Movies like Bookworm
If you like "Bookworm" you are looking for movies about / with wilderness, thief, fishing, illusionist, party, magician and kidnapping themes of Adventure, Comedy and Drama genre shot in New Zealand.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Bookworm (2024)
1K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
Plot:
wilderness, thief, fishing, illusionist, party, magician, kidnapping, betrayal, traveler, hospital, fire, celebrity, coma, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, rain, car theft, hallucination, camping, black panthers, sandwich, absent father, reward, sarcasm, car wreck ...
Place:
new york, las vegas, new zealand, american
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Bookworm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and independent film films with plots about coming of age, friendship, family relations, road trip, storytelling, father daughter relationship and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Bookworm: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), White Water Summer (1987), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Everything Is Illuminated (2005), The Great Buck Howard (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style:
visually stunning, bloody, sweet, independent film, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, nature, adoption, wilderness, boy, hunting, juvenile delinquent, fat boy, manhunt, childhood, sarcasm, dog ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
new zealand, indiana, persia, oceania
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style:
intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
wilderness, river, coming of age, friendship, survival, summer, nature, camping, youth, camp, mountain climbing, chess ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
70%
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), ...
Style:
road movie, gothic, epic, juvenile, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, childhood, slavery, friendship, coming of age, interracial friendship, child, racism, river, runaway, medieval, youth ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1993, 1840s, 19th century
Place:
missouri, mississippi, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style:
touching, road movie, tragicomedy, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of ...
Style:
entertaining, witty, stylized, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot:
college dropout, twists and turns, happy ending, career, life philosophy, character study, job seeking, unlikely friendships, magic show, showbiz, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, las vegas, boston ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, cerebral, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, home schooling, family drama, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, capitalism, parenthood, children, survivalist, socialism, precocious child, funeral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
washington state, nebraska, new mexico, xian, oregon
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
AT HOME WITH THE WEBBERS explores what happens when a typical American family is turned into a hot, new, totally uncensored TV show. Viewers get hooked on the real-life soap, while the Webbers grapple with their unexpected fame.
Style:
sexual, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
family relations, obsession, dysfunctional family, estate, couples, lifestyle, dealing with death, society, actor's life, suburban life, family life, suburbs ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After 10 years working as a supervisor for an oil drilling firm in Saudi Arabia, Oca (Jinggoy Estrada, in a somewhat restraint performance) returns to the Philippines to visit his family. The film opens with his wife (Lorna Tolentino), best friend ...
Plot:
car accident, birthday party, airport, stowaway, father daughter relationship, real estate, party, reconciliation, hospital, mother in law, doctor, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
54%
Movie in collections
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, raunchy, rom com, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, female protagonist, woman punches a man in the face, black, female bonding, motel, african american, african american woman, bare chested male, male nudity, women, promise ...
Time:
year 2017, future, year 2011, year 2000, year 2012 ...
Place:
louisiana, indiana, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, juvenile delinquency, nothing goes right, grudge, teenage life, social decay, brother sister relationship, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, obsessive quest, human nature, hopes, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, road trip, friendship, travel, married woman, cross country ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, new york, seattle
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An under-employed and over-indulgent misfit aims to turn his life around through sobriety and religion while moving into the least supportive environment for either: an apartment with his old high school friends and indie band The Entropy All-Stars.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, humorous, crying ...
Plot:
friendship, new beginning, self discovery, betrayal, breakup, money problems, christianity, drug dealer, immaturity, party, church, rock band ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, teaching the ways of the world, happiness, friendship, loneliness, midlife crisis, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, road movie, black comedy, cerebral ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, psychedelia, trippy, addiction, surrealism, american dream, casino, marijuana, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A small film with a big heart, SECOND HAND WEDDING is a bittersweet dramatic comedy set in the present, in a time when trademe and e-bay threaten the primeval urge for a firsthand crack at the second-hand. Jill keeps the dream alive until she is ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
wedding planning, wedding, mother daughter relationship, bittersweet, family drama, heartwarming, father daughter relationship, small town, community, slice of life, wedding day, working class ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot:
old age, retirement, comedy team, heart attack, spy, odd couple, friendship, artists and showbiz, human nature, betrayal, elderly, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.
Style:
road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, manly, teens
Plot:
father daughter reunion, kidnapping, chase, father daughter relationship, child abuse, female reporter, ex convict, car chase, convict, road trip, criminal, reporter ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, las vegas
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from ...
Style:
feel good, funny, sweet, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
adoption, parenting, foster home, foster parent, adoptive father adopted son relationship, adolescence, couples, problem child, anger, substance abuse, amusement park, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
41%
Movie in collections
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
J. Kessels is the story of the bizarre road trip taken by a French literary pulp writer with his favourite character J. Kessels. The journey takes them from Tilburg to the Hamburg Reeperbahn in Kessels' old American 'Kamikaze' clunker ...
Style:
road movie, tragicomedy, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
road trip, nostalgia, dead body, misadventure, identity crisis, friendship, memory, midlife crisis, anti hero, moral ambiguity, absurdism, hallucination ...
Place:
hamburg germany, netherlands
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After witnessing a murder, a hapless pair of misfits escape their own near death experience by posing as male strippers - only to find themselves neck deep in even bigger trouble.
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
misfit, gangster, kidnapping, crime gone awry, odd couple, nothing goes right, disorder, male stripper, dancer, strip club, mistaken identity, club ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Style:
touching, road movie, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, tourette's syndrome, mental illness, friendship, coming of age, on the road, mentally unstable protagonist, father son relationship, obsessive quest, escapades, social misfits, mental health ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, tokyo, reno nevada
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Self-centered twenty-something Penny Black (Astra McLaren) travels around New Zealand in an attempt to save her job and opulent lifestyle. Along the way she meets a guy name Guy (Anton Tennet); who makes her slow her down and question the world.
Style:
road movie, independent film, contemplative, existential, atmospheric
Plot:
road trip, personal growth, self discovery, coming of age, travel, female protagonist, slice of life, identity crisis, intimate, bittersweet, youth, modern life ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, runaway, friendship, summer, lifestyle change, friendship between boys, high school, teenage runaway, rebelliousness, teenager, hospital, childhood ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa, california, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
Movie in collections
17K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, psychological, serious, f word
Plot:
solitude, living alone, new life, nature, family tragedy, female protagonist, mountain, wilderness, rocky mountains, mountain cabin, fishing, death of family ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, chicago
Similarity:
38%
232
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Ugur and Baris run a DVD Shop together. They are funded by Baris' wealthy uncle, Engin. Ugur is in love with Leyla, Engin's little sister, also Baris' cousin. Leyla too, favors Ugur in a special way, and they meet from time to time in ...
Style:
independent film, romantic comedy, feel good, satirical, mockumentary ...
Plot:
friendship, behind the scenes, love story, heartwarming, family business, coming of age, small town life, midlife crisis, urban, unrequited love, turk, heroism ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
6 gun wielding people are trapped in a NY loft with $4 million in stolen diamonds.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, criminal's revenge, betrayal, law enforcement, dishonesty, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, thief, diamond, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
482K
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, cult classic, atmospheric, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, teenager, boy, children, youth, summer, friends, courage, on the road ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
oregon, usa, normandy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two ill-prepared slacker buddies head into the wilderness hoping their documented exploits catch the eye of their reality television survival idol, Bear. They should have left their girlfriends at home.
Style:
buddy comedy, situational comedy, sitcom, lighthearted, mockumentary ...
Plot:
woods, forest, slacker, wilderness, male friendship, survival, fish out of water, backwoods, satire, irony, young adult, bromance ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style:
scenic, light, humorous, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, hiking, camping, elderly, camping trip, escapades, road trip, wilderness, writers, woods, foul language, backpacking ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
appalachia, new hampshire, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.
Style:
captivating, light, entertaining
Plot:
party, dysfunctional family, manipulation, criminal, life, manipulative person, life is a bitch, manipulative behavior, teenager, teenage life, child, women ...
Similarity:
35%
Related movie lists
