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Plot Summary:
Josh Townsend finds himself living in New Mexico after his father's new job requires the family to move from their home in Utah. While acclimating to his new surroundings, Josh becomes involved with a group of teens attempting to preserve the buffalo and Navajo traditions. Along the way he makes friends and learns important lessons about life in this Disney Channel Original movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, realistic
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Horse Crazy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three kids, who hope to capture their own wild mustang, outsmart a ring of horse thieves and return a prize stallion to its owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Zoey to the Max (2015)
Plot Summary:
After running away and finally finding her dream forever home, 13 year old foster kid Zoey Manning suddenly finds herself in a fight to protect her new family and their beloved dog Max.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Little Heroes (1991)
Plot Summary:
Tomboy and farmgirl Charlene "Charley" Wilson finds fun and adventure with her beloved dog Fuzz and tries to fit in to her small town, while her parents struggle with money and crop production worries.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Karla & Katrine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Karla invites Katrine to spend the holidays with her, hoping they might become best friends. As it turns out, nothing goes as planned. Karla meets Jonas and falls in love for the first time, and she nearly forgets all about Katrine. However, the two girls are forced to put their difficulties aside for a while, as they join Jonas in exposing a local gang of thieves.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, sincere, captivating, entertaining, exciting, touching, serious, realistic
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Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency (2009)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own private detective agency to emulate his father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele, and helps track down a jewel thief.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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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Bobby and the Ghost Hunters (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sanne (Hanna Obbeek) loves stories about ghosts and other mysterious things. Her father Lucas, is a famous ghost hunter. During a holiday Lucas is asked to chase ghosts of the former cruise ship 'Rotterdam'. Sanne is very happy to hear she and her little brother Thomas can come along. On the ship she meets ghost Bobby (Nils Verkooijen), a boy of her age, who has been wandering the ship since the sixties. Sanne decides to help Bobby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Father of Four: In Japanese Mode (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a Japanese family moves in next door, Per and Shin, the same age, instantly become friends. But after the boys cut school, each set of parents' blames the other, causing a rift between neighbors. What will it take for the two families to reconcile their differences?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Mike Says Goodbye! (2012)
Plot Summary:
After bouncing back from leukemia, 10-year-old Mike is ready to leave the hospital, but his mother never arrives to take him home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, feel good, captivating, light, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Train Master (2008)
Plot Summary:
62 year old Jeremiah Wilson is truly the Train Master of Willamette Western Railroad. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad. When Brett Banner, 32 year old heir to New York Eastern talks his dad into purchasing Willamette Western, there is immediately a clash between himself and Jeremiah. Jeremiah is fired by Brett two years from retirement and turns into a angry, depressed grandfather. When Brett's nine year old son Justin realizes Jeremiah's grandson Thomas can drive a locomotive, he kidnaps and holds Thomas' favorite dinosaur ransom. Justin, Thomas and 3 other children board an old engine in for repairs and accidentally turns it into runaway engine causing a chain reaction of events.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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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
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Adventures of Bailey: The Lost Puppy (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bailey, an adorable Golden Retriever puppy, is moving! On the road trip to their new home, his family makes a stop and mistakenly leaves Bailey behind. This mischievous and playful pup sets out to find his family and stumbles across "Sharkarosa," an exotic wildlife ranch. At the ranch, Bailey meets and is befriended by an assortment of animals, including kangaroos, camels, a bearcat, a baby tiger, and "Puck," the sheepdog entrusted with running "Sharkarosa." Will Bailey ever see his family again? Or will he be left to work at the ranch until the "Cows Come Home?".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, humorous, semi serious
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Jessica Darling's It List (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jessica Darling – a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into 7th grade – was never too concerned about where she'd fit in the middle school hierarchy. But before her first day of school, her older sister — the super popular Bethany, now in college—decides to help out by giving her the “It List”—a cheat sheet on how to navigate the middle school maze and rise to the top of the popularity chain. The instructions appear simple enough to follow, but, like life, nothing is as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, humorous
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Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his father, troubled teen Jake (Alex Hugh) travels with his mother to Harmony Ranch, a special retreat for families dealing with problems. There, Jake gets to know Troubadour, a young distressed stallion. Ranch owner Chief (Mickey Rooney), works to calm the uneasy horse. Jake witnesses Chief's determination with the stallion, and begins to see the wisdom in the old man life. When Troubadour runs away, Jake makes it his mission to bring the lost stallion home. The ranch hand Grey Wolf (Roger Willie) explains to Jake the Native American legend of Heaven's Pathway, a mountain that towers over Harmony Ranch, said to be a place where wounded souls go to find peace. With this knowledge, Jake sets out with his new friends Nicki (Rachael Handy) and Isaac (Evan Tilson Stroud), two other troubled teens, on a journey to the top of Heaven's Pathway in search of Troubadour.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Flicka 2 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just as free-spirited and strong-willed as Carrie. The two form a special bond and Carrie opens her heart to her father and a handsome, local boy, but when a jealous rival puts Flicka's life in jeopardy, Carrie must do whatever it takes to save her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Finding Friends (2005)
Plot Summary:
This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get stolen and the foreigners in the small town automatically gets blamed. From there is a chase to discover what truly happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
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The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
Plot Summary:
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Napoleon (1995)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
Plot Summary:
Flicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, sentimental
Similar in 84%
Walking Thunder (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear knows as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, and his family's survival is secured.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
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Miracle Dogs Too (2006)
Plot Summary:
Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, touching
Similar in 75%
Eskil & Trinidad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society spending her time building a great ship that perhaps could take Eskil to his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental, light, sincere, captivating, exciting, tense
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Aussie and Ted's Great Adventure (2009)
Plot Summary:
Aussie, a lovable Australian mutt, embarks on a mission to return his young owner's missing Teddy Bear.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Where Is Winky's Horse? (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Adventures of Bailey: Christmas Hero (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's "Christmas time" at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the "Handsome Fellow," who may be able to make his Christmas wishes come true. With thoughts of tennis balls, stuffed animals and more dog bones then he can count, he sets out to find this legend, inadvertently dragging his brother along for the ride. But when Bailey's misguided missteps cause harm to Duke and even threaten their family's Christmas plans, Bailey must not only find a way to save his brother, but he is also forced to make a big decision... one that just might enable him to finally understand the "true" meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Monkey in the Middle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Chris has just moved to the East Coast, and already his workaholic father is encouraging him to make new friends. Luckily football (soccer) practice is starting up, and Chris meets a few kids on the team-including his cute neighbor Mara. When Mara invites Chris to help liberate some mistreated animals from the local fair, Chris accepts. They head to the fair that night, but get busted by ringleader Malick, who chases them off the grounds. It isn't until the next morning that Chris realizes Momo, a lovable little monkey, stowed away in his backpack. Not wanting to send Momo back to Malick's greedy clutches, Chris must find a way to keep him out of sight. But handling a monkey does have its perks: Mara is spending a lot of time with Chris, and Momo is even lending Chris a paw on the football field. Chris' summer is bound to have a lot of monkey business, but is it enough to drive him bananas?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Plot Summary:
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, epic
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Flipper (1963)
Plot Summary:
Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into the world's minds and hearts in this 1963 film starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin as Sandy (a role he would continue in the 1964-68 TV series that followed.) James B. Clark, a long-time family filmmaker whose credits include "Island of the Blue Dolphins" and "My Side of the Mountain," directs the story of hard times (Hurricane Hazel and its aftermath) and joy (Sandy's dolphin-powered rides through the waves). And two fins up for Mitzie, the animal star who plays flipper.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, romantic, clever
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious, light, romantic, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous
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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