit to escape abuse and find the ocean in the hopes of feeling closer to her father who has passed away.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, hopes, pets, estrangement, family life, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
49%
8K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of how a marine seal named Andre befriended a little girl and her family, circa 1962.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, animal, seal the animal, heartwarming, friendship, small town, youth, water, magic, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1994, 90s, 60s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
49%
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:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
ocean, beach, dolphins, animal, creature, youth, danger, escapades, pirate, rivalry, young heroes, save the day ...
Time:
60s
Place:
florida, bahamas, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, inspirational, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
goose, rescue, father daughter relationship, bird, aviation, single father, animal, loss of mother, migration, conservation, deforestation, childhood ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
canada, new zealand, north carolina, ontario canada, new york
Similarity:
48%
169
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Chris is haunted by the death of his father and resentful of his stepfather Cal. He befriends a lost dog and names it Smoke, but tries to keep it a secret for fear Cal will take the dog away.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, german shepherd, nature, family relations, estrangement, animal life, remarry, farm, teenage life, betrayal, coming of age, 14 year old boy ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Thanks to a strict Muslim upbringing that largely shielded him from the outside world, Tariq's first year of college proves transformative. That is, until the 9/11 terrorist attacks invite growing suspicion and distrust from his angry ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, powerful, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
9/11, social differences, racism, culture clash, teachers and students, society, youth, lifestyle, social relations, adolescence vs adulthood, college life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a government representative announces that he intends to reunite an orphaned orca with his pod by transporting him hundreds of miles over dry land, the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations Band, which believes that the spirit of their late chief ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, nature documentary ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, adult
Plot:
killer whale, idealism, environmentalism, escapades, animal life, youth, friendship, danger, society, homecoming, ocean, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, british columbia
Similarity:
47%
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