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Plot Summary:
A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, horror spoof, cult film
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Barney's Animal ABCs (2008)
Plot Summary:
Barney and his friends are playing a game and finding an animal for each letter of the alphabet, and everyone is excited to give it a try.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, educational
Similar in 79%
Dummie the Mummy (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a dull village where nothing ever happens, a boy finds a living mummy in his room. It's the start of an amazing friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, light, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 90%
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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Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
Plot Summary:
At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, not serious, fantasy adventure
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Swindle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic drama, realistic, semi serious
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Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Plot Summary:
Maya Dolittle (Kyla Pratt) is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the president of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of control, and the president needs Maya's help. It's up to Maya and her own dog, Lucky, to stop a canine catastrophe from becoming a national crisis!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Similar in 82%
Level Up (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four very different high school teenagers battle trolls, ghouls and a dark leader of them named Maldark in a video game that goes haywire and releases the battle into the real world (IMDb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, tense, witty, semi serious
Similar in 79%
I Downloaded a Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young Halloween buff accidentally downloads recently deceased stand-up comic, who ends up helping her foil two bumbling crooks, as well as finishing her haunted house.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, funny, touching, teen
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Don't Look Under the Bed (1999)
Plot Summary:
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, spooky, semi serious
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Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spooky, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Scream Team (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, horror comedy, spooky
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The Barn (2016)
Plot Summary:
Its Halloween 1989, best friends Sam and Josh are trying to enjoy what's left of their final Devil's Night before graduating high school. But trouble arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it's up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within "The Barn".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, psychotronic, slasher, retro, horror comedy, spooky, humorous, scary, parody
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Under Wraps (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three friends try to save their mummified friend, Harold, from greedy criminals by returning him to his resting place before midnight on Halloween.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 75%
Beanstalk (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young boy finds a crate of green beans. When they're planted, they grow a beanstalk to the clouds, where a castle of giants are habited.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Hansen kids are in a jam. Adam and his best friend Duffy have gotten their hands on some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister Chelsea has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter. The only problem is they're both grounded. Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mom Lynette out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man. Everything seems to go according to plan until their little brother Taylor realizes that this stranger might be a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, gothic, horror comedy, vampire comedy
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Return to Halloweentown (2006)
Plot Summary:
As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, humorous, semi serious, teen, spooky
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Spooky House (2001)
Plot Summary:
A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, spooky, independent film
Similar in 84%
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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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, mysterious, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Babysitters Beware (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck with sitters like Ms. Greene who won't let him have any fun. Danny just wants to spend more time with his Mom and Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Cool Dog (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy lives in the tranquil town of Eagle Rock, Louisiana, with his father, stepmother and his best friend Rainy, a German Shepherd. When Jimmy's father gets a promotion, the family must relocate to an apartment in New York City that has a strict no pet policy. Unwilling to let his master go without a fight, Rainy embarks on a cross-country journey to New York but navigating the Big Apple is just the beginning of his challenging adventure.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, road movie, entertaining, exciting, independent film, slapstick
Similar in 81%
Treasure Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a race against a devious cat, the Buddies and their new friends, Cammy and Babi, must avoid booby traps, solve puzzles and explore a mysterious tomb - all in search of the greatest treasure known to animalkind!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi 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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Santa Hunters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas magic. The kids have to protect the tape to save Christmas, learning that believing is more important than seeing.y to claim that Santa Claus is real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, captivating
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Halloweentown (1998)
Plot Summary:
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic, psychotronic, scary, teen, spooky, terrifying
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The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
Plot Summary:
A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
Similar in 77%
Golden Winter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
Plot Summary:
In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" Curtis was buried in a locked crypt, along with a sculpture so evil, that unearthly fates were said to await anyone who looked at it. Now, 20 years later, the Walker men have returned to Walker Falls. They start a chain of events that unleashes an army of zombies on the town. Has Curtis Danko risen from the grave to exact his revenge? And will the people of Walker Falls make it through the night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky, scary, semi serious
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Halloweentown High (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, spooky, offbeat
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Blizzard (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious