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Plot Summary:
A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey could ever conjure in Orlando, when they meet up with bad guys and a legendary creature.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, mystical, mythical
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mystical, mythical
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Magic in the Water (1995)
Plot Summary:
Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
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Ally Hayden is a teenager who shares her father's interest in dinosaurs and archaeology. When he brings a mysterious fossil back from a dig, she is convinced it's the egg of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. After accidentally knocking the egg to the floor, Ally begins to experience visions, as if she was being transported back in time to the Cretaceous period. There, she encounters several different dinosaurs, including her favorite, the mighty T-Rex.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, exciting, light, breathtaking, suspense, entertaining, futuristic
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Pirates of the Plain (1999)
Plot Summary:
"Pirates of the Plain" details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young boy with an overactive imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Little Hercules (2009)
Plot Summary:
Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic
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Magic Journey to Africa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sincere, captivating, exciting, light, stylized
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The Dragon Pearl (2011)
Plot Summary:
When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) join their respective parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and Dr LI (Wang Ji) on an archaeological dig in China they encounter something trapped beneath a temple beyond their wildest imagination. A real live Chinese dragon. Two thousand years earlier, to defend his kingdom, the dragon lent an emperor his all powerful pearl. Instead of being returned, the pearl was buried with the emperor beneath his palace, and helpless without its source of power the dragon has remained entombed ever since.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, humorous, mystical, mythical, offbeat, serious
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Return to Nim's Island (2013)
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Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, sincere, captivating, touching, offbeat
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A Dog's Tale (2000)
Plot Summary:
Anything is possible when the Professor tells Tim about a supernova that grants wishes. Unfortunately, when Tim's wish doesn't go as planned, he finds himself in a dog's body!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, exciting
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, nostalgic
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The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charles Merriweather, a stamp traveller frozen in time since his last attempt at stamp- travelling, 65 years ago. But Charles turns out to be a girl, his sister Molly! And she is rapidly turning into an old woman. To find a cure, Tommy takes off in a race against the time that leads him and Molly to the exotic and magical South Pacific islands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Once in a Blue Moon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Late-1960s suburban Canadian children work on building a rocket vessel, with the intention of delivering one or two neighborhood children to the moon, whilst dealing with social issues of the coming-of-age, orphan-hood and family veins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good, stylized, semi serious
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Nico the Unicorn (1998)
Plot Summary:
As an 11-year-old boy struggles to cope with a disability, he finds a pony who gives birth to a unicorn which he takes care of.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, semi serious
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The Great Land of Small (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Plot Summary:
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: epic, mythical, epic fantasy, exciting, offbeat, feel good, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic, fairy tale
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The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Billy turns 11 on November 11 he realises he is no ordinary boy.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Legend of Galgameth (1996)
Plot Summary:
The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, daikaiju, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Snow Queen (2005)
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When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering landscape to her frozen palace in the North. Gerda embarks on a magical and perilous journey to find and rescue Kay, finally arriving in the realm of the Snow Queen. But will this little girl in her red velvet cloak be able to match the power of the winter witch?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious, dark fantasy, fairy tale
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Hildegarde, a Duck Down Under (2001)
Plot Summary:
A family's adventure to save one of their own - their beloved pet duck.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Family, Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar (2006)
Plot Summary:
Danish brilliant pre-teen student Nis uses his summer holiday to learn Latin so he can properly study the Knights Templar inheritance on Bjornholm island from sources. His friends Mathias, a dumb jock, and Kathrine, who only comes to spend time wear her dad, who really wanted a boy, prefer childish fun, but get dragged in his quest for a treasure. Mats's strength, Kathrine's connections and even Nis's bratty kid sister's blunt remarks contribute to find out about two brotherhoods, heirs of 12th century factions in the Templar order and deal with danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, touching
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Bigfoot (2009)
Plot Summary:
The whole family will enjoy huge laughs and giant, hairy adventures with this touching tale about a big-hearted Bigfoot. Lost in the forest, he befriends three kids, Percy, Madison and Leonard, who are determined to protect him. When two local bullies kidnap the legendary creature with plans to sell him to the highest bidder, it's up to his human buddies to rescue him and return him to his home.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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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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Crystalstone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, touching, semi serious
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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
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17-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth – but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, entertaining, scenic, gothic horror, period piece, costume drama
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
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A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of magic beans and a mysterious book that records his adventures as he's having them. Accompanied by his sidekick Grayson -- a goose who ate a bean and underwent an amazing transformation -- Jack climbs the magic beanstalk to recover the fabled Harp of Destiny from the evil Giant who lives in the sky. Helping Jack on his perilous quest is the spunky Jillian, a fearless young girl whom Jack meets on his journey -- and who just may have a hidden agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, mysterious, psychotronic
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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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Alaska (1996)
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Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the mountains. Annoyed that the authorities aren't doing enough, Jessie and Sean set out on an adventure to find their father with the help of a polar bear which they have saved from a ferocious poacher. Conflict ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, exciting, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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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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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, teen, fairy tale, psychotronic, mystical, mystic