Movies like An American Tail

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An American Tail (1986)
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An American Tail (1986)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, sentimental, touching, retro, dark, sad, claymation, crying, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: rat, mouse, childhood, cat, animal, immigrant, american dream, orphan, good versus evil, furry, chase, greed, holocaust, violence against women, courage, girl, mature, love affair, community, immigration, migration, sibling relationship, talking mouse, meme, revolutionary war ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place: new york, russia, usa, hong kong, hamburg germany, new jersey, united states ...
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Most similar movies to An American Tail

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out 2d animation, feel good, semi serious and humorous films with plots about friendship, escapades, friends, anthropomorphism, heroes, danger and furry mostly in Animation, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like An American Tail: The AristoCats (1970), The Secret of NIMH (1982), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Oliver & Company (1988), The Land Before Time (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, entertaining, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: mouse, dog, animal, old west, storytelling, justice, rescue, escapades, danger, young heroes, adventurer, family life ...
Time: 90s, 1900s, 19th century, 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The AristoCats (1970)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children -- Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats -- the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot: cat, animal life, talking animal, animal, getting home, friendship, social differences, butler, mischievous children, danger, animal protagonist, kitten ...
Time: 1910s, 70s, year 1970, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Style: fairy tale, touching, atmospheric, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, heroic mission, friendship, against the odds, laboratory, rat, rescue, illness, family problems, cure, danger, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the ...
Style: touching, sad, sweet, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, childhood, afterlife, animal, orphan, heaven, angel, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, furry, friendship, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1939
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Oliver & Company (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street ...
Style: sentimental, funny, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: orphan, friendship, dog, cat, adoption, pets, kitten, urban setting, alone, canine, tragedy, butler ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: new york, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fievel and his friend Tony Toponi find a map that they believe points to a treasure buried somewhere beneath Old New York, and the plucky rodent is determined to find it. However, what he discovers under the city is a tribe of Native American mice ...
Style: adult animation, semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: cat, danger, adventurer, escapades, friendship, treasure hunt, friends, animal life, culture clash, old west, teaching the ways of the world, police brutality ...
Time: 90s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Land Before Time (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 69 min.
Story: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, ...
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, colorful, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, friendship, earthquake, childhood, talking animal, natural disaster, babies and infants, wilderness, rescue, coming of age, land before time ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, exciting, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, escapades, wilderness, siblings relations, self discovery, mischievous children, family gatherings, friends, child in peril ...
Time: prehistory, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This fourth sequel in the series finds "leaf gobblers" eating all the vegetation in Great Valley, driving Littlefoot, the young brontosaurus, and the other dinosaur inhabitants out. Arguments break out among the adults during migration, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, psychotronic, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, violence against women, prehistoric animal, family relations, disaster, disorder, friends, animal life, family life, survival, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all ...
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, preschool
Plot: lion, good versus evil, friendship, jungle, breaking the fourth wall, imaginary kingdom, talking animal, animal, kids and family, rescue, anthropomorphism, best friend ...
Time: 2000s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Rescuers (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style: light, touching, feel good, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot: childhood, mouse, good versus evil, orphan, friendship, kidnapping, rescue, chase, little girl, anxiety, happy ending, talking animal ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: madagascar, new york, usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.
Style: serious, exciting, feel good, touching, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, love, afterlife, animal, runaway, ghost, deal with the devil, happy ending, animal protagonist, cartoon dog, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tarzan 2: The Legend Begins (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Experience the beginning of the legend with Disney's Tarzan â…¡, a hilarious, all-new, animated motion picture loaded with laughs, irresistible new songs by Phil Collins, and the inspired voice talent of Glenn Close, George Carlin, and Emmy ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, colorful, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: tarzan, jungle, self discovery, young heroes, good versus evil, survival, feral child, explorer, batman, teenager, love, lost world ...
Time: 1890s, 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
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The Lion King (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: lion, jungle, friendship, betrayal, love, good versus evil, tragedy, pride and honor, exile, hyena, uncle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bedtime story leads Littlefoot and his grandparents on a journey to a new land, where Littlefoot discovers someone who vanished before he was born: his father! Now Littlefoot must decide between two worlds. Will he leave to be with his friends in ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, suspense, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, family relations, getting home, land before time, friendship, child in peril, friends, parents and children, family life, danger, young heroes, survival ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
 10K
Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' ...
Style: surreal, sweet, independent film, parody, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers
Plot: cartoon wolf, animal, skunk, rock and roll, good versus evil, greed, chicken, rivalry, bird, transformation, furry, rooster ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Troll in Central Park (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to be mean ugly and scare humans whenever possible. As a punishment, he is exiled to a world of concrete, where he should live a life of ...
Style: humorous, sweet, semi serious, touching, anime ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: troll, imaginary kingdom, friendship, heroic mission, youth, mischievous children, good versus evil, heroes, escapades, fish out of water, social misfits, misfit ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Beloved dinosaurs Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Petrie and Ducky return in this story about the wonders of discovery that features new songs, including Donny Osmond's "No One Has to Be Alone."
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, family relations, family life, youth, child in peril, best friend, disorder, heroic mission, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Time: prehistory, year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Littlefoot and his friends are constantly being bullied and browbeaten by three teenage dinosaurs: Hyp, a Hypsilophodon; Nod, a Nodosaurus; and Mutt, a Muttaburrasaurus. However, when a shower of meteorites (flying rocks) impacts near the Great ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, crying, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, disaster, love, violence against women, friends, disorder, animal life, environmentalism, forces of nature, asteroids and comets ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.6
 197K
The Jungle Book (1967)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life ...
Style: fairy tale, funny, touching, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, preschool
Plot: jungle, orphan, bear, childhood, human animal relationship, feral child, friendship, animal life, good versus evil, children, mischievous children, conflict ...
Time: 1800s, year 1967, 20th century, 60s, 1890s ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While trying to obtain "Tree Sweets", Littlefoot into the tree and knocks down all the blossoms, attracting the Tinysauruses. They devour the plants and disappear. But Littlefoot isn't blamed for the disappearance, instead he ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, heroes, parallel world, heroic mission, mischievous children, unlikely partners, anti hero, escapades, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After an incident which nearly cost Littlefoot's grandmother her life, Littlefoot learns a series of lessons which his species call "Wisdoms". Meanwhile, a trio of dim-witted Beipiaosauruses named Loofah, Doofah and Foobie arrive in ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, psychotronic, 2d animation
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, friendship, disorder, friends, mischievous children, escapades, buddies, goofy hero, youth, wisdom of life, wilderness ...
Time: 2000s, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Littlefoot and the gang meet a shy newcomer, Ali, but the pleasantries stop there. There's a dire environmental theme to this third sequel in the series, in which the world's weather changes beyond the Great Valley, and what had been dry ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, violence against women, prehistoric animal, life lesson, childhood love, family relations, friends, animal life, family life, wilderness, save the day ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the young dinos and a new adult dinosaur named Mr. ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, danger, rescue, escapades, best friend, friendship, friends, misfit, heroes, cold weather, anthropomorphism ...
Time: prehistory, year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.5
 138K
Robin Hood (1973)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
Style: fairy tale, humorous, cute, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: robin hood, furry, anthropomorphic animal, medieval, prince, true love, princess, folk hero, love, happy ending, anthropomorphic mouse, fox ...
Time: middle ages, 70s, 20th century, medieval times, 12th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Snoopy Come Home (1972)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Snoopy receives a letter from his original owner Lila, he goes to visit her in the hospital while Charlie Brown and the gang are on the lookout for him. Suddenly, Snoopy feels that he must go live with Lila, but must say goodbye to all his ...
Style: sweet, touching, adult cartoon, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, peanuts, hospital, american football, friendship, bittersweet, chase, destiny, holiday, road trip, animated dog, canine ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
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Brother Bear (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, ...
Style: touching, fairy tale, inspirational, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, brother brother relationship, brotherhood, bear, talking animal, turned into an animal, survival, self sacrifice, wilderness, native american, transformation, revenge ...
Time: year 2003, stone age, 2000s, prehistory, prehistoric times ...
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Littlefoot and his pals set off in search of a "stone of cold fire" that fell from the night sky. Since he's the only one who has seen it though, nobody really believes him. Littlefoot's uncle Pterano offers support only because ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, 2d animation
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, land before time, family relations, prehistoric animal, violence against women, anti hero, furry, village life, heroic mission, village, parallel world, friends ...
Time: year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
Style: light, detective, stylized, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: mouse, sherlock holmes, assistant, investigation, good versus evil, talking animal, rescue, uncover truth, private detective, escapades, kidnapping, furry ...
Time: 20th century, 1800s, year 1986, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, europe, big ben london, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Style: colorful, light, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, pig, rescue, farm, children, friends who live together, compassion, animal human communication, misunderstanding, love, rat, broom ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new england, usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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