Movies like The Adventures of Huck Finn

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The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
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The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney presents The Adventures of Huck Finn, starring Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns), it's the unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave
Style: road movie, uplifting, gothic, epic, juvenile, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, slavery, friendship, coming of age, childhood, racism, slave, interracial friendship, child in peril, child, runaway, river, youth, medieval, treasure hunt, storytelling, nature, past, profanity, treasure hunter, road trip, lesson, black, lynch mob, wanted ...
Time: victorian era, year 1993, 19th century, 1840s, victorian
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, southern usa, mississippi river
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Most similar movies to The Adventures of Huck Finn

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about friendship, youth, friends, coming of age, family relations, escapades and boy mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Huck Finn: Huckleberry Finn (1975), Tom Sawyer (1973), Oliver Twist (1997), Tom and Huck (1995), Candleshoe (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Huckleberry Finn (1975)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, disorder, friends, on the road, racism, interracial relations, coming of age, mischievous children, on the run, chases and races, escapades, african american ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mississippi, usa
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100%
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Style: epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: friendship, coming of age, river, youth, adventurer, treasure hunt, young heroes, mischievous children, childhood, supernatural, nature, kingdom ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 2K
Oliver Twist (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: orphan, youth, charles dickens, control, children, friends, injustice, danger, young heroes, gang, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 12K
Tom and Huck (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town ...
Style: humorous, suspense, anamorphic, juvenile, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, small town, murder, buddies, youth, coming of age, treasure hunt, runaway, death, couples, profanity ...
Time: 90s, 1800s, 19th century
Place: missouri, mississippi, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Candleshoe (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Candleshoe is a 1977 Walt Disney Productions live action movie based on the Michael Innes novel Christmas at Candleshoe and starring Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes in her last screen appearance, David Niven and Leo McKern.
Style: entertaining, melancholic, light, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: country estate, hidden treasure, orphan, teenage girl, treasure hunt, friendship, butler, heiress, unlikely friendships, happy ending, inheritance, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min.
Story: The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, youth, buddies, mischievous children, friends, on the lam, fishing, funeral, boy, buried treasure, skinny dipping, murder trial ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Huck and the King of Hearts (1994)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: youth, native, disorder, optimism, animal life, friends, family relations, cons and scams, family life, interracial relations, on the road, chases and races ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, las vegas, nevada, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Monkey Trouble (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Style: humorous, independent film, semi serious, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, childhood, monkey actor, friendship, coming of age, youth, human animal relationship, animal, girl, business, wild animal, stupid kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tom Sawyer (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Romania
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Sawyer (LOUIS HOFMANN) has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn (LEON SEIDEL) - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly (HEIKE MAKATSCH) with Tom and his ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: child's point of view, buddies, adventurer, young heroes, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, prank, false accusation, escapades, teaching the ways of the world, murder witness, young love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: missouri, america, st. petersburg russia, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: father son relationship, single father, poacher, poaching, landowner, hunting, english countryside, real life father and son playing father and son, gypsy, family relations, social differences, parents and children ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 15K
North (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to ...
Style: light, stylized, melancholic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: child protagonist, wish come true, parent child relationship, child as adult, child prodigy, child's point of view, adoption, travel, young heroes, self discovery, rebelliousness, mischievous children ...
Place: alaska, hawaii, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.0
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My Dog Skip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, friendship, animal, youth, children, world war two, human animal relationship, baseball ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.8
 3K
Buddy (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style: light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gorilla, animal, zoo, socialite, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, jungle, kids and family, camp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: usa, chicago, new york, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.0
 3K
Bingo (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, on the road, rescue, american football, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, childhood, coming of age, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 8.1
 438K
Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 753
Snowmen (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three young friends find adventure and purpose in their attempts to set a Guinness World Record. Set in a wintry mountain town, the unpopular trio pursues fame through a series of schemes and stunts that eventually imperil their own lives. Along the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, human spirit, elementary school, ambition, desire for fame, terminal illness, against the odds, social relations, life is a bitch, family problems, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - Tom's friend from the streets - witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about the incident. However, when the good-natured ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, friendship between boys, coming of age, first love, adventurer, childhood, disorder, small town, escapades, mischievous children, orphan ...
Time: 19th century
Place: missouri, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, exciting, epic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, pets, beautiful scenery, animal, friendship, unlikely friendships, childhood, fish out of water, talking animal, journey ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, nevada, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to trap Mowgli. But with the help of Baloo the bear and ...
Style: semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, monkey, jungle book, chase, elephant, youth, bear, escape, antidote, wilderness, cons and scams, friendship ...
Time: year 1997, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Crossed Swords (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when ...
Style: juvenile, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: twins, tudors, royal family, royalty, mistaken identity, sword fight, fencing, child, heroes, ancient, street kid, disorder ...
Time: victorian era, 16th century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Rainbow Tribe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Morgan Roberts, a middle aged adult in crisis, reunites with his best friend when he returns to the summer camp of his youth. His troubles seem to magnify when he is joined by a rag-tag group of 10 year old campers. Through their struggles they ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, youth, boy, puberty, camp counselor, friendship, life is a bitch, disorder, friends, mischievous children, terminal illness, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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White Fang (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, survival, human animal relationship, wilderness, treasure, pets, friendship, animal, dog sled, unlikely friendships, daring rescue, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1991, 1890s
Place: alaska, yukon, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
 7K
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 ⇓
38%
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 6.0
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Free Willy (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: human animal relationship, freedom, animal, killer whale, friendship, animal life, animal training, kids and family, whale, happy ending, ocean, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: astoria oregon, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 2K
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 ⇓
37%
 5.3
 12K
Flipper (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
Style: exciting, cult classic, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, animal, coming of age, summer, fish, water, heartwarming, friendship, youth, dolphins, boat, batman ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, youth, animal, friendship, pets, canine, boy and dog, family relations, interracial relations, power relations, disorder, friends ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 1940s
Place: tennessee, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, coming of age, love triangle, friendship, small town, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, fall in love, society, mute, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1947
Place: alabama, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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