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Plot Summary:
Peter is a cheerful, but not a very obedient boy who is growing In a very ordinary Dutch family. His pranks amuse some and cause a lot of trouble to others. Peter pranks are so numerous and incredible, that hit the front pages of city newspapers. Popularity of the boy is growing every day, and he develops not only new friends, but also a powerful enemies. And then the most exciting and dangerous Peter and his friends adventures starts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 110 min
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Winnetous Sohn (2015)
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Directed by André Erkau.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
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The Wooden Camera (2003)
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A township near Cape Town. Two young teens, Madiba and Sipho, find a gun and a camera. Sipho takes the gun, and Madiba the camera, sealing their fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Family
Country: France, UK, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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My Friend the Vagabond (1984)
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Nazario is a wanderer who makes his living playing an old guitar in the streets of Madrid. From what he gets, he lives together with Sam, an orphan of eight years, which he hosted for charity and adores. The problem is that a wealthy and childless marriage intends to take the child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
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On Our Own (1998)
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Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sentimental
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Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown (2003)
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Rascally Pietje and his Black Hand gang tangle with villain Stark as he and two cronies scheme to steal a priceless royal crown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 112 min
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Cochochi (2007)
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Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost of progress.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 843
Genere: Family
Country: Mexico, UK, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, contemplative, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, 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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Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig (2007)
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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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Someone Like Hodder (2003)
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Hodder is nine years old. He lives on his own with his father, who works nights as a bill poster. One night a fairy appears to Hodder and asks him to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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A Level (2017)
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After getting through the O/L Examination with outstanding results, Anuththara with his friends eagerly look forward to experience their final years in school as seniors in the A/L class. They befriend Ahinsa and the other new girls who join their school. Ahinsa draws everyone’s attention for her smartness as well as her cheerful yet mysterious behaviour. Her irregular school attendance and the rumours circulating about her, make the others suspect that there’s a hidden story behind her cheerfulness.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crying
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Zoey to the Max (2015)
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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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Buffalo Dreams (2005)
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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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The Wild Soccer Bunch (2003)
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The school year is over and for a diverse group of children between six and ten years with no worries, football is king! These kids are convinced they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than just improve their game. "If you want to be cool, you should be wild." But this holiday more bad luck will accompany the due. The relentless rain turns their field in a quagmire. They must be with their parents who do not like their passion for the game. And when finally the sun comes, a gang of older boys, bigger and stupid, have just taken the field. Although not given any choice, the boys challenge them to play a game to solve the problem. All you have to do now is win ... First installment of the series German "The Beast Football Club".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Little Crumb (1999)
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The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb (Ruud Feltkamp). His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien (Thekla Reuten) filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster (Sacha Bulthuis) soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 119 min
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Rubber Tarzan (1981)
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Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
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Karla & Katrine (2009)
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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)
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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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My Giraffe (2017)
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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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Karla & Jonas (2010)
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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)
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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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More About the Children of Noisy Village (1987)
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Bullerbyn är en liten, liten by i Småland. Där ligger tre gårdar. I Mellangården bor Lisa med sina bröder Lasse och Bosse, i Norrgården bor systrarna Britta och Anna och i Sörgården bor Olle. Ja, och så Kerstin också, Olles lillasyster. Fler barn finns det inte i Bullerbyn, med det räcker? Det är höst och vinter och det bara vimlar av äventyr varje dag!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic
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The Children of Noisy Village (1986)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Children of Noisy Village (Swedish: Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn) is a 1986 film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on books by Astrid Lindgren. The movie starred Anna Sahlin and premiered in December 6, 1986 and its sequel, Mer om oss barn i Bullerbyn, premiered the following year. The two movies were then reworked into a 7 episode TV-series that was broadcast in 1989. It is also the name of a 1960 television series based on Lindgren's books. Description above from the Wikipedia article The Children of Noisy Village (film), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Mike Says Goodbye! (2012)
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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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Treasures (2017)
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Siblings Dylan and Andrea set off with their new friends on a marvelous journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Regret! (2013)
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Jochem is the target of bullying. David does not participate, but he dares intervene. The class teacher also does not engage., Jochem seems to attract the harassment, which gets worse every day. One morning David feels guilty. Why did he never opened his mouth?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, sad, captivating, crying
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My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
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Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic
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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)
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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)
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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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Fidgety Bram (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious