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Plot Summary:
Max is hitting puberty, and foxy Ofelia from class has touched his heart. He now plans to spend Christmas break with her or, at the very least, New Year's Eve. Watching her little boy grow up, his mother Agnete doesn't know what leg to stand on. Trying to give Max the best Christmas possible, she makes a mess of things, as usual. With his friends, Hassan and Ester, Max eventually tamps down the chaos and throws a super New Year's Eve bash. Everyone is there, and Ester seizes the moment to hook up with Max ahead of Ofelia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, parody, realistic, not serious
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Karla & Jonas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, light, sincere, captivating, touching, serious, realistic
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Sophie & Sheba (2010)
Plot Summary:
Growing up at a zoo, young ballet dancer Sophie always loved animals - but none as much as her pet elephant Sheba. When her parents are forced to sell Sheba to a travelling circus, Sophie has no choice but to runaway and join him on the road to get him back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sincere, touching, realistic
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Max Embarrassing 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
An amusing coming of age tale from Lotte Svendsen's Max-universe. Now 14, Max is about to decide on an internship and is finding it difficult to choose. He settles, against his mother's wishes, for a bank internship. But mother Agnethe, still quite embarrassing, takes action and enrols Max in a free spirited camp for the sake of his soul's salvation. Meanwhile his lovelife is hanging by a thread; Esther seems less and less interested in him even though he is making an effort to win her over. The Max universe is based on a perpetual idea that children are afraid to appear embarrassed as they evolve into maturity. Likewise, it seems that their parents also become embarrassed when they make attempts to protect their children or express their love for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good
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Fergus McPhail (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fergus McPhail is an Australian children's comedy series that was released on Network Ten in 2004.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, nostalgic
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A Sudden Text (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maude, Jennifer, Melanie, Vincent, and Sami navigate adolescence and the ups and downs of high school in a changing digital world amid the emergence of social media. The group gathers their talents and passions around the common project of revitalizing the student newspaper, with a goal toward changing the world. Brimming with optimism and fraught with anxiety, with a lot of laughs along the way the teens learn a lot about themselves as they explore relationships, commitment, and what it's like to be a teenager in the 21st century.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, captivating, realistic
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Hank Zipzer (2014)
Plot Summary:
12-year-old Henry ‘Hank’ Zipzer is a smart and resourceful boy with a unique perspective on the world. Hank has dyslexia, and when problems arise, he deals with them in a way no-one else would – putting him on a direct collision course with his teachers and parents, who don’t seem to appreciate his latest scheme as much as he thought they would... But, Hank always remains positive and convinced that the next big plan will deliver – after all, tomorrow is another day!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, feel good, clever, touching, realistic, fast
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Shredderman Rules (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nolan Byrd (Devon Werkheiser) is a scrawny and shy 9th grader who, like all the other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell). When their teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows), allows the students to do a computer project, Nolan, who has a particular knack with technology, decides to catch Bubba in action.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic, semi serious
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Millionaire Dog (2014)
Plot Summary:
Pancho enjoys a life of luxury after winning the lottery. His friend and private assistant. Alberto, administers his tremendous fortune and tries to persuade him to give up his squandering ways and become financially responsible. One day, Pancho receives a proposal from unscrupulous billionaire Montalbán, who wants to make Pancho a toy industry superstar. Montalbán's plans don't work out as expected and he arranges to kidnap Pancho, in order to make Alberto agree to the business venture. Pancho escapes, and during his adventure away from his mansion and Alberto, Pancho discovers the unexpected dangers of real life and makes a new friend in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, not serious, slapstick
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My Sister's Kids Home Alone (2012)
Plot Summary:
My sisters kids are home alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Pants on Fire (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jack Parker has always skated by on his lies, especially the one about Mikey, an underprivileged (and made-up) teen who Jack "tutors"... until one day "Mikey" shows up for real, and all Jack's lies start coming true.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, not serious
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, funny, buddy comedy
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Best Player (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chris Sanders and Quincy are both involved in a video game called "Black Hole", and they both want to win the tournament with a $175,500 prize. Quincy then tries to sabotage Chris, but it all goes wrong, because Chris' mom Tracy thinks that Quincy is her Internet date. Quincy lies to Tracy on their first date saying that he is a Home Ec. teacher at Chris' school. Right before the tournament, Chris figures out that Quincy was lying about everything. So, Chris decides that she will "destroy" him at the tournament. Quincy ends up forfeiting the tournament to show that he is sincerely sorry. Tracy takes him back, and they go to Chris' prom. Chris decides to go with her love interest in the movie, Ash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic
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General Education (2012)
Plot Summary:
Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. General Education is a quirky comedy about a family learning to grow together.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic, independent film
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Wild Chicks in Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, talky
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Campus Confidential (2005)
Plot Summary:
School... there is the popular crowd. Teachers favor some students over others. Because of this, Violet decides to start a school paper, which exposes many embarrassing secrets of popular kids who think they run the campus.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen
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Just Peck (2009)
Plot Summary:
At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with parents who schedule family time in their planners and require him to sign contracts with them about his extra-curricular activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
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Sixten (1994)
Plot Summary:
13 year old Sixten really wants his father to meet someone he can marry. Without telling his father, he and his friends write an ad for the personal sections.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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My Sisters Kids in the Snow (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hele familien skal på skiferie i Norge, da far brækker benet. Derfor tager onkel Erik af sted med de fem ældste børn. På færgen møder Amalie skiinstruktøren Dan og onkel Erik bliver meget søsyg. Det viser sig far har lejet en meget lille utæt hytte, men Jan og Michael får det ordnet så de flytter ind i en stor suite. Det viser sig at den er udlejet til fru Flinth og hendes veninder og hun laver meget vrøvl. Familien smides ud, men igen ordner Jan og Michael situationen. De påstår at Erik Lund er en berømt sanger. Erik har travlt med at passe på Amalie, men da hun opdager Dans luskeri med en anden pige får hun drengene til at hjælpe sig. I mellemtiden får Erik også tid til at stå på skøjter sammen med fru Flint.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
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The Anderssons Rock the Mountains (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Svensson family goes on a ski-vacation during the winter holiday. Sune, the family flirt girl-charmer, is yet again pulled into a difficult relationship and his father Rudolf is pushed into difficulty parent challenges while the little brother Håkan is up to no good. The big sister being ashamed of her family and the mother Karin tries to glue the family together and enjoy their vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, slapstick
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No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Blake Michael.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, serious, realistic
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Fidgety Bram (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Rufus (2016)
Plot Summary:
Manny has moved to a new school, and it's not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny's not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus's silly dog antics -- chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a soccer ball with his mouth -- he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog's loyalty to his owner always comes first.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, not serious, exciting, whimsical
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Naturally, Sadie (2005)
Plot Summary:
Naturally, Sadie is a Canadian comedy teen drama sitcom that ran for three seasons from June 24, 2005 to August 26, 2007. It was produced in Canada, set in Whitby, Ontario. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, most of the show was shot inside a former Catholic elementary school in Little Italy, including the school and home scenes. Mall scenes were filmed in the nearby Dufferin Mall.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Student Bodies (1997)
Plot Summary:
Student Bodies is a syndicated television comedy program that was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1997 to the end of 1999. While a live-action series, animations are used throughout as thoughts and imaginations. The segments are usually dark and comical. Though the show enjoyed much bigger success in Canada, the show was originally made for the American market under the distribution of 20th Television and aired on many Fox affiliated stations for one year. The show aired in Canada on Global and YTV. It has been called "an imitation of Saved by the Bell" by critics, and featured an ensemble cast of high school students at Thomas A. Edison High School.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, sitcom, realistic
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So Little Time (2001)
Plot Summary:
So Little Time is an American sitcom starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen that aired on Fox Family. The first half of the series aired from June 2, 2001, to August 15, 2001. The series then went on a four-month hiatus owing to network management changes. By December 2001, Fox Family had become ABC Family, and the remaining episodes aired until May 4, 2002.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining
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How to Be Indie (2009)
Plot Summary:
How to Be Indie was a Canadian television show on YTV. The main character is a 13-year-old Indian Canadian teenager named Indira "Indie" Mehta. The program is a single-camera series intended for a youth audience. The series was created by Vera Santamaria, John May, and Suzanne Bolch. The series ran for two seasons and aired its final episode on October 24, 2011 on YTV in Canada and May 26, 2012 on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Cory in the House (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cory in the House is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007 to September 13, 2008 and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San Francisco, California to Washington, D.C., after Victor Baxter gets a new job in the White House as the official head chef. The series marks a Disney Channel first, as it is the channel's first spin-off. This is also the only Disney Channel spin-off series to be broadcast in standard definition for the entire length of the show. Reruns of the series have not been produced on Disney Channel, or on Disney XD; however they continue to air on the Family channel in Canada. Raven-Symone guest-starred, reprising her role as Raven Baxter in one episode.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, not serious, light, captivating, anime, realistic, witty, nostalgic
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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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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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A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, uplifting, realistic, semi serious