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Plot Summary:
A young man working at a cinema on a special premiere night, finds that the films being shown are full of strange and eerie occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, spooky, surprise ending, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like Phantom of the Megaplex (2000):
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Pocket Ninjas (1997)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in New Jersey, a group masked rollerblading children "save the universe" by training to fight the evil Cobra Khan through a series of action-packed montages. Along the way they hypothesize some slapstick hijinks in a balloon factory, and save the day through a hypothetical Sonic Virtual Reality battle. A real treat!.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Bobby and the Ghost Hunters (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost (2007)
Plot Summary:
After moving to an eerie old house in the country, nine-year-old super sleuth Roxy Hunter stumbles into a world filled with unsolved mysterieus, secret plots and spooky spirits! Now, Roxy and her best friend and boy genius Max, must race to save their home, re-unite a lost love and uncover the true villain. Is it the Moody Ghost...or something even spookier?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, detective
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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has she come back to haunt them?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
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All Screwed Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
FREAKY FRIDAY with a twist. Teenisha (Chyna Lane of PRECIOUS, CADILLAC RECORDS) is your modern geeky teen - smart, suffering from ADD, an outcast at school, and an oddity in her own home. Pete is every girl's dream - star of the sports team, confident, homecoming King, and dating the hottest girl in school. Their lives change when this jock and this science nerd switch bodies during a freak accident!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Splitting Adam (2015)
Plot Summary:
After accidentally stumbling into his uncle's mysterious "tanning bed", Adam learns the answer to all of his problems - multiple Adams. With his new collection of clones, Adam is hopping on one wild summer ride with an epic splash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, captivating, entertaining
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Not Quite Human (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, teen
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Remote (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Randy (Chris Carrara), is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles across the hideout of three prison escapees. With the use of his remote control toys, Randy manages to apprehend the three fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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The Secret Agent Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
To the world Ray Chase is nothing more than a klutzy, overgrown toy seller whose wife passed away a few years ago; and his only son Jeremy doesn't get to see him very often, because he's always away on "business trips." What no one knows-not even Jeremy-is that his dad is a secret agent who flies all around the world, completing highly classified missions for a top-secret peacekeeping agency. Unaware of his dad's dangerous, yet exciting, secret identity, Jeremy's world is utterly normal. But all that changes when Ray returns from a mission, bringing with him a high-powered laser gun he stole from a treacherous female foreign guns dealer. Ray tells his son the gun is only a toy, but his secret comes out when the dealer sends her henchmen to capture Ray and retrieve the gun. The nasty henchmen get Ray, but Jeremy escapes with the wanted firearm. After he learns how to use the laser gun, Jeremy gathers his friends, and together they hatch a clever plan to rescue Ray.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, spy comedy, independent film, realistic, slapstick
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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 Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their friends on live national television, while the island itself is only a short distance away from Sacramento!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen
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Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of how Mystery Inc. was formed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, detective, exciting, suspenseful, slapstick
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The Scream Team (2002)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, exciting, horror comedy, spooky
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Girl Vs. Monster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, parody, scenic, teen, spooky, spoof
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Finding Kelly (2000)
Plot Summary:
The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have a great, unforced camaraderie with each other. None of the tiresome sniping and bickering that goes on in so many other films of this ilk. And they are given some wonderfully smart, observant dialogue, tons of it. In fact, the film is overflowing with it, much of it tricky and the two actors handle it all like a couple of seasoned pros.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good, tense, suspenseful, tension, suspense
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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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Best Player (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chris Sanders and Quincy are both involved in a video game called "Black Hole", and they both want to win the tournament with a $175,500 prize. Quincy then tries to sabotage Chris, but it all goes wrong, because Chris' mom Tracy thinks that Quincy is her Internet date. Quincy lies to Tracy on their first date saying that he is a Home Ec. teacher at Chris' school. Right before the tournament, Chris figures out that Quincy was lying about everything. So, Chris decides that she will "destroy" him at the tournament. Quincy ends up forfeiting the tournament to show that he is sincerely sorry. Tracy takes him back, and they go to Chris' prom. Chris decides to go with her love interest in the movie, Ash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic
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Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Hansen kids are in a jam. Adam and his best friend Duffy have gotten their hands on some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister Chelsea has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter. The only problem is they're both grounded. Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mom Lynette out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man. Everything seems to go according to plan until their little brother Taylor realizes that this stranger might be a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, gothic, horror comedy, vampire comedy
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Return to Halloweentown (2006)
Plot Summary:
As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, humorous, semi serious, teen, spooky
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Plot Summary:
While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. Concerned, Josh, Drake's stepbrother, calls the cops about a disturbance, but they are confused and think the entire party is the disturbance, and even arrest the kind Josh. Requiring Josh's help to keep his promise, Drake tries to break his brother out of prison, but is caught. At court, the judge decides that the two must give the girl and her foster family the best Christmas ever, or face years in jail. They face many problems along the way, including Officer Perry, a strict detective that hates Christmas; a colorful group of foster children; and a wild wood chipper. It is up to Drake and Josh to save Christmas for the good-hearted children, or face the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, buddy comedy
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The Haunted Hathaways (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Haunted Hathaways" follows the adventures of a not-so-typical blended family. When Michelle Hathaway relocates to New Orleans, LA., to open a bakery with her daughters Taylor and Frankie, they quickly learn that life in the “Big Easy” is very different. Unbeknownst to them, their new home is already occupied by a ghost family comprised of jazz musician father Ray Preston and his sons Miles and Louie. After agreeing to live under one roof, they come to care about and rely on one another while driving each other crazy – just like any normal family would. Though leery at first, the Hathaways soon discover how much fun life can be when living with ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, feel good, semi serious, funny, spooky, captivating
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The Kids Who Saved Summer (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of youngsters trying to save their playground from an unscrupulous developer who wants to build a factory there.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Quints (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's life changes in ways she had never imagined. She discovers she might not want the same things her parents want for her, but nonetheless, her parents focus all of their attention on her baby brothers and sisters. But when one of her brothers gets terribly ill (from quints) she discovers that she really doesn't mind the babies, and that she does have the courage to let her parents know she has dreams of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Hounded (2001)
Plot Summary:
A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Other Me (2000)
Plot Summary:
Will Browning accidently creates a clone of himself when working on a science project.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny
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The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
Plot Summary:
A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Boys Will Be Boys (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a corporate barbecue.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)
Plot Summary:
In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" Curtis was buried in a locked crypt, along with a sculpture so evil, that unearthly fates were said to await anyone who looked at it. Now, 20 years later, the Walker men have returned to Walker Falls. They start a chain of events that unleashes an army of zombies on the town. Has Curtis Danko risen from the grave to exact his revenge? And will the people of Walker Falls make it through the night?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, spooky, scary, semi serious
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Halloweentown High (2004)
Plot Summary:
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, teen, spooky, offbeat