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Plot Summary:
Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
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Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990)
Plot Summary:
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
Plot Summary:
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con artists, take up with a ragtag circus, help a freed slave buy his sister's freedom, and then see a dastardly villain get his.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Stolen Airship (1967)
Plot Summary:
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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Everyone on Board (2022)
Plot Summary:
Missing the train is very bad. Seeing it leave with your children and those of your friends you had to accompany on vacation is a whole other story ... that of the crazy pursuit from Turin to Sicily of a father and grandfather as different as they are unreliable.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Muffin (1973)
Plot Summary:
A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min
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On Our Own (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sentimental
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Space Warriors (2013)
Plot Summary:
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Caddie Woodlawn (1989)
Plot Summary:
The exciting adventures of an 11-year-old tomboy growing up in the Wisconsin frontier of the 1860s. Based on the children's book.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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The Pasta Detectives (2014)
Plot Summary:
The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, but scared for life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: educational
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Runaway Smartphone (2019)
Plot Summary:
High school classmates Marko and Angelina and Marko's younger cousin Filip are trying to collect money in various ways for medical treatment of Angelina's little brother. However, Angelina's father, who is a weak-willed drunk, gambles away the money they have collected. Desperation drives the young people to look for Chieftain Vulchan's hidden treasure. Then they have incredible adventures when in a magic way the Smartphone Fillip has brought from the States transports them to the time of the formidable haidouks. At a moment when their lives hang by a thread, the three should instantly return to their present world. While they are going through the time line two of the haidouks - Chieftain Vulchan and Father Martin -- are also transported to the present time when a portal opens up by mistake. Having found themselves in the unknown world of the future, they help the boys free Angelina, who was kidnapped by her father's creditors. They find the hidden treasure to help the sick child,.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
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Nelly's Adventure (2016)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Nelly's holiday in Romania takes a very dramatic turn when she accidentally discovers her family's secret plan to relocate to beautiful Transylvania. Running away to avoid the reality of her fate, she walks straight into the hands of kidnappers! Their leader is an unscrupulous German engineer, plotting to destroy her father's energy project by forcing the family to leave the country. Together with the help of the mysterious Mr. Holzinger, Nelly's parents mount a desperate search for their daughter. Nelly, in turn, befriends two young Roma siblings, Tibi and Roxana, who aide her in her adventurous escape. Together, they cross mountains and rivers, flee from a dungeon, board a moving train, 'borrow' a car and become the heroes of the day!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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The Little Ark (1972)
Plot Summary:
This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953. Fortunately, they and their animals are taken in by a salty old boatman who helps them reunite with their father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blinker-Ciko (1982)
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Roman Hlava grew up with his diplomat parents in Latin America where he had been home-schooled by his over doting mother. The over indulgence of affection and praise has given the boy an over confidence. This is quickly squashed by his new peers when the family returns to the Czech Republic. This leads to neurotic tics and the nickname Mrkácek the 'Blinker.' A stay at a children's camp provides new friends, acceptance, an appreciation of nature, a new outlook on life, and loss of the tics.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Family, Adventure
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
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Maya (1966)
Plot Summary:
An American boy runs away in the Indian jungle after a fight with his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
Plot Summary:
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Conni & Co. (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young girl goes through the ups and downs of school-life.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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Appalachian Trial (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four children are lost in the woods during a camping trip with their parents in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, christian film
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four young children hope for anything to happen and, when they become owners of the Phoenix, their adventure begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
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The Fakir (2004)
Plot Summary:
When two children move into an old house with their mother they find magical mystery involving a lively spirit and a precious diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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A Little Game (2014)
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Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Wild Chicks (2006)
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Sprotte is about 12 years old and has a "gang" with her three friends Frieda, Melanie and Trude. Together the girls take Care of Sprottes grandmothers chickens. The new girl in School, Wilma, wishes to join the group, which Melanie is very unhappy about, and on top of all of that they have an on going revalisasion with a group of boys. Sprottes grandmother is planning on slaughtering the chickens! Will the Wild Chicks put Down their war with the boys? And Will they be able to save the chicken?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Mystery of the Snake Crown (2008)
Plot Summary:
The snake crown is stolen (or taken back) from the Knight Templars by the earth worshippers of Crete; the three kids try to retrieve it on behalf of the Knight Templars.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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The Adventure Club (2017)
Plot Summary:
With the discovery of an ancient puzzle box, a Boy, with the help of his friends, begins an adventure to find his fortune.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Luana, the Girl Tarzan (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl searching a forbidding jungle for her missing father stumbles upon a savage jungle girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Escape from Angola (1976)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They split up to search for help, only to find themselves face to face with some of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa: crocodiles, cobras and other deadly beasts. - Stan Brock, Anne Collings, Steven Tors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Crocodiles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member. Finally Kai has something to offer. One night a shop is robbed and Kai sees the robbers with his telescope. This is his chance to give some important information to the Crocodiles who want to catch the robbers and gain the € 1000 reward. The Crocodiles and their new member will embark on a big and dangerous adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, educational, humorous, fast
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War of the Buttons (2011)
Plot Summary:
1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
Plot Summary:
Told from Mowgli's point of view, it's the story of how a boy became a mancub and a mancub became a man.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Operation Arctic (2014)
Plot Summary:
After stowing away on a rescue helicopter, three children find themselves stuck on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean with little hope of rescue. They have to conquer fear, wild animals, raging weather, lack of food, and find a way to communicate with the mainland.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, scenic, colorful, colourful
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The Treasure of the White Falcons (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three friends find a treasure map from the mysterious 'White Falcons', a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Family, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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