Movies like Bridge to Terabithia
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
172K
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking, fairy tale, sentimental, teen, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends, teenage girl, loss of friend, bullying, social misfits, teenage boy, imaginary kingdom, legends and myths, two friends, reality vs fantasy, teacher, secret, child, tragic event ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Keyword:
dreams, wizards, reboot
Most similar movies to Bridge to Terabithia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, feel good, sad and inspirational films with plots about child, friendship, youth, children, boy, coming of age and girl mostly in Family, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Bridge to Terabithia: My Girl (1991), Tuck Everlasting (2002), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), The Last Mimzy (2007), Peter Pan (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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88K
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, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Natalie Babbitt's award winning book for children comes to the screen in a lavish adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures. Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, period piece, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot:
fountain of youth, coming of age, teenage boy, mysterious stranger, small town, first love, teenage crush, teenage girl, immortality, love, kidnapping, justice ...
Time:
1910s, 2000s, year 2002, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
crying, independent film, psychotronic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, drawing, youth, love, bereavement, art, death, boy girl friendship, woods, young boy, imagination, guilt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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, scary, semi serious, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, magical, fairy, children, imaginary, magic, siblings relations, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, serious, spiritual, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, children, psychic, magic, toys, young heroes, mentor, heroic mission, supernatural ability, alien, danger, parent child relationship ...
Time:
future, year 2007
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
80K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
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, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
336K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, France
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, visual, fairy tale, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
steampunk, orphan, filmmaking, magical, boy, street kid, friendship, robot, childhood, train crash, child, secret ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, post world war one, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, france, iran, madagascar, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
438K
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, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place:
oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, compassionate, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
bullying, childhood, monster, loneliness, terminal illness, life & death, imagination, cancer, courage, single mother, boy, nightmare ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
fantasy world, witch, good versus evil, legends and myths, magic, magical, medieval, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, winter, sword fight, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
antarctic, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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177K
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, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot:
bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, book, bookstore, child protagonist, school, evil force, boy ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
Style:
touching, compassionate, thought provoking, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, disability, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, marriage, autism, mental illness, understanding, unlikely friendships, compassion, husband wife relationship, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sad, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, future, year 1982, 90s
Place:
california, usa, persia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot:
writers, single parent, peter pan, friendship, writer's life, biopic, parents and children, death, family relations, stage play, human nature, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, future, 1910s ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
small town, dog, father daughter relationship, animal, childhood, children, pets, loneliness, single father, beautiful scenery, mischievous children, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black – and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
harry potter, magic, witch, magical, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, time travel, werewolf, teenager, friendship, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, mysterious, sentimental, exciting, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
orphan, imagination, estate, old mansion, secret, curse, flowers, gardening, mansion, true love, child, garden ...
Time:
2020s, 1940s, year 1947, 19th century, post world war two
Place:
yorkshire, england, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 90s ...
Place:
india, england, britain, eastern europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place:
britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
dog, friendship, loyalty, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, animal, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, friends, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s
Place:
japan, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style:
surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visually appealing, visual ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, escape from reality, magic realism, imagination, storytelling, suicide, imaginary kingdom, friendship, stuntman, child ...
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1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
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:
stylized, touching, dark fantasy, light, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, creature, mischievous children, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imagination, loneliness, island, children, coming of age, youth, anger ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style:
motivational, touching, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dyslexia, teachers and students, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, self discovery, dedicated educator, young heroes, coming of age, shyness, school, learning disability ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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:
touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Working-class family man Christopher Robin encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
Style:
fairy tale, sincere, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, epic, stylized, teen ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
mythology, monster, youth, fantasy world, heroic mission, young heroes, greek mythology, legends and myths, demi god, superhuman powers, friendship, greek ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
146K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style:
fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
457K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fish, journey, surrealism, father son relationship, fantasy world, storytelling, childhood, loneliness, mermaid, magic realism, magic, parents and children ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, paris france, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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