Movies like Paws P.I.
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Paws P.I. (2018)
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A boy determined to save his father's failing private detective business enlists the help of his pet dog and parrot...who talk. Together they will try to take down the town's tyrannical tycoon who's determined to stop a mansion from being turned into an animal rescue.
Style:
humorous, exciting, funny, light, captivating, feel good, family comedy, lighthearted, uplifting
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
talking animal, children, dog, parrot, animal rescue, boy, parents and children, childhood, child protagonist, child, little boy, talking parrot, animal, boyhood, friendship, family values, teamwork, private detective, good versus evil, pet dog, boy hero, heartwarming, investigation, courage, determination ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, entertaining and lighthearted films with plots about children, friendship, small town, coming of age, dog, community and family mostly in Family, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Paws P.I.: The Kids Who Saved Summer (2004), Tiger (1998), The Dog Who Saved Easter (2014), Chebi: My Fluffy Friend (2023), Benjamin the Elephant (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a young boy in an under-funded inner-city school discovers the head of the school board is stealing money from fundraisers and lives in a mansion, he organizes his friends together to get that money back where it belongs: in the classroom.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, captivating, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
school, children, teamwork, friendship, corruption, stealing money, child, robin hood, high school life, schoolboy, satire, stolen money ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A group of youngsters trying to save their playground from an unscrupulous developer who wants to build a factory there.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, uplifting, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
friendship, youth, family relations, mischievous children, friends, disorder, family life, factory, deception, summer, children, neighborhood ...
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Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In this sequel, the super intelligent artificial robotronic dog, Archie, befriends Gregory, a young boy who is the son of a carnival owner. Gregory is concerned that someone has been stealing from the carnival and enlists his new friend to help find ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
robot dog, friendship, pets, investigation, teamwork, dog, pet dog, human animal relationship, boy and dog, animal, children, sleuth ...
Similarity:
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82
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Josh Baker is the youngest son of the rambunctious but loving Baker family who live in a sunny beach side California suburb. He is constantly teased by his brother John and his sisters Erica and Lisa, misunderstood by his parents Andrea and Rick, ...
Style:
feel good, family comedy, lighthearted, uplifting, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, friendship, pets, children, talking animal, heartwarming, innocence, childhood, parent child relationship, telepathy, neighborhood, sibling rivalry ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's Easter and everyone's favorite K-9 is back! The Bannisters are heading out on a family cruise and sending Zeus to doggie day care. Everything is going according to plan, until the daycare's crosstown rival hires a trio of crooks ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
easter, dog, rivalry, holiday, cons and scams, save the day, danger, kindergarten, children, rescue mission, loyalty, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
What if Cheburashka really exists? What if he is not a plush toy, but quite a real furry animal that lives in an orange grove in a distant country? What if he finds himself in a small town by the sea and meets an uncommunicative old man who does not ...
Style:
feel good, cute, uplifting, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, children, heartwarming, families, boy, girl, old man, adventure hero, rich girl, little boy, human animal friendship, human animal relationship ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Comedy - Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Blake Michael
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, uplifting, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
friendship, youth, school, save the day, friends, theater, reconciliation, self esteem, family values, middle school, respect, society ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
Style:
feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing
Plot:
elephant, zoo, friendship, teamwork, children, escapades, human animal relationship, schoolboy, satire, animal human communication, save the day, friends ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Buddy is an abandoned young cocker spaniel waiting dejectedly in his cage for a kind, new owner to adopt him. Suddenly, Billy, a little boy whose hair is as red as Buddy's, appears. It's love at first sight and the beginning of a great ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, not serious, family comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids
Plot:
boy and dog, youth, dog, family relations, parents and children, silly humor, disorder, pets, babies and infants, coming of age, pet dog, bonding ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
somalia, paris france, france
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Jack Family is at it again, as they enter the International World of Wiener Dog Racing. The kids sneak away to enter Shelly in the Internationals, and find themselves caught in a devious plot by Mrs. Merryweather that may change wiener dog races ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
dog, human animal relationship, children, contests and competitions, animal, contest, rivals, pets, competitor, animal training, animal life, rivalry ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An eleven year old girl can talk to animals. When a thief causes trouble in the local zoo, she comes to the rescue.
Style:
feel good, captivating, funny, colorful, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
animal human communication, zoo, talking animal, zookeeper, supernatural ability, family relations, animal, travel, imaginary, music, children, compassion ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Zeus (Mario Lopez) accidentally destroys an important party, he gets sent to obedience school at the worst time! A trio of bumbling burglars is planning a heist. Can Zeus save the day?
Style:
feel good, family comedy, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
dog, dog training, children, pets, heist gone wrong, robbery, burglar, animal, pet dog, satire, criminal, summer ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A family adopts a runt of a dachshund from a shelter. Only time will tell if little "Shelly" and her new family are up for the challenges of entering the nation's greatest wiener dog race, Wienerschnitzel's "Wiener Dog ...
Style:
feel good, cute, satirical, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
dachshund, dog, families, pet dog, contest, pets, animal, satire, rivalry, lifestyle, competitor, ambition ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
75%
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, bullying, bully, contests and competitions, friendship, parents and children, rivalry, love and romance, friends, family relations ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
texas
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Young Dylan’s grandmother decides to send him to live indefinitely with her affluent son’s family. The Wilson family household is soon turned upside down as lifestyles clash between aspiring hip hop star and his straight-laced cousins.
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
humour, family relations, african american, brothers, parents and children, kids and family, children, cousin cousin relationship, cousin, brother brother relationship, boy, culture clash ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
74%
34K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.
Style:
captivating, funny, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
kids and family, children, humour, family relations, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, teenager, parents, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, friendship, seaside, family relations, trouble, kids and family, family business, boyhood, parent child relationship, family problems, childhood, boy ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her best friend's father is falsely accused of stealing the town's prized jingle bells, a young amateur sleuth and her friends must find the real thief before Christmas.
Style:
humorous, light, detective, funny, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, christmas, happy ending, friendship, investigation, saving christmas, santa claus, falsely accused, holiday, friends, friend, community ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
73%
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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, sentimental, touching, sad, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, childhood memory, friendship, animal, boy, american football, children, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Neymar tells the story of two friends who buy a Dog named Neymar.
Style:
family comedy, feel good, lighthearted, uplifting, emotional
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, friendship, pets, pet owner relationship, heartwarming, unhappiness, children, male friendship, loyalty, slice of life, chaos, small town ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A ragtag gang of international talking-dog mascots must save the day and foil the plot of villains planning to sabotage the Youth World Cup soccer finals.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, lighthearted, anthropomorphic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
talking animal, soccer, football team, teamwork, children, friendship, conspiracy, animal, animal life, animal that acts human, football, football player ...
Similarity:
72%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When two friends lose their jobs and find gigs as children's entertainers at a luxury hotel, they sneak in their kids to give them a summer vacation.
Style:
feel good, sincere, semi serious, light, touching ...
Plot:
summer vacation, vacation, friend, friends, best friend, family vacation, group of friends, friendship, parent child relationship, parents and children, kids and family, childhood ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Continuation of The School of the Magical Animals
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
talking animal, school, school janitor, school principal, redhead girl, friendship, children, families, magical, adventurer, magic, schoolboy ...
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
Story:
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, heartwarming, christmas season, satire, kids and family, family life, parents and children, family relations, mother child relationship, large family, family drama ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A mischievous, swag-obsessed boy must overcome his inner Scrooge, or remain caught in a cycle where everyday is a Christmas without presents.
Style:
feel good, funny, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, time loop, dog, holiday, unhappiness, christmas season, bribe, african american man, bribery, christmas spirit, african american, money ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, slapstick, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
childhood, wealth, friendship, children, rich and poor, youth, money, when the parents are away, adolescence, superhero, billionaire, realism ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min.
Story:
Welcome to Disney Channel’s first-ever podcast, expanding on the DuckTales universe. Your host, Huey Duck, brings you stories from Duckburg- relatable tales like fighting an evil mind-reading robot or escaping an angry mob of Beagle Boys! These ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
radio, satire, storytelling, animal, talking animal, radio station, dream world, animal protagonist, radio announcer, animal that acts human, slice of life, heartwarming ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It's magical mayhem when a puppy unearths a genie's lamp housing two boisterous, bickering Genie brothers.
Style:
humorous, light hearted, feel good, buddy comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
children, puppy, dog, genie, magical, talking animal, fish out of water, unhappiness, mistaken identity, chaos, friendship, pet owner relationship ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, happy ending, nothing goes right, childhood, kids and family, neighbor, boy, troublemaker ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.
Style:
sincere, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dog, talking animal, talking dog, pet dog, boy and dog, boy dog relationship, treasure hunter, human animal relationship, children, friendship, hidden treasure, money problems ...
Similarity:
70%
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