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Plot Summary:
Alex Brown inherits the awesome task of saving his ex-secret agent parents and protecting the planet from evil powers bent on controlling the world's plutonium supply. To do this Alex uses his new found magical shapeshifting power.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious
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Beyond (2000)
Plot Summary:
During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun and discover that their every move is being watched and that some things should just be left alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, sincere, captivating
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Power Rangers Mega Force (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the evil Warstar aliens attack Earth, the supernatural guardian Gosei and his faithful robot assistant Tensou recruit five teenagers with attitude to combat the invading forces. Equipped with powers that grant them mastery over martial arts and other forms of combat, the teenagers transform into the latest champions of good: The Power Rangers Megaforce!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, light, captivating, serious, contemplative
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Castle Ra-Tim-Bum (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young wizard must create new spells in his magic book before the planets align. His uncle and aunt, powerful mages themselves, help him achieve that. Based on the award-winning Brazilian TV series.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, awful
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, nostalgic
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My Secret Identity (1988)
Plot Summary:
My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series won the 1989 International Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Programming for Children and Young People.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Level Up (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four very different high school teenagers battle trolls, ghouls and a dark leader of them named Maldark in a video game that goes haywire and releases the battle into the real world (IMDb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, tense, witty, semi serious
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Antboy (2013)
Plot Summary:
12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge. The first Danish superhero-movie. Based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, light, not serious
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A Light in the Forest (2003)
Plot Summary:
Britta, the new girl in school Highland, has reason to be jubilant this Christmas: Her sadness has served to invoke Holly Boy, the holiday spirit, waking him from his deep slumber imposed by a dark elf, King Otto. This sets off a battle earthly and supernatural fury that develop simultaneously. The Young Britta must face her fears and death defying aerial action in the holidays from school, while Holly Boy has to fight against the forces of evil. Both battles must escape to save their lives, school, and the sacred forest, although, in reality, what is really at stake is the Christmas and values.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, captivating, contemplative, offbeat
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The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue Charles Merriweather, a stamp traveller frozen in time since his last attempt at stamp- travelling, 65 years ago. But Charles turns out to be a girl, his sister Molly! And she is rapidly turning into an old woman. To find a cure, Tommy takes off in a race against the time that leads him and Molly to the exotic and magical South Pacific islands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Mystery Monsters (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers they're not special effects at all! Adding to the situation, the monsters' original owner, evil Queen Mara, has returned to Earth to reclaim her property and take revenge on Captain Mike for stealing them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, semi serious, horror comedy
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Monster Makers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Monster Makers is based on Tim Stoker's experience as a Monster movie geek. The monsters in an old non released movie come out of the movie and Tim and his friends in the real world must find a way to stop the monsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, scary, offbeat
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Body Troopers (1996)
Plot Summary:
A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, surreal, semi serious, fast, cult film
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Under the Mountain (2009)
Plot Summary:
Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary, feel good, lovecraft, serious, disaster movie
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The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Billy turns 11 on November 11 he realises he is no ordinary boy.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every hundred years, the evil sorceress Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. For the last fourteen hundred years she has failed... now she intends to conquer all. Young Ben Clark moves with his parents to a new town, where he befriends his elderly magician neighbor, Milner. Ben has a natural talent for magic and wants to learn all that he can from this old man. Ben carries the same scar as the original staff-bearer 1,400 years before. Both Morgana and Milner, who is revealed to be Merlin, see this as a sign that this time, the battle between good and evil will be stronger and harder than ever. Ben must make his own choice between good and evil as he is drawn into a battle and must draw on his own spirit and magic to decide which path to follow and hence, the fate of the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, arthurian, colorful, psychotronic, colourful
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The Evermoor Chronicles (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, light, nostalgic
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The Legend of Galgameth (1996)
Plot Summary:
The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, daikaiju, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon and Letha commit various crimes. It's up to Tia and a gang of truant kids to rescue Tony and prevent a major disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, gothic, epic, saga, cult classic, feel good, semi serious, psychotronic, exciting, light
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The Snow Queen (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering landscape to her frozen palace in the North. Gerda embarks on a magical and perilous journey to find and rescue Kay, finally arriving in the realm of the Snow Queen. But will this little girl in her red velvet cloak be able to match the power of the winter witch?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious, dark fantasy, fairy tale
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Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ben tenison is back in this all new Comedy Central, Movie, Based on the current Alien Force story. Alien swarm picks up with Ben 10 as a full fledged plumber but he's about to leave the ranks to do what he believes is right.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Witches Don't Exist (2014)
Plot Summary:
On her 13th birthday Katie, a talented young girl, receives a magical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch to complete the order of the star witches. Because in it's incomplete form, the order is unable to protect earth against the evil witch Concuela. While Katie is exploring her new magical powers together with her best friend Roy, Grimbeck, the dandy gatekeeper of the star witches arena, as well as the evil Concuela are desperately trying to find Katie.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, spooky
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Magic Silver (2009)
Plot Summary:
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is called the magic hour, and is created by the magic silver which only these gnomes possess. When the silver is stolen, the world is transformed into eternal night. Princess Bluerose sets out on a remarkable journey to retrieve the silver and save the world from eternal darkness. Magic Silver is based on the popular Norwegian television series Jul i Blåfjell (1999) and Jul på Månetoppen (2002). They are considered classic Christmas calender series, and already firmly entrenched in an entire generation's old Christmas memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, captivating, entertaining, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
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The Secret Kingdom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Spellbinder (1995)
Plot Summary:
Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, co-produced between Australia and Poland. It was also novelized by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. The shots were taken both in Australia which represented the "modern" world and in Poland where most pictures that featured the parallel world were shot. Spellbinder was followed by, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord, in which Heather Mitchell reprises her role as Ashka.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous, nostalgic
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Up, Up, and Away! (2000)
Plot Summary:
A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the villains?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious
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Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly satisfy her adventure- lust!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, computer animated
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Zoom (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into a new generation of superheroes to save the world from certain destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, teen, action adventure, exciting, melancholic, idiotic, ridiculous
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Plot Summary:
They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, crying
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, teen, fairy tale, psychotronic, mystical, mystic