Best movies like Sesame Street: 50th Anniversary Celebration!
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Plot Summary:
C is for Celebrate! Join host Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the residents of Sesame Street - human and monsters alike - to celebrate 50 years of learning, laughter, and love. Familiar felt faces like Roosevelt Franklin, Don Music, Sherlock Hemlock, and the Amazing Mumford join celebrity guests Norah Jones, Nile Rodgers, Sterling K. Brown, Meghan Trainor, Patti LaBelle, and Elvis Costello in this heartwarming special.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags:
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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)
Plot Summary:
A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 330 min
Plot tags:
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Sesame Street: The Magical Wand Chase (2017)
Plot Summary:
A playful bird snatches Abby's magic wand during a hot-air balloon ride leaving Elmo, Abby and friends on a colorful adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (1989)
Plot Summary:
Bill Cosby takes us on the tour to Sesame Street as the show goes on it's 20th Anniversary. It had interviews of the cast and crews of the show and memories of the show. It also features a multi-language version of some classic Sesame Street songs, Such as "Rubber Ducky".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, educational, semi serious
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Big Bird in China (1983)
Plot Summary:
Big Bird and his Sesame Street companion, Barkley, the big, fluffy dog, travel across China in search of the legendary Feng Huang, the Phoenix Bird. Along the way they visit with Chinese schoolchildren, watch a Tai Ji demonstration, learn some Chinese words and songs, and meet the mischievous Monkey King.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: China, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Tales from Muppetland: The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four mistreated farm animals seek refuge as a band of traveling musicians in this musical tale narrated by Kermit the Frog.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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My Sisters Kids in Egypt (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Barney's Christmas Star (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tis the season to be jolly -- and to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzzaa! After decorating the caboose puts Barney and his friends in the holiday spirit, they trim the Christmas tree in the snow-covered park. But something's missing -- the shiny, gold star for the treetop! So it's "over the river and through the woods" to grandmother's attic to search for the missing star. Just imagine all the treasure they discover -- little drummer boys and an antique typewriter that's perfect for writing a letter to Santa. After reenacting the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas" the children celebrate with friends and family as Barney places the Christmas star atop the tree!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Muppets (2015)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, erotic
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Follow That Bird (1985)
Plot Summary:
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: melancholic, light, sweet, entertaining, touching, semi serious, feel good, talky, road movie, crying
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Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown (2007)
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Sesame Street characters help Elmo count down the days leading up to Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Fraggle Rock (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
Plot Summary:
Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, christmas special
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Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion on Halloween night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: scary, spooky, meta
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Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Plot Summary:
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min
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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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The Muppet Movie (1979)
Plot Summary:
Kermit the Frog is persuaded by agent Dom DeLuise to pursue a career in Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit picks up Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and a motley crew of other Muppets with similar aspirations. Meanwhile, Kermit must elude the grasp of a frog-leg restaurant magnate.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, uplifting, slasher, avant garde, grindhouse, fantasy adventure, happy, aesthetic, exciting
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, crying, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The dogs of Doverville are in trouble again... but Emma O'Conner is back to save them in a song-filled, seasonal extravaganza. Mean-spirited mogul Finneas James plots to shut down the local puppy orphanage, unless Emma can come up with the money to save it. With the help of some friends, she races against time to put together a musical holiday event that just might save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, sincere, humorous, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Bear in the Big Blue House is a television program for adults and children produced for the Playhouse Disney channel by Mitchell Kriegman and The Jim Henson Company. It first aired in 1997. In 2004, The Jim Henson Company sold the Bear in the Big Blue House franchise to The Walt Disney Company. The characters and show are currently owned and operated by the Disney subsidiary, The Muppets Studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, unusual plot structure, sweet, satirical, visually appealing
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A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
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In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations.The Sesame Street regulars, including Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and others, join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: christmas special, feel good, humorous, not serious
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Plot Summary:
When the twins feel like their mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, nostalgic
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Hey Cinderella! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hey Cinderella! is a one-hour Jim Henson special which tells a cracked version of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella lives with her wicked stepmother (as everyone who ever read the fairy tale knows), but what part of the story is never told is how Cinderella's fairy godmother had help from monsters, a prince pretending to be a gardener, and none other than Kermit the Frog.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
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Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his determination and courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouchland-a place full of grouchy creatures, stinky garbage and the villainous Huxley. Along the way, Elmo learns an important lesson about sharing, realizing that he was selfish with his friend and responsible for what happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, mysterious, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, scary, fairy tale, light, clever
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The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III (1994)
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When a sly magician casts a spell so that he can buy Goldy, the last Golden Bear, Jesse runs away with her pet. Hiding deep in the heart of the forest, the youngster meets a 'Ghostman' who believes all animals should be free.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: absurd, independent film, exciting, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Muppets from Space (1999)
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When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. It's hard to believe Gonzo's story at first, but Kermit and friends soon find themselves on an epic journey into outer space filled with plenty of intergalactic misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious, exciting, slasher, fantasy adventure, funny, parody
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After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, humorous, sweet, slasher, fantasy adventure, cute, light hearted, feel good, not serious
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The Muppets (2011)
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When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet roommate, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sweet, exciting, feel good, funny, cult classic, inspirational, sexy, slasher, ironic, novela
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Bingo (1991)
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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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It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
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The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have very little time to pay a debt they owe. Meanwhile, the Muppets are trying to put on a Christmas show. After the Muppets are confronted by Bitterman, they make a lot of sacrifices to save up so they can keep the Theatre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, christmas special, witty, stylized, feel good, not serious, spoof, fantasy adventure, exciting, parody