Make believe movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant make believe movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, captivating, feel good, semi serious, realistic and whimsical films and TV shows about / with pretense, friendship, children, friends, family relations, imagination, childhood, dog, teenager and coming of age plots mostly in Comedy, Animation and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as make believe: Labor Pains (2009), My Fake Fiance (2009), Bluey (2018), Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Wild Hunt (2009), Mai Mai Miracle (2009), Tales of the Night (2011), Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006), The Actors (2003), Romeo and Juliet Get Married (2005).
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List of make believe movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman pretends to be pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. When that gets her a bunch of special treatment by everyone involved in her life, she tries to keep up the lie for nine months.
Style:
romantic, funny, cute, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
faked pregnancy, pregnancy, love and romance, dishonesty, boss and employee, pretense, manipulation, job promotion, babies and infants, coworker relationship, teenage girl, workplace romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jennifer and Vince, virtual strangers, find themselves strapped for cash and decide to stage a fake engagement and wedding just for the gifts
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, rom com, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, pretend relationship, true love, engagement, fake relationship, wedding planning, family relations, couples, secret identity, money problems, pretense, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 7 min.
TV show
Story:
Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and emotional resilience.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
anthropomorphic dog, dog, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, game, family relations, family life, cartoon dog, working class, friendship, grownups, childhood ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, life lesson, destiny, ss ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place:
italy, poland, europe, tuscany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
role playing, mind game, escapades, woman in danger, danger, woods, viking, missing girl, folk horror, attempted rape, magic realism, pagan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1955 in western Japan, nine-year-old Shinko knows she comes from a family that dates back to over a thousand years. This long genealogy and stories about it feed her daydreams: she invents an imaginary friendship with a young girl in the Japan of ...
Style:
anime, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, daydreamer, imaginary character, small town, youth, legends and myths, grownups, coming of age, teenager, children, friends ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Tales of the Night is renowned animation auteur Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur & Asmar)'s first foray into 3D animation. A hit at the Berlin Film Festival, the film extends the earlier shadow puppet style of Ocelotâs ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, stylized, semi serious, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
imaginary, friendship, imaginary kingdom, imaginary character, justice, pretense, escapades, imagination, deception, honor, monster, sacrifice ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style:
surreal, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
gay teenager, gender, gay, boy, gay interest, coming of age, teenage love, lgbt teen, lgbt, gays and lesbians, sexual awakening, 13 year old ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
disguise, debt, debt collector, unlikely criminals, hidden identity, gangster, disorder, cons and scams, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, aging, castle ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
forbidden love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, culture clash, love affair, pretense, couples, rivalry, sport team, soccer, football, wedding, shakespeare ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In Venice, the millionaire benefactor Cecil Fox watches a Seventeenth Century play 'Volpone' and plots a practical joke to play on his three former greedy mistresses. He hires the unemployed actor William McFly to act as his butler and ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
greed, murder, twists and turns, dark humor, dishonesty, farce, cons and scams, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, fake illness, murder mystery, redheaded woman, inheritance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
venice, italy, europe, palm springs california, france
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Leela is insulted by a group of space-rednecks (like regular rednecks, but in space) she enters the Planet Express ship in a demolition derby. She emerges victorious, but when she brings the damaged ship home and the Professor sees the fuel ...
Style:
adult animation, witty, not serious, exciting, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
spacecraft, parallel world, cyclops, heroic mission, escapades, rivalry, good versus evil, rescue, danger, dystopian future, sarcasm, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, 20th century, middle ages
Place:
alaska, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the early 1920âs, on the streets of Beijing, the nationâs most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce the incredible magic trick ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, humorous, scenic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
politics, revolution, rivalry, rescue, pretense, gang, state affairs, couple relations, dishonesty, magician, magic, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
china
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, ironic, light ...
Plot:
time travel, fish out of water, abbey, hibernation, disorder, misfit, family life, culture clash, society, pretense, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, greenland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot:
sick child, hospital, friendship, nurse, boy, coming of age, child illness, terminal illness, wrestling, youth, human spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style:
sexy, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
abuse, kidnapping, child molester, child prostitution, pedophile, rape, pimp, child abduction, child molestation, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, kidnapped ...
Place:
california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california, florida
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics ...
Style:
funny, humorous, sexy, light, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mentally challenged, sarcasm, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, lie, track and field, gambling, pretense, down syndrome, olympics, jackass ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of gripping thrillers that expose the dark side of the people we trust to care for us - doctors.
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, medical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, deception, single mother, medical, pretense, doctors and patients, secret, coworker relationship, female protagonist, identity theft, impostor, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Little magic and plenty of imagination turns a young man's room into a hub where various adventures await him.
Style:
light hearted, colorful, surreal, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
creativity, pretense, innocence, escape, friendship, magic realism, unhappiness, giant monster, kaiju, coming of age, radio, imagination ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Sonny, the worst child actor in the history of cinema, goes to a large warehouse and plays make-believe while interacting with a number of large, creepy-looking balloons in the shape of octopi and horses and stuff. Then he leaves to watch a parade ...
Style:
lighthearted, colorful, surreal, absurd, depressing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
innocence, pretense, children, magical, surrealism, escape, talking animal, puppetry, balloon, voice over narration, advertising, christmas ...
Time:
60s
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
Genre: Family
Country: Australia, UK
TV show
Story:
Five best friends living on a quilt take us on imaginative adventures narrating stories where three become characters in worlds like the Arctic, jungles, or magical realms.
Style:
exciting, light, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
friends, polar bear, storytelling, pretense, children, dog, friendship, bear, talking dog, cartoon dog, best friend, friend ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, UK
TV show
Story:
Celebrates imaginative and collaborative play. Join Eddie, Sofie, Koby, Tessa, and Mia as they embark on imaginative adventures, inspired by their playful antics in a typical, suburban backyard! During their adventures, they learn valuable life ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
friendship, children, pretense, teamwork, friends, education, group of friends, mischievous children, adventurer, kindness, empathy, collaboration ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy is an American animated TV series that aired 17 September 1988 and ended in 1990. It is based on the dolls Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle. The plot involved a little girl's Raggedy Ann & Andy ...
Style:
lighthearted, sentimental, colorful, educational, 2d animation
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
pretense, friendship, siblings, adaptation, magic realism, toys, camel, doll, panda, dog, cat, toy comes to life ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Follow the imagination of Lily, a five-year-old hunter, as she creates a world of adventure and friendship from treasures she finds washed up on the beach.
Style:
stylized, feel good, semi serious, captivating, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
friendship, adventurer, escapades, best friend, imaginary character, imaginary, youth, animal life, inventions and discoveries, island, beach, innocence ...
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Eliot Kid is a French/British animated children's television series composed of 53 episodes produced by Samka Productions, Safari de Ville, and The BBC. The series was directed by Gilles Cazaux. Lead voices and voice direction for both seasons ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, light hearted, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
imagination, child protagonist, friendship, dreaming, pretense, mischievous children, adventurer, friends, child, escapades, children, childhood ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
Monster-sitters Esme and Roy use the power of play to help younger monsters through familiar situations, including trying new foods and feeling scared during loud thunderstorms. Little viewers will discover positive role models, and learn how to ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
friendship, monster, imagination, children, empathy, pretense, friends, humour, killing an animal, anthropomorphic animal, safe, problem solving ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
An inspiring way kids to create weird and wonderful things out of everyday objects.
Style:
feel good, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
stop motion, children, childhood, adventure hero, adventurer, pretense, friendship, problem solving, exploration, improv, small town, recycling
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Carola is a mischievous girl who doesn't care much for school- except for sports and recess, of course. Without her good friend Willi to keep her on the straight and narrow, she would really be in trouble. One day at school, Carola has an idea. ...
Style:
light hearted, humorous, whimsical, grotesque
Audience:
kids
Plot:
ghost, school, children, child protagonist, friendship, body swap, unhappiness, supernatural, pretense, imagination, possession, rescue mission ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: South Korea, USA, Canada
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the Palace Pets as they travel to a magical world called Whisker Haven. The place is run by a magical hummingbird fairy named Ms. Featherbon.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, exciting, light ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magical, fairy, pets, cat, fictional kingdom, birthday, portal, kingdom, children, wizards and magicians, animal, animal protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Animal YokochÅ is a Japanese manga and anime series aimed at children about a little girl who has a doorway to another world in her room, from which three bizarre and frequently-annoying stuffed animal-like creatures emerge to make her life ...
Style:
anime, light hearted, cute, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
friendship, animal, innocent, children, imagination, child, friends, fantasy world, anthropomorphic animal, human animal relationship, child protagonist, pretense ...
Time:
2000s
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