Movies like The Black Stallion
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The Black Stallion (1979)
15K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Style:
inspirational, scenic, emotional, cute, sentimental, touching, offbeat, sad, stylized, grindhouse ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
horse, horse race, beach, boy horse relationship, shipwreck, human animal relationship, child, survival, stallion, desert island, single mother, widow, steamship, rescue, coming of age, horse riding, racing, friendship, racehorse, jockey, training, island, youth, nature, minimal dialogue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, 40s
Place:
detroit, new york, bronx new york city, astoria oregon
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Most similar movies to The Black Stallion
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, sentimental and realistic films with plots about family, animal, friendship, family relations, youth, coming of age and friends mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like The Black Stallion: Free Willy (1993), Fly Away Home (1996), Nim's Island (2008), Black Beauty (1994), The Water Horse (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno), he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec ...
Style:
independent film, humorous, semi serious, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
horse, stallion, horse race, horse riding, desert, friendship, animal, youth, chase, girl horse relationship, racehorse, human animal relationship ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
morocco, africa, california, new york
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
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, feel good, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
animal, human animal relationship, friendship, killer whale, animal training, rescue, whale, animal life, freedom, coming of age, boy, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, portland oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style:
exciting, scenic, captivating, fairy tale, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
island, exotic island, little girl, young heroes, writers, imaginary friend, danger, single father, scientist, child, poacher, jungle ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, patagonia, pacific ocean, san francisco, indonesia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Style:
sad, sentimental, costume drama, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, human animal relationship, friendship, happy ending, pets, animal, animal rights, justice, getting home, hopes, horse riding, compassion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Style:
costume drama, entertaining, scenic, emotional, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
loch ness monster, dragon, boy, sea monster, twists and turns, friendship, young heroes, adaptation, animal, underwater, beautiful scenery, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
scotland, europe, scottish highlands, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway, Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
Style:
action adventure, serious, exciting, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
pirate, shipwreck, stowaway, boy, coming of age, ship, pirate ship, ocean, island, leaving home, treasure chest, poisoning ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, captivating, uplifting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
dog sled, dog, human animal relationship, animal, survival, treasure hunt, racing, underdog, winter, mountain, world war one, canine ...
Time:
year 1994, 1910s, 20th century, pre world war one, year 1917
Place:
alaska, minnesota, canada, usa, winnipeg ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, scenic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
wolf, coming of age, friendship, human animal relationship, great depression, dog, tomboy, on the road, youth, animal, human dog relationship, train ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1935, 80s
Place:
usa, washington state, chicago, colorado, california ...
Similarity:
100%
20K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Style:
touching, scenic, visually stunning, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
bear, nature, wilderness, survival, dog, rocky mountains, friendship, bear cub, animal, poacher, forest, environment ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place:
canada, persia, british columbia, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, uplifting
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
animal rescue, killer whale, orca, family relations, friendship, confined, captivity, young heroes, heroes, mischievous children, ocean, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa, australia
Similarity:
100%
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:
50%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, honest, life philosophy, redemption, animal, hopes, horse riding, animal training, children, secrets ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, which starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer. The series ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, atmospheric
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, racehorse, gambling, horse race, stallion, horse trainer, jockey, corruption, bittersweet, heroes, redemption, human spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, romantic, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, horse riding, stallion, animal training, jockey, underdog, against the odds, equestrian, animal, rise to the top ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
usa, kentucky, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: USA, France, South Africa
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, friendship, survival, desert, adventurer, danger, teaching the ways of the world, companion, human animal relationship, animal, world war one, horse riding ...
Time:
year 1999
Place:
africa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A charming sequel to the hit National Velvet follows our young heroine and her trusty steed overseas.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, horse riding, youth, horse race, olympics, novelist, human animal relationship, woman riding a horse, animal, racehorse, teenager ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a ...
Style:
teen, talky, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, animal, hopes, horse ranch, family relations, self discovery, love and romance, parents and children, family life, animal life, introspection ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, wyoming
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
dog, boy dog relationship, child in peril, wilderness, childhood, survival, animal, youth, teenage life, parents and children, labrador retriever, friendship ...
Place:
british columbia, canada, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, funny, fast ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
horse race, zebra, underdog, horse, racehorse, animal life, animal, farm, friendship, rivalry, contests and competitions, rescue ...
Place:
kentucky, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
jungle book, jungle adventure, boy, hyena, tiger, nature, rescue, disorder, animal life, kids in trouble, friends, young heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
survival, mountain, wildlife, nature, youth, treasure hunt, runaway, animal, owl, childhood, bird, camp ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lily's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave her friends to spend the summer on a remote ranch with her nature-loving aunt. She is surprised to meet an unlikely group of friends and Pistachio, the horse she has an unbreakable ...
Style:
feel good, sincere, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse, rider horse relationship, girl horse relationship, ranch, teenager, coming of age, friendship, transformation, adaptation, rivalry, escapades, contests and competitions ...
Similarity:
23%
9K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
wild animal, lion, childhood, rescue, wilderness, animal, boy, adolescence, bully, youth, cheetah, bullying ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
africa, south africa, kenya
Similarity:
23%
419
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, coming of age, beach, youth, island, seaside, racing, animal, pony, horse riding, family relations, grandfather ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animal, teenage girl, summer vacation, poacher, wild animal, jungle, cheetah, coming of age, teenage boy, mother daughter relationship, girl, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
africa, kenya, usa, california, hawaii
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, sincere
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
horse, horse riding, girl horse relationship, hopes, friendship, follow your dream, ambition, young heroes, human spirit, obsessive quest, against the odds, athlete and trainer ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 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:
fairy tale, inspirational, emotional, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, toddlers ...
Plot:
friendship, pig, animal, rescue, adaptation, unlikely friendships, spider, heartwarming, child, friends, heroes, talking animal ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
22%
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