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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
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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:
childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, beautiful scenery, friendship, little girl, children, secret, mansion, old mansion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 90s ...
Place:
india, england, britain, eastern europe, africa ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style:
neo noir, rough, suspenseful, touching, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, loneliness, organized crime, murder, sniper, redemption, loner, life philosophy, killings ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, iran ...
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style:
touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
first love, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, friendship, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, childhood love ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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116K
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 ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, surreal, talky ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
middle school, childhood, teenager, child protagonist, high school, fat boy, bullying, boy, high school life, coming of age, child, peer pressure ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
guatemala, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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127K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style:
suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa
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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, 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
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35K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.
Style:
suspense, road movie, intense, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
child, murder, car, stealing a car, car chase, boy, sheriff, child in peril, coming of age, crime gone awry, brutality, runaway ...
Place:
colorado, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tyler knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, melancholic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
magic, mischievous children, childhood, book, children, dragon, imagination, wizard, child, parallel universe, fantasy world, magic wand ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Corey (Fred Savage) refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy (Luke Edwards) be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They soon join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special ...
Style:
road movie, touching, melancholic, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, video game, competition, on the road, child, children, teenager, kids and family, underdog, computer game, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
california, nevada, utah, usa, reno nevada
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style:
sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place:
china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
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261K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
stop motion, children, monster, parallel world, alternate reality, weirdo, doll, secret place, heroine, fantasy world, loneliness, imagination ...
Time:
year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, michigan, usa, texas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
children, manipulation, evil child, killer child, psychopath, problem child, brutality, disbelieving adult, creepy child, murder, death, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, japan, usa, asia, new england
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41K
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Style:
visually appealing, sentimental, social, epic, dark ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers, family outing, teen drama, adult
Plot:
orphan, street kid, broadway, dance, child, children, runaway, charles dickens, dog, dancing, happy ending, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, year 1968, 1800s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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239K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, touching, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
body swapping, adolescence, child as adult, coming of age, magic, friendship, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water, child ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, arizona, usa ...
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49K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time:
year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Style:
anime, touching, feel good, fairy tale, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot:
witch, self discovery, magic, friendship, coming of age, supernatural ability, young heroes, cat, wizards and magicians, friends, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
seattle, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, captivating, rough, scenic, brutal ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
island, coming of age, survival, bullying, stranded, isolation, innocence lost, death, childhood, distopia, literature, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
Style:
intense, entertaining, enigmatic, epic, children's program ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
spy, bullying, friendship, teenage girl, childhood, espionage, coming of age, notebook, child, best friend, secrets, friends ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
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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
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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 ...
Style:
emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Style:
touching, funny, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
boy, adoption, wish come true, miraculous event, child, mother son relationship, parents and children, couple relations, family values, desire, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, america
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
family life, sibling rivalry, family relations, high school life, teenage life, social misfits, siblings relations, parents and children, friends, child, middle school, diary ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely ...
Style:
touching, sad, talky, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
divorce, childhood, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, child, marriage, family in crisis, family problems, starting over, crumbling marriage, crumbling relationship, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
Style:
humorous, entertaining, touching, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
childhood, child, mischievous children, kids and family, best friend, friendship between boys, parents and children, lifestyle, coming of age, youth, summer vacation, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, evil man, child, psychopath, missing child, serial killer, confined, danger, child in peril, hostage, killer child, isolation ...
Time:
80s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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