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Plot Summary:
Athletic 12-year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart) shares an enthusiasm for mountain climbing with her father, Tom (Sam Robards). Unfortunately, Tom suffers a spinal injury while scaling Mount Everest, and his family is unable to afford the surgery that can save him. Maddy decides to get the money for her father's operation by robbing a high-security bank. She relies on her climbing skills and help from her geeky friends (Max Thieriot, Corbin Bleu) to pull it off successfully.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, exciting, action thriller, realistic, experimental, fast, sexy
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Catch That Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ida's father suddenly gets a stroke and is rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with a deadly disease with no other opportunity than to travel to USA to attend a medical experimental operation. Unfortunately, the small family have to get the money themselves, as the state doesn't pay for that kind of experimental procedures. Ida has to get the money - and she got no other way than to steal them from the bank where her mother works...... developing the banks intense security.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Fast Getaway (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nelson, played by Corey Haim is a teenager who robs banks with his father in group along with two other friends. Corey Haim Is the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. All he needed was a ...fast getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, fast, nostalgic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Wickie the Mighty Viking (2009)
Plot Summary:
Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to experience a great and funny adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, feel good, humorous, light, parody, educational
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3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three young boys, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum together with their neighbor girl, computer whiz Amanda are visiting Mega Mountain amusement park when it is invaded by an army of ninjas led by evil Medusa, who wants to take over the park and hold the owners for ransom. Kids and retired TV star Dave Dragon, who made his farewell appearance at the park at the time the ninjas appeared, have to break Medusa's vicious plans.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, fast, scary, light, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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The Crocodiles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member. Finally Kai has something to offer. One night a shop is robbed and Kai sees the robbers with his telescope. This is his chance to give some important information to the Crocodiles who want to catch the robbers and gain the € 1000 reward. The Crocodiles and their new member will embark on a big and dangerous adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, educational, humorous, fast
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Mr. Nanny (1993)
Plot Summary:
A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, intense, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, independent film, parody, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Gold Retrievers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A boy and his dog must go in search of a fabled local treasure in an effort to save the family house from foreclosure.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious, independent film
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Dadnapped (2009)
Plot Summary:
Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Plot Summary:
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, exciting, humorous, not serious, spy comedy, teen, sweet, anamorphic, parody, fast
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Plot Summary:
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, humorous, spy comedy, captivating, spoof, parody, not serious, fast, buddy comedy
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Plot Summary:
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, surreal, futuristic, exciting, semi serious, spy comedy, colorful, sweet, suspense
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Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, semi serious, spy comedy, satirical, spoof, cult classic, fast, humorous, sexy
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Plot Summary:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, stylized, spy comedy, action adventure, spoof, cult classic
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Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective (2009)
Plot Summary:
"I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, saga, slapstick, detective, ridiculous
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Monkey Trouble (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, touching, feel good, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Sleepover (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings who discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection. Mom is forced to pull one last job, and the kids team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: entertaining, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, semi serious, action adventure, colorful, feel good, colourful
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Thunderbirds (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated, entertaining, independent film, stylized, fast, psychotronic, slapstick comedy
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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
Plot Summary:
The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein to do anything they want, unaware that their parents are watching every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, light, captivating, epic, hilarious, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Plot Summary:
Max Keeble, the victim of his 7th grade class, plots revenge when he learns he's moving; it backfires when he doesn't move after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, entertaining, light, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, funny, inspirational, clever
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See Spot Run (2001)
Plot Summary:
A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, clever, entertaining, melancholic, not serious, action comedy, slapstick comedy, parody, funny
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Firehouse Dog (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Baby Geniuses (1999)
Plot Summary:
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, intense, semi serious, terrifying, offbeat, psychotronic, light, thought provoking
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Kids World (2000)
Plot Summary:
What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl across the street... who, unfortunately, is dating the local bully. Then, one afternoon, while being chased by the bully, you fall into a sinkhole, which happens to be in an ancient Indian burial ground. You find a glass, which you discover turns out to be a witchdoctor's Wishing Glass. When Ryan Mitchell discovers the Wishing Glass, he wishes that all the teenagers and parents would disappear. Soon it's "Kids World," with no adults and teenagers - nobody over the age of 12 anywhere! You can only imagine what happens next... *IT'S A CANADIAN FILM*.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, suspense
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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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Home Alone 3 (1997)
Plot Summary:
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try break into his house to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, parody, sweet, family comedy, disgusting, slapstick comedy, realistic
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Dog Gone (2008)
Plot Summary:
A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Plot Summary:
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas eve.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 388000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, exciting, christmas special, cute, sweet, parody
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Barely Lethal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, teen, entertaining, ironic, humorous, semi serious, action adventure, feel good, funny, action comedy
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Nancy Drew (2007)
Plot Summary:
Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective, teen, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, semi serious, talky, cult classic, realistic
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The Spy Next Door (2010)
Plot Summary:
Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob's longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, light, action comedy, spy comedy, sweet, spoof