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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
189K
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 she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen.
Style:
emotional, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen, heartbreaking, fairy tale, depressing, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend, friends, social misfits, teenage boy, school, bullying, child, imaginary kingdom, child romance, two friends, legends and myths, preteen, boy girl friendship, reality vs fantasy ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, whimsical and crying films with plots about friendship, child, youth, children, storytelling, coming of age and mentor mostly in Drama, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Bridge to Terabithia: My Girl (1991), Peter Pan (2003), A Monster Calls (2016), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Hugo (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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89%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, captivating, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, fantasy world, pirate, fairy, children, boy, pirate ship, magic, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, peter pan, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
london, fictional island, europe, big ben london, england ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Style:
touching, dark fantasy, emotional, psychotronic, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
bullying, childhood, loneliness, cancer, monster, imagination, terminal illness, boy, single mother, courage, teenager, depression ...
Time:
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Similarity:
92%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, visually stunning, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, fairy, magical, imaginary, children, siblings relations, magic, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, troll ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style:
touching, visually appealing, period piece, visually stunning, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, romantic, period piece, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2002, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
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Similarity:
80%
195K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school, child, happy ending, middle school, truancy, deformity, family relations, father son relationship, science teacher, disability ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
76%
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style:
sentimental, sweet, touching, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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482K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Audience:
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67%
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Story:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place:
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127K
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, sincere, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot:
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477K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sad, psychological, atmospheric, rough, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Style:
touching, visually stunning, talky, fairy tale, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
childhood, imaginary kingdom, children, creature, imagination, child, fantasy world, loneliness, island, boy, surrealism, mischievous children ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Best friends Sophie and Agatha who uncover where fairytale legacies go to school: the School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. Sophie, with her princess ambitions, knows she’ll be ...
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teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new hampshire, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, exciting, teen, epic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, ancient greece
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
adoption, father son relationship, orphan, childhood trauma, imagination, writers, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, children, single father ...
Time:
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Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Style:
independent film, bleak, depressing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, working class, childhood, boy, neglected child, boyhood, child protagonist, bird, school, teacher, small town, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire, northern england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, motivational, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dyslexia, teacher, teachers and students, childhood, self discovery, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, dedicated educator, shyness, young heroes, hopes, school ...
Time:
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Place:
india, middle east, asia, mumbai india, africa
Similarity:
58%
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