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Plot Summary:
A story about five years old Dimka who decided to by himself a father.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min
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My Teacher Ate My Friend (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tomás, an 11-year-old boy living in his own fantasy world, must use his vast monster knowledge to fight against his new English teacher: a wicked woman who is, in fact, a child-eating monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min
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My Father, My Mother, My Brothers and My Sisters (1999)
Plot Summary:
Young single mother has two sons and a daughter by three different fathers who are completely unaware of having fathered them. Anne's mother conjures up a plot to make everyone involved to go on a beach holiday in Mexico at the same time so that her grandchildren could meet their fathers and their new families.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
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Little Spirou (2017)
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Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
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Rudy, the Racing Pig (1995)
Plot Summary:
Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
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Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ricky Rapper gets a letter from a distant relative who's looking for an heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Family
Country: Finland
Duration: 73 min
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Bambi's Childhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
First of the two movies bases on the novel "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" written by Felix Salten.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
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Nasty Brats (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eleven-year-old George is the new kid in the Apple Orchard housing complex. He and the other kids are terrorized by JB, the tyrannical superintendent. George starts out as an outsider, until he discovers he has a talent for leadership. Eventually, the other kids follow George in dreaming up a challenge to JB's abuse. Then, surprising events bring in the police, but the cops mess up. That's when George's gang of little rascals save the day!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Little Cobras: Operation Dalmatian (1997)
Plot Summary:
Children's comedy about a group of 4 friends who buy a club mascot, a dalmatian named Vulcan, and inadvertently stumble across a spate of dog kidnappings, orchestrated by an uptight mastermind and his 2 hopeless henchmen. When Vulcan becomes the latest kidnapping, the 4 friends track down the inept crooks, without the expected help of the girl's divorced father, a cop working on too many cases.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Family, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Far til fire's vilde ferie (2015)
Plot Summary:
A wild holiday of the father of four and his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
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Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)
Plot Summary:
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spiritual, political, educational
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To See the Sea (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays and Thursdays his father leaves the house. When confronted with that fact, he denies it. On the pursuit of the great family secret Tomas reveals the hidden side of Haris, his best friend, who starts using a camera as the only way to get his mum and brother away from the hell of his violent father. Courage and profound friendship lead Tomas and Haris to the final revelation and an unpredictable conclusion. The whole film is shot and edited as if by a twelve-year-old boy. This technique allows us to perceive the world through the eyes of a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, mockumentary
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The Republic SHKID (1966)
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The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
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My Brother Has a Cute Brother (1975)
Plot Summary:
Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse Safránková), who gave her scarf to Honza to wear around his neck for the races as a talisman is Honza's girlfriend. He met her when he came to her parent's home to repair the TV set. Honza declines an invitation to celebration with his friends. He goes off with Zuzana instead, but she refuses his intimate advances. The offended young man, who is about to serve his two years in the army, tries to blackmail her emotionally and the couple breaks up. Martin tries various schemes to bring them together again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
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Attention, Turtle! (1970)
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Set in 1970's Soviet Union, the story follows a group of young children and a pet turtle. When one of the children becomes ill and taken to hospital, his turtle falls into the hands of two mischievous boys who test the turtle's indestructible shell. A group of girls spring the sick boy from the institution and a race ensues to rescue the poor creature out from under the treads of a giant tank!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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Missing Link (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy develops a passion for archeology and tries to unravel the truth about his ancestry.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious
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I Didn't Do It! (1999)
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Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been invited to spend a vacation at the Hotel Nautilus by his friend Vincent's parents. This is a great place for kids with its cabin hidden among the branches of a tree they call the "baobab". The trouble is that this year a holiday camp settles nearby and that those trespassers immediately undertake to appropriate the "baobab". The war is declared.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Fatty Finn (1980)
Plot Summary:
The time is the 1930's. Australia like the rest of the world is in the grip of depression. For Aussie's one man lifted their spirits, Don Bradman. Arguably one of the greatest sportsmen of any sport, The Don's cricketing prowess was a ray of sunshine to all Australian, especially to one Hubert "Fatty" Finn. He had a dream, to own a crystal set ( very early radio receiver) so as to listen to Bradman flay the Pom's ( English) in the upcoming Ashes Test match. However that took money to buy and times were hard. Fatty uses his enterprise to raise money and promptly loses it as misfortune strikes time and again. Then of course his arch rival Bruiser Murphy is also plotting Fatty's downfall. If he can only win the goat race again he will have enough to pay for the crystal set; or will Bruiser Murphy gazump him? With his band of friends plus Trumper the frog and Hector the goat Fatty sets out to win the day. Hurray for Fatty Finn. Oh yes and Bradman made a record score in the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Tiger's Tail (2014)
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A boy goes on an adventure of a lifetime when Luna, a baby tiger cub, escapes from an animal sanctuary and follows him home. It is up to one boy, his friend, and his dog to return Luna to her home before she destroys his parents' home.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, sweet
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Katya and the Crocodile (1966)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 66 min
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A Boy Called Sailboat (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Tiger (1997)
Plot Summary:
Josh Baker is the youngest son of the rambunctious but loving Baker family who live in a sunny beach side California suburb. He is constantly teased by his brother John and his sisters Erica and Lisa, misunderstood by his parents Andrea and Rick, and taunted by bullies Benjamin and Trevor. He dreams of having a true friend of his own. He wants a pet dog, but his father won't allow it. While playing one day, Josh finds a young puppy who has been separated from his family. Josh adopts the dog and names him Tiger. His parents object, but the kids want him too much for them to say no. Although Tiger doesn't fetch or sit up, he does what no other dog can do . . . he talks to Josh. Of course, when Josh tells his friends about his "talking dog," the whole neighborhood thinks Josh is kooky. When the neighborhood bullies kidnap Tiger, everything changes. What happens next will delight the whole family. What started out as a boy's dream of having his own pet, becomes the adventure of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Man Camp (2013)
Plot Summary:
Attempting to compete for the love of a beautiful woman, a self-declared sissy joins a man camp that "transforms boys into men," only to discover it's run by his dream girl's macho boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Benjamin the Elephant (2019)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Buster's World (1984)
Plot Summary:
The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv ("A Day in the Life of Hector Hansen") and Kom der lys i neonrøret, gutter? ("Was There Light in the Neon Tube, Boys?") – in addition to Busters Verden.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sune's Summer (1993)
Plot Summary:
It's summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up with a great idea: Let's go on a camping trip instead. A lot is happens during this trip and after a while Rudolf discovers that the camping trip might not be as cheat as he thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious
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Ghost (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aircraft designer becomes a ghost after a sudden death. Now he needs to engage a help of seven-grader in order to finish all his unaccomplished tasks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, entertaining, family comedy
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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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Bixler High Private Eye (2019)
Plot Summary:
Teenage detective Xander DeWitt is the new kid at Bixler Valley High, and he's there to unravel the biggest mystery of his life- the truth about his missing father. But in order to crack this case, Xander must learn to work with a partner- fearless investigative reporter Kenzie Messina.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: entertaining, not serious, humorous, detective
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David and the Elves (2021)
Plot Summary:
Christmas is drawing near, but it’s not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert the Elf, who escaped from the land of Santa to figure out what Christmas is all about, David sets off to Tatra Mountains, where his grandparents live, on a journey full of adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min
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A Christmas Story (1983)
Plot Summary:
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 164000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christmas special, funny, cult classic, sweet, period piece, hilarious, sentimental, touching, humorous, entertaining