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Plot Summary:
Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, teen, humorous, not serious, whimsical
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Phil of the Future (2004)
Plot Summary:
Phil of the Future is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004 to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. It follows a family from the future that gets stranded in the 21st century when their time machine breaks down. The series returns to the US on May 9, 2013 as part of Disney Channel: Throwback Thursday. It also currently airs in select countries such as Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, melancholic, offbeat, witty, teen comedy, campy
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Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, teen
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Zenon: Z3 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Zenon Kar a teenager living on a space station in the year 2054 competes in the first ever Galactic Teen Supreme contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, futuristic, teen
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Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, teen
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Pippi Goes on Board (1969)
Plot Summary:
This is the film version which is a compilation of the 1969 TV Series shown in 13 parts. It is therefore technically the "first" Pippi Långstrump film, although it wasn't released as a film until 1973. Pippi lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a king in the Southern Seas. Brother & sister Tommy and Annika become her friends and the 13 episodes detail their adventures together. Pippi Goes on Board is the USA title, with the original title being "Here Comes Pippi Longstocking!" (Här kommer Pippi Långstrump).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Remote (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Randy (Chris Carrara), is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles across the hideout of three prison escapees. With the use of his remote control toys, Randy manages to apprehend the three fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)
Plot Summary:
By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light
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College Road Trip (2008)
Plot Summary:
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, sentimental, not serious, teen, slapstick, light, road movie, black comedy
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The Cheetah Girls 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the "amigas Cheetahs" learn that, although their paths are not the same, they are lucky to have one another for the journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, teen, teen comedy
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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
Plot Summary:
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dieselpunk, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, fast, independent film, cult film
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Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two orphans named Jory and Tess live with their grandparents. However, their cousins Bart and Bertha try to take them away because the two kids have trust funds from their dead parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap the newborn puppies, Rusty the dog decides to save them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
Plot Summary:
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: epic, family comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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The Luck of the Irish (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jett Jackson, who is the star of Silverstone, is considering quitting Silverstone when it is given a three year extension. During the filming of the last episode, Jett is accidently sucked into Silverstone's world when a prop malfunctions. Silverstone is zapped into Jett's world as well. In Silverstone's world, Jett has to save the world from Dr. Kragg's evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, exciting, nostalgic
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P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
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A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
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Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
Plot Summary:
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, grindhouse, sexy, semi serious, parody, light, road movie, clever, entertaining
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Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Plot Summary:
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande and enemies with the awful knight Sir Nordred. It seems Nordred is out to oust Arthur, while Alisande's father is not the goose she believes him to be but is also a victim of Nordred's schemes. It's as well the Americans have arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: arthurian, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Can of Worms (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Earth to Echo (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the messages seriously, the three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source. But taking matters into their own hands gets the trio in way over their heads when they discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The epic, suspenseful and exciting journey that follows will change all of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, suspenseful, stylized, enigmatic, scenic, freeze frame, serious, psychotronic, light
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Explorers (1985)
Plot Summary:
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, cult classic, feel good, retro, uplifting, intellectual, epic, stylized, mindfuck, offbeat
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Best Friends Whenever (2015)
Plot Summary:
The live-action comedy follows best friends Shelby and Cyd who, when their aspiring scientist friend Barry’s invention goes awry, gain the power to leap forward and backward in time whenever they want – and sometimes when they don’t. Now, they experience the twists and turns of friendship and must decide between fixing mistakes in the past or catching a glimpse of the future. While Barry and his assistant, Naldo, try to figure out how to replicate time travel for themselves, Cyd and Shelby use their newfound power to navigate high school life and Shelby’s mischievous twin brothers, Bret and Chet.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, corny, teen comedy
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Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, romantic, offbeat
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Bingo (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy Williams and David Rasche) are moving house, a thousand miles away, but Bingo won't be allowed to join them. Chuckie and Bingo's determination to be reunited is t.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining, feel good, parody, funny, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Other Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Will Browning accidently creates a clone of himself when working on a science project.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny
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Zoom (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into a new generation of superheroes to save the world from certain destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, teen, action adventure, exciting, melancholic, idiotic, ridiculous
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Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt School Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out - all because he is trying to save the very school which he has always professed to hate!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious
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Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Plot Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe Selig. Now everybody wants to be the dog's best friend as his discovery unleashes a frenzy of treasure hunting among the community's cast of kooky creatures. With help from Uncle Freddie and Garrett (a friend or maybe more), Sara and Beethoven try to help uncover a secret that has been in the crazy little town for years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beethoven's 5th (film), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, light
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)
Plot Summary:
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, entertaining, enigmatic, absurd, teen, touching, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Borrowers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Family adventure based on Mary Norton's classic children's books about a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards, resourcefully surviving by borrowing bits and pieces from the large residents who dwell above. After being discovered by 'human beans', borrower Arrietty and her parents are forced to leave their home while attempting to evade the clutches of obsessive scientist Professor Mildeye.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, not serious