Best movies like King
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Plot Summary:
King, a trafficked lion cub, escapes from the airport and takes refuge with Inès and Alex, who then have the crazy idea of getting him back to Africa. Anything can happen when Max their kooky grandfather, decides to join the adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Koko: A Red Dog Story (2019)
Plot Summary:
The true story of an ordinary dog, whose good fortune and ability to connect with people catapults him to fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Biography, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)
Plot Summary:
Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little piglet Rudy back with him in his rucksack. Once he´s home, he makes a terrifying discovery: dad has a girlfriend! Worse yet, she´s moved in with him and brought her daughter Felicitas (12) along! Nickel makes a deal with Thomas: if those two stay, then so can Rudy. When life becomes unbearable for Nickel, he flees with Rudy to ‘Porkland’, followed by Feli and pursued by two dumb crooks. It’s the beginning of an adventure that ends in the swamps of the Oder Valley, where Rudi saves the lives of the two children and finds a new home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Far Away From Raven's Home (2021)
Plot Summary:
Our gang is off for an exotic vacation of a lifetime. However, after the locals mistake Nia as a mythical savior, their vacation turns into an Indiana-Jones-style adventure!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Joey and Ella (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a baby kangaroo gets accidentally swept up in a jewelry heist, she becomes separated from her mother for the first time in her young life. Alone and frightened, a worldly teenage girl Ella, who also knows the pain of losing her mother, discovers her and nurses Joey back to health. However, when Joey is falsely implicated in the robbery, Ella has to work quickly to reunite her with her mother before shes either captured by the bumbling jewel thieves or taken into custody by a determined detective hot on their trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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June and Kopi (2021)
Plot Summary:
A street dog is taken in by a young couple, and the family pit becomes an instant accomplice as he adjusts to his new, loving home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Wiener Dog Nationals (2013)
Plot Summary:
A family adopts a runt of a dachshund from a shelter. Only time will tell if little "Shelly" and her new family are up for the challenges of entering the nation's greatest wiener dog race, Wienerschnitzel's "Wiener Dog Nationals.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Meow (2017)
Plot Summary:
Since ancient times, the earth has been home to alien called MEOW. They come from a far-away planet and have transformed themselves as cats, live in every corner of the world. With their adorable appearances plus the clever mind , MEOWS easily made them to human’s beloved pets, served with endless food. Some MEOWS are uninhibited, live like an undergo mafia boss; some MEOWS are smart, they treat human like minions, live like kings and queens in their homes; some MEOWS are.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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My Giraffe (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dikkertje dearly misses Raf, but also experiences exciting new things. He even makes a new friend: Yous. Raf misses Dikkertje too. So Dikkertje devises a plan to bring the giraffe to school and introduce his two friends to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Que pena tu vida (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man loses his job an his girlfriend, but he really wants to start dating his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy
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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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School of Magical Animals (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ida has a hard time making friends. One day, her weird class teacher announces that everyone in the class will have a magical animal with them. Ida is put to the side of the fox Rabbat. Benni, just like Ida also an outsider, has the turtle Henrietta as a new companion. Together they have amazing adventures ahead of them, but will they be able to fulfill the main requirement of the "Magic Pet Shop": to keep their new friends a secret from adults?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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My African Adventure (2013)
Plot Summary:
This time our already familiar family moves to Africa in order to save endangered wildlife.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, entertaining
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Mr. Moll and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
Plot Summary:
A weekend alone at home with the children - and already breaks out of the mess with Papa minor. For while Moll pushes overtime in the chocolate factory, between his children and the offspring of his boss a merciless battle breaks out: for cotton candy, homework - and the most famous circus dog in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, educational
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Baby Bedlam (2000)
Plot Summary:
A 10-year-old boy's fondness for practical jokes gets him into trouble when a baby is accidentally kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Help, I Shrunk My Parents (2018)
Plot Summary:
Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former shrunken and skeletonized school principle to rise again. When she manages to return to real life she almost defeats Otto Leonhard, manages to shrink Dr. Schmitt-Gössenwein and Felix' parents, and takes over the school. It takes Felix, Ella and their gang to set the levers in motion to save the school and bring Dr. Schmitt-Gössenwein and his parents back to their original size again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Grains and Dog (2002)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy about a various adventures of Körner (Grains) family and their dog.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top National Security agent and zoophobe Tae-ju suddenly receives an ability to talk to the animals after a freak accident?!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Timber the Treasure Dog (2016)
Plot Summary:
A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unmeasurable hate for witches. The intervention of the sweet and powerful Dolores, a good witch who has devoted her life to children, saves Paola from being burned at the stake. Through a magical apprenticeship, breakneck pursuits, incredible transformations and a whole lot of trouble, Paola will discover that fate has something really special in store for her… And so the legend begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a young boy in an under-funded inner-city school discovers the head of the school board is stealing money from fundraisers and lives in a mansion, he organizes his friends together to get that money back where it belongs: in the classroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Little Nicholas' Treasure (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Retrievers (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the Lowry Family moves from New York to Placerville in California, a golden retriever comes to their house. The family starts to take care of her and the retriever, now named Pilot, has puppies. They give all of the puppies away, but later realize that they are an important part of their family. They try to find all of the puppies, which they do. Throughout the movie, Tom, the dad, is caught up in his business and has to choose between family or business multiple times.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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A Loud House Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lincoln Loud gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride embark on a mission to preserve the family’s holiday traditions.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mark & Russell's Wild Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mark is having that dream moment when Ashley, the most popular girl in his class, asks HIM to drive her to an exclusive pool party. Mark's excitement comes to a quick halt when he comes down from cloud nine and remembers one minor detail - he doesn't have his driver's license! He's tried five times and five times has failed. He needs to make this happen! And Glenn Bufferton, known for easy testing, is just the DMV instructor to give Mark his driving street cred. Or. so he thinks! On the verge of road warrior victory, Mark's plans are thrown off course when Glenn learns that his wife is leaving him. A woeful DMV instructor makes for a negative test outcome. So with his license on the line, Mark agrees to help Glenn rescue his marriage. With his vertically-challenged best friend Russell in tow, the trio hit the road on a cross-town adventure that may make survival the biggest test of all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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Pirates (2021)
Plot Summary:
On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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When Mom Is Away... With the Family (2020)
Plot Summary:
Carlo (Fabio De Luigi), Giulia (Valentina Lodovini) and their three children go to Lapland to meet Santa Claus (Diego Abatantuono). Things will not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Ovunque tu sarai (2017)
Plot Summary:
Francesco, Carlo, Loco e Giordano, lifelong friends, depart from Rome towards Madrid to celebrate the bachelor party of Francesco but above all to make, as happened on other occasions, a trip together. In fact, the trip is also an excuse to go see their favorite team away in the Champions League. In their path intersect to Pilar, a beautiful Spanish singer who, unknowingly, brings havoc within a close-knit group favoring, including unexpected, laughter and comical situations, even the come to diversity afloat, insecurities and never those words. On their return, nothing will be as before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Garcia & Garcia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two men with the same name endure the funny consequences of getting mixed up during a business trip.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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