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Plot Summary:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle struggle to bond, she's given an orphaned horse to foster and train. Dani pours her affection into this young horse, calling her Stormy and giving her all the attention she's missing from her unsettled life. Dani soon realizes that truly caring about others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. And when her uncle and friends need her the most, Dani and Stormy work together to save the day and learn the true meaning of the word, family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, light, thought provoking, captivating, feel good, semi serious
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Our Wild Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy teenage girl from Malibu falls in love with a beautiful wild mustang, adventure, and the father she has never known in the wild Sierra Nevada Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Black Beauty (2015)
Plot Summary:
A modern retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic novel, Black Beauty explores the heartfelt story of 15 year-old Audry who makes the discovery of a lifetime whilst volunteering at a city animal shelter. Rescued from an abusive owner and recovering from a traumatic past, Black Beauty possesses a most unique quality of character, endearing itself to Audry and her Grandpa who adopt the horse in order to give it a second chance and perhaps even help revitalize their own family situation. Aided by dedicated trainer James and tested by the many challenges of equine life, Black Beauty has his work cut out for him as he embarks on a remarkable journey of discovery and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, captivating
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Abel's Field (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seth McArdle (Samuel Davis) is a high school senior with an especially full plate. Not only must he navigate the usual social and academic pitfalls of high school, but he has to contend with his young twin sisters, serving as de facto parent in the absence of his deceased mother and deadbeat father. The pressure mounts when the bank calls with a foreclosure warning, and Seth's frustrations spill over into various altercations with the school football team. An exasperated coach exiles Seth to work after school with Abel the eccentric groundskeeper (Kevin Sorbo). Their relationship starts off cold and rocky, but as the two spend more time together, they realize they have more in common than either thought. The downside: it's pretty much pain and sadness that they share. The upside: God loves them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, christian film
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The Red Pony (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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The Wild Stallion (2009)
Plot Summary:
A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, atmospheric, sincere, serious
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The Last Cowboy (2003)
Plot Summary:
John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, father and daughter clash over how to run the ranch and over the death years before of Jake's mother, which she blames on Will. Crisis comes in the form of insurmountable debt, and it is only by working together that Will and Jake have any chance of saving their home and their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Finding Friends (2005)
Plot Summary:
This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get stolen and the foreigners in the small town automatically gets blamed. From there is a chase to discover what truly happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
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Running Free (1999)
Plot Summary:
The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, History, War
Country: USA, France, South Africa
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, independent film, realistic, feel good, wild
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Hanni & Nanni (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered around twins attending the same boarding school.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, realistic
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Breaking Free (1995)
Plot Summary:
When troubled, cynical teen Rick chooses service at a camp for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life. Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a blinded Gymnast rediscover the joys of competition through equestrian show jumping, they begin to take control of the most important journey of all... a journey called life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Windstorm (2013)
Plot Summary:
While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, educational, teen
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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Heartland (2007)
Plot Summary:
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, medical drama, realistic
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Dark Horse (1992)
Plot Summary:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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My Lucky Star (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Normandy, Louise lives happily in the horse world. Suddenly, fate strikes. Louise left alone with his father and a family friend to Ferronnière the stud where she has always lived. Business is bad, they are on the verge of bankruptcy ... Fortunately there Marquise, a young mare Louise high. Against all odds, the girl and Marquise will fight against the fate that seems hell-bent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic
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The Giants (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Windstorm 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame as a horse-whisperer, she feels that she doesn't have enough freedom and time to ride. After a serious disagreement with her grandmother, Mika secretly sets off for the night in eastern Andalusia, Spain, where she suspects Ostwind's roots are.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, uplifting, touching, captivating, teen
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Rodeo Girl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shipped off to her American dad's ranch for the summer, a teen and her horse Lucky Lad compete for a spot at the National Youth Rodeo.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Second Chances (1998)
Plot Summary:
A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, reflective
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Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann.".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, gothic, sad, independent film
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Chicken (2015)
Plot Summary:
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already precarious living conditions get even worse. Then a chance meeting with the new landowner's daughter, 17 year old ANNABEL (Yasmin Paige), leaves RICHARD besotted; whilst POLLY befriends the guys who run a seedy traveling fair. Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as Polly's abusive behavior worsens, family secrets are revealed, and he is torn between loyalty to his brother and his first true friend in ANNABEL. For better or worse, Richards life is about to change forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Smitty (2012)
Plot Summary:
SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a lovable mutt. With help from the unlikely canine companion, Ben learns the importance of friendship, family and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an old barn behind her Michigan farmhouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, sincere, captivating, light, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Across the Great Divide (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two orphans set out to claim their inheritance - a 400 acre plot of land in Salem Oregon. To Do so they must cross the rugged snow covered Rocky Mountains in the year 1876.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Fine Step (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy strikes when Cal and Fandango are involved in a serious accident, ending Cal's horse riding days forever. Cal's devastation is slowly overcome when his new neighbour, 14 year old Claire Mason (Anna Claire Sneed, Glee) takes an interest in Fandango and convinces him that Fandango's competing days might not be over.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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The Derby Stallion (2005)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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Flicka (2006)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: talky, sentimental, touching, realistic, teen, feel good, road movie, sad, humorous, semi serious
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The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Plot Summary:
When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Just a Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Love That Boy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks before college graduation, Robyn points out that Phoebe’s list is missing one essential thing - a boyfriend. Not wanting to be alone at graduation, the most important day of her life, Phoebe begins an ill-fated quest to find a boyfriend. After the demise of her first relationship - her “boyfriend” didn’t even know that they were going out - Phoebe inadvertently falls in love. The only problem is, he’s fourteen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, atmospheric, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious