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Plot Summary:
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live without the sea, although in another sense.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Yellow (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story explores a mother daughter relationship and developmental disability and behavior of a child.Film is about Gauri Gadgil, a special needs child, who also plays herself in the film.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: India, Thailand
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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The Winner (2011)
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Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off his European tournée, he is forced to repay the tour organizers 250 thousand Euros. On his journey, he meets the very colorful character of (Janusz Gajos) a retired high school math teacher and a great enthusiast of the horse races. He dreams of returning to America as a somebody, but can only do so after wining a momentous prize. From then on the two friends endeavor to gain success. They discover true friendship. Together they fulfill Franks dream of winning at the horse races, which in turn allows Oliver to buy back his personal freedom. Having recovered from a dramatically ended marriage, the young man is able to open up to a new love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 111 min
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Taking the Plunge 2 (2009)
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Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec this year. Their love will be purt to the test when a former love of Gaby's turns up at the championships. Gaby finds herself at a crucial point of her life where she has to choose whether to continue competing or follow another dream that she's cherished forever, but which seems impossible to everyone else—her dream to become an astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
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Flip Turn (2022)
Plot Summary:
An autistic high school boy emulates the swim style of his Olympic gold medalist grandfather to become a swimming champion himself.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
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Dear Mr. Cash (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dear Mr. Cash is a story of ten-year-old Heicke, whose obsession with the music of Johnny Cash, leads her to appoint herself as President of his local fan club.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight to a retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Sweet 15 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is more important to Mexican-American Marta Delacruz than her quinceanera -- the traditional 15th birthday celebration that symbolically ushers a young girl into adulthood. Marta is understandably angry and resentful when her father cancels the gala event, but her outlook changes completely when she accidentally uncovers her father's secret: He never became a U.S. citizen.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: hispanic
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Under Water (2003)
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Yonatan, Michal's dad, turned orthodox and left her family when she was very yang. 7 years later, when he appears at her mother's funeral, all the anger and tensions in the family are brought up again. Michal on the other hand, is very curious, and tries to find a way to communicate with her father. They find common interest in competitive swimming, a hobby that Michal picked up, and which her father, as it turn out, used to be a serious contestant in.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Angel in Training (1999)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Desi has two big problems: her cartoonist father is being duped by a sexy, money-hungry agent, and she needs to find a date for a friend's birthday party. An apprentice angel is sent to Earth to help Desi deal with the situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Buttons (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a time of robber barons, child labor, and rising industry, two orphan girls get a little help from their unexpected guardian angels who turn the tide of events and change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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A Mermaid's Tale (2017)
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12-year-old Ryan moves to the town where her father was born—a bleak, dying fishing town. However, exploring the coast, she discovers a cove that is home to a mysterious girl named Coral who reveals herself to be a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Contest (2013)
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Bullied high school student Tommy is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor, Matt, the school's most popular student and star athlete. Tommy is suspicious, but is forced to accept the awkward friendship in order to enter a cooking contest with a big prize. And besides, it's so much easier to impress his crush, Sarah, when he's not getting beat up by Matt and his team. As the cooking contest heats up, Sarah sniffs out a conspiracy, but nobody wants to hear about it. Can Tommy trust his budding friendship with Matt or is it all a huge joke on him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, teen, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Fishtales (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Greek History Professor & his daughter travel to a Greek Island for one last chance to finish his thesis on ancient love spells before he loses his research grant. His daughter attempts to match her father with the local women without sucess until she meets a beautiful Mermaid with whose help the Professor might finally find true love for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, stylized, offbeat
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Northpole: Open for Christmas (2015)
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A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of elves headed by the cheerful Clementine, who helps Mackenzie rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous
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The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
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An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her children to convince her husband (who works for the company) that the first site is where the oil they want is. Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets in delivering presents all around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)
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Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: modern fairy tale, exciting, feel good, captivating, semi serious, uplifting, fairy tale, eighties
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The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Killer Mermaid (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two young American women go on a Mediterranean vacation and uncover the watery lair of a killer mermaid hidden beneath an abandoned military fortress.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Montenegro, Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspense, suspenseful, slasher
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Scales: Mermaids Are Real (2017)
Plot Summary:
Siren has lived her life thinking she's an ordinary girl, in an ordinary town. On her 12th birthday, she learns that she's far from ordinary.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Plot Summary:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, beautiful
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Plot Summary:
Retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale 'The Little Mermaid'.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Mermaid (2016)
Plot Summary:
A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan's business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, funny, romantic, scenic
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The Canterville Ghost (1996)
Plot Summary:
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spooky, captivating, semi serious, baroque
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Mermaid (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Plot Summary:
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental, atmospheric, mystical, inspirational, offbeat, spiritual
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An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
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The Thirteenth Year (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, touching, offbeat, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Miracle on 34th Street (1973)
Plot Summary:
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Little Mermaid (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sweet, emotional, colorful, gothic, colourful
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Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Plot Summary:
A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all something to believe in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, uplifting, humorous, semi serious, independent film, light