Movies and TV shows like Anne of Green Gables 1985
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Anne of Green Gables (1985)
24K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. Anne's a dreamer with an unusual point of view, far removed from Marilla's pragmatic ways, and it's only on trial that Marilla agrees to keep Anne.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous, feel good, crying, inspirational, entertaining, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, anne of green gables, love and romance, foster home, young heroes, best friend, friendship between girls, friends, fall in love, little girl, strong female lead, island, farm, beauty, free spirited, love, heartwarming, first love, family life ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, year 1985, 1800s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
canada, america
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Most similar movies to Anne of Green Gables
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and period drama films and TV series with plots about family relations, family, youth, friendship, orphan, girl and children mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Anne of Green Gables: Pollyanna (2003), Little House on the Prairie (1974), Little Women (1994), The Secret Garden (1993), Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as ...
Style:
period piece, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
anne of green gables, friendship, corporal punishment, coming of age, school, adopted daughter, mentor, teachers and students, love, heartwarming, child prodigy, orphan ...
Time:
1800s, 1900s, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
canada, usa, chicago, boston, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style:
touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, small town, young heroes, friends, change of heart, orphan, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place:
minnesota, kansas
Similarity:
96%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style:
sentimental, costume drama, uplifting, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
sisters, family values, coming of age, friendship, women, christmas, family bonds, first love, life changing experience, love and romance, everyday life, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, ancient times ...
Place:
new york, massachusetts, usa, new england, paris france ...
Similarity:
94%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, friendship, beautiful scenery, mansion, little girl, sick child, children, old mansion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place:
india, england, liverpool, eastern europe, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, woman in labor, single parent, self discovery, love affair, small town life, human nature, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place:
kansas, maine, america, new england, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
small town, countryside, heroine, friends, couple relations, teacher, family life, uncle niece relationship, parents and children, school, friendship, mischievous children ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, orphan, teenage life, small town, coming of age, feminism, child's point of view, family relations, children's home, society, school, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, period drama
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
orphan, child's point of view, adoption, victorian england, family relations, starting over, young heroes, youth, coming of age, uncover truth, family problems, grownups ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
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Story:
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Style:
costume drama, sad, juvenile, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
orphan, youth, physical disability, families, grief, smart kid, aging, disability, family relations, friendship, mountain, friends ...
Place:
swiss alps, alps, europe, switzerland, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, friendship, colonial america, rescue, best friend, hopes, american girl, animal life, young heroes, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, usa, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, feel good, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly
Plot:
rich and poor, master and servant, christmas, friendship, young heroes, teenage life, uncle niece relationship, american girl, family relations, society, orphan, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
new york, america, usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama series created by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the American West and who settles ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, medical drama ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing
Plot:
old west, doctors and patients, family values, small town, female doctor, parents and children, couple relations, medical, love and romance, medicine, american indian, children ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Christy is an American historical fiction drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.
Christy was based on the novel Christy by Catherine Marshall, the widow of Senate chaplain Peter Marshall. The novel had ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, period drama
Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
rural setting, child prodigy, abbey, progress, age difference, christian, school teacher, gilded age, mentor, young love, poor, prodigy ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, america, usa, north carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of sisters Lillian and Grace who open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, they strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the ...
Style:
sincere, light, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
family drama, two sisters, children's home, sister sister relationship, orphanage, orphan, family relations, sisters, couple relations, children, family bonds, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
The continuing adventures of Anne Shirley in New York and in France during World War I.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
world war one, true love, rich and poor, battles, missing person, love and romance, rise to the top, couples, writer's life, couple relations, anne of green gables, orphan ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1915, year 1919, year 1918
Place:
canada, new york, usa, europe, france ...
Similarity:
67%
22K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, medical drama ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse ranch, small town, farm, wild horse, family relations, cattle ranch, siblings relations, animal life, youth, workplace, death of mother ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
63%
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737
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, mountain, family relations, youth, physical disability, girl, adoption, basement, governess, friendship, optimism, disability ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
alps, switzerland, swiss alps, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, garden, little girl, child's point of view, family relations, uncle, friendship, mansion, family problems, mischievous children, family life, cholera ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
grandfather granddaughter relationship, mountain, youth, village life, goat, family relations, village, family life, escapades, power relations, isolation, misfit ...
Time:
1880s, 19th century
Place:
swiss alps, switzerland, alps, europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, feel good, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
couples, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, family life, adoption, friendship, widow, doctors and patients, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, anne of green gables ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Follow the adventures of Darrell Rivers as she leaves home for the first time to attend an all-girls’ boarding school. Set in post-war Britain on the sun-drenched cliffs of the Cornish coast, the series explores a nostalgic world of midnight ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, spooky, period drama
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
boarding school, girls' school, teenage life, girls' boarding school, post war, lifestyle change, adolescence, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, ghost, ancient ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Little House on the Prairieis a TV miniseries based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
escapades, family relations, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, farm, small town life, manners, small town, american history, prairie, pioneer ...
Place:
kansas, wisconsin
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne of Green Gables is a made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Style:
pastoral, sentimental, period piece, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
anne of green gables, literary, imagination, dreaming, coming of age, family drama, friendship, innocence, adoption, small town, resilience, identity ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, parents and children, family life, hopes, bittersweet, friendship, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show that aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, about the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of four short ...
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, emotional, educational, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
friendship, childhood, slice of life, grownups, community, social realism, neighborhood, coming of age, identity, high school life, urban, innocence ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
30%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Annie has been living in an orphanage her whole life run by cruel Miss Hannigan. After unsuccessful escape attempts, Grace Farrell comes to take the child home to live two weeks with billionaire Oliver Warbucks during Christmas.
Style:
christmas special, emotional, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
orphan, adoption, redhead girl, christmas, youth, friendship, winter, dancing, child, orphanage, little girl, superhero ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
60%
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