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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
Best tv shows and movies like Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009):
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The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle (2009)
Plot Summary:
A new case for the cult detectives! Not by coincidence, a mysterious videotape falls into the hands of Jupiter Jones (CHANCELLOR MILLER), Pete Crenshaw (NICK PRICE) and Bob Andrews (CAMERON MONAGHAN) during Jupiter's birthday party in Rocky Beach. On it is a recording of Jupiter's long dead parents. In their message they want to communicate to their son the key to an especially tricky riddle.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, fast, detective, scary, suspenseful
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (2008)
Plot Summary:
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by the Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is a threat to their pals, Fred, Velma and Daphne.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: not serious, exciting, humorous, dark, spooky, offbeat
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Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (2013)
Plot Summary:
Get ready to experience the world-famous Scooby-Doo! and Crew like never before in this all-new, original puppet movie! What begins as a routine night for the Gang - which includes the slobbering sleuth and Shaggy eating a triple-extra-large Scooby snack pizza - becomes a mad dash to find the frightening Phantom Parrot, who has a map to pirate Gnarlybeard's hidden treasure. Scooby sniffs out the map's clues, which lead him right to a spooky pirate ship. Ruh-roh! What will Gnarlybeard be willing to do to protect his booty? The whole family will love casting off on this mysterious, fun-filled voyage again and again.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, exciting
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Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)
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
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The Adventures of Food Boy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ezra discovers he has a unique ability to make food appear in his hands. He quickly uses his new super powers to impress his friends and to become popular around school for the first time in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, exciting, light, sincere, independent film
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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, the person who both Dorothy and the citizens of Oz believe can help make her dream come true.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, fantasy adventure, exciting, crying, campy, cult film
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Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
Plot Summary:
At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, not serious, fantasy adventure
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, it premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for two seasons for a total of 25 episodes. Its final first-run episode aired in January 1971. Nine episodes from Scooby-Doo's 1976-78 seasons, first run on ABC, were originally broadcast with the 1969 Scooby Doo, Where Are You! opening and closing sequences. The entire 1976-78 series is sometimes marketed as third-fourth seasons of the original "Where Are You!" series.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, not serious, anime, slapstick, exciting, light, retro, spooky, funny
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Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
Plot Summary:
Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they accidentally burned down. But in addition to sneaking suspicions, there's some romance in the air.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, funny, detective, mythical, psychotronic
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Daphne & Velma (2018)
Plot Summary:
Before their eventual team-up with Scooby and the gang, bright and optimistic Daphne and whip-smart and analytical Velma are both mystery-solving teens who are best friends but have only met online - until now. Daphne has just transferred to Velma's school, Ridge Valley High, an incredible tech-savvy institute with all the latest gadgets provided by the school's benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom. And while competition is fierce among the students for a coveted internship at Bloom Innovative, Daphne and Velma dig beyond all the gadgets and tech to investigate what is causing some of the brightest students in school to disappear - only to emerge again in a zombie-fied state.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, detective, twist ending
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Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman (2008)
Plot Summary:
Serenity Fall's favorite super sleuth is on the case again! The town is alarmed when a priceless crystal turns up missing. The only suspect seems to be a strange man living in the woods known as Shaman. It's up to Roxy Hunter (Aria Wallace) and her best friend Max to discover the identity of the true thief and recover the precious jewel. Could it be the Shaman? Or is it the person no one would ever suspect? In the tradition of Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy, here comes the irrepressible Roxy Hunter. In the young sleuth's second adventure, a priceless crystal goes missing on the eve of Serenity Fall's 150th anniversary celebration, leading the entire town to suspect a bizarre recluse known as the Shaman living in the woods. It's up to Roxy and her best friend Max to sort the matter out.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, captivating, entertaining, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Unnatural History (2010)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Henry Griffin acquired many skills through years of travelling the world with his anthropologist parents. Sent to live with his uncle and cousin in Washington DC, and with the help of his cousin Jasper and friend Maggie, he must now use those skills to solve the modern mysteries of high school.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, suspenseful
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Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective (2009)
Plot Summary:
"I will try to be normal" 12-year-old Ace Ventura Jr. promises. Thats cool, except whats normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators and creating hilarious chaos every step of the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, saga, slapstick, detective, ridiculous
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains...Could it be that their nemesis, mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest foes?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, not serious, parody, detective, slapstick, dark, anime, horror comedy, cult classic
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The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
In "The Three Investigators and The Secret of Skeleton Island" the cult detective trio from Rocky Beach, California, fall into a breath-taking mixture of adventure, thriller and mystery. Only by a hairs-breadth did they escape with their lives after the successful completion of their last case.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into reality and team up with Fearless Leader, an evil criminal turned media mogul with some evil plans up his sleeve. Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the three of them before they wreak havoc.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, melancholic, surreal, feel good, not serious, family comedy, cult classic, offbeat, fast
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Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ghost pirates attack the cruise ship that Scooby and the gang are vacationing on.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, light, melancholic, slapstick, visually appealing
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Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
Plot Summary:
A friend of Fred's, Alejo Otero, invites the Scooby gang to Veracruz, Mexico. There they find a monster, El Chupacabra, terrorizing the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick
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Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang become involved in a supernatural mystery in Egypt.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, feel good, surprise ending, campy
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Plot Summary:
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, not serious, slapstick, anime, exciting, sentimental
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Underdog (2007)
Plot Summary:
A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, exciting, fast, fairy tale, parody, funny
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Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, romantic, offbeat
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Treasure Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a race against a devious cat, the Buddies and their new friends, Cammy and Babi, must avoid booby traps, solve puzzles and explore a mysterious tomb - all in search of the greatest treasure known to animalkind!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Bingo (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy Williams and David Rasche) are moving house, a thousand miles away, but Bingo won't be allowed to join them. Chuckie and Bingo's determination to be reunited is t.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining, feel good, parody, funny, clever, unusual plot structure
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Goosebumps (2015)
Plot Summary:
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, scary, funny, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, horror comedy, inspirational, romantic
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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
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Sherlock: Undercover Dog (1994)
Plot Summary:
Billy, 10, a dreamer, wants to be taken seriously so he can live with his toy-designer father on Catalina Island. Billy's plans get seriously spoilt when Sherlock, a talking police dog, demands his help to rescue his police detective handler kidnaped by smugglers. But Sherlock likes to keep his talking a closely-guarded secret. So now no one will take Billy seriously until he rescues the kidnaped detective and catches the smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, detective
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Air Buddies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Here’s the delightful tale of teamwork and adventure your whole family will love! Air Bud is the proud father of five adorable puppies - the hip-hopping B-Dawg, lovely Rosebud, mellow Buddha, dirt-loving Mudbud, and the big fella Budderball - with an unbelievable secret: They can talk! And the hilarious, hair-raising exploits of these barking, talking, ball-playing pups will have you cheering as they run off on a daring rescue mission to save their parents!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good
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Scooby-Doo (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that affects young visitors in very strange ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, parody, slapstick, detective, funny, inspirational, brutal, anime