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Plot Summary:
A boy about 12 years old gets detention from his teacher because he got hit with a skateboard. His mother is furious with the teacher and takes her son from school to work. He finds work as a liftboy, but on the first day of his job he sees his teacher and the police at the warehouse were he works. He then presses the forbidden green button. The adventure then begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration:
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Hard Hats and Potato Nose (1974)
Plot Summary:
A few kids make a circus show for their sick friend, and get in some trouble along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min
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Peter en de Vliegende Autobus (1976)
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Young Peter has a difficult time adjusting at school having been confined to a wheelchair after an accident. He still wants to participate in the school outing and play and wants to come up with a way to make the play actors 'fly' like fairies. By chance the local inventor Quirinus Drijfhout and his son Felix have just perfected their 'Zerostraler', a machine that can make any object float in mid air.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
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De Zevensprong (1982)
Plot Summary:
Frans (nicknamed The Red for his red hair), an elementary school teacher involuntarily gets involved in a conspiracy to save the young Geert-Jan Grisenstijn from the hands of his uncle, the evil count, who lives in a mansion where one of Geert-Jan's forefathers allegedly hid a treasure.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 323 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Thorn Castle (1967)
Plot Summary:
A story about two urban boys, who spend a summer at the romantic Kis-Balaton side with an old field keeper, and gradually change their point of view about their civilized life, and fall in love with the nature.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration:
Plot tags: black and white
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Musketeers 20 Years Later (1993)
Plot Summary:
The new adventures of four musketeer friends... Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel "20 Years Later".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Adventure, Family, Music
Country: Russia
Duration: 300 min
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The Prince and the Pauper (1972)
Plot Summary:
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
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Without Family (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 193 min
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Noah's Castle (1979)
Plot Summary:
TV drama series set in a time of social and economic collapse where hyper-inflation has lead to food shortages and mass riots. A desperate husband and father, Norman Mortimer (David Neal), takes his family to a large house in the country where he reinforces the cellar in order to store food and keep his family safe. But as the situation worsens, the Mortimers arouse the suspicions of the starving locals and their sanctuary comes under threat as the news of their food store spreads.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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Patrik Pacard (1984)
Plot Summary:
Series about a boy who meets scientists involved in the discovery of a chemical which makes it possible to grow everything everywhere. He becomes entangled in the operations of secret services who try to steal the formula.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: West Germany
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: humorous, fun
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Midnight Is a Place (1977)
Plot Summary:
This series is about two children who are the wards of a cantankerously un-loving uncle. That uncle owns a rug factory that has the typically brutal working conditions of the time that both poor adult and child labourers have to survive. Life is hardly perfect, but things take a turn for the worst when the Uncle, maddened by the fear of bill and tax collectors, sets fire to his own home to prevent its seizure and dies in the process. This leaves the children with no home or guardian. Now the two must struggle to survive on the streets of London, where they learn that there difficult ways of making a living and help is where they least expect it.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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13 Hours: Race Against Time (2010)
Plot Summary:
Allein gegen die Zeit is a German real-time television series, aired since 2009. Broadcast on KI.KA, structurally, it resembles the series 24.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Katts and Dog (1988)
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Katts and Dog is a French and Canadian-produced television series which ran from 1988 to 1993. It was known as Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop in the United States where it originally aired on CBN Cable/The Family Channel and Rintintin Junior in France on La Cinq. CTV broadcast the series within Canada. When the episodes were filmed the dog’s name was “Rudy”. When the series was aired in the U.S. and France, the name was dubbed as “Rinty” to go with the new title. However, some episodes of Katts and Dogg have the American dubbing where "Rudy" is called "Rinty" throughout the episode. The episode Hit and Run is an example of this. When the series went out in Britain, it kept the title Katts and Dog, but the dog's name was changed to “Rinty.” The show is about the life of Canine Officer Hank Katts and his canine partner who fight crime and the forces of evil. The show’s early episodes begin with Hank just finishing up Police Academy. Later on, it shows the first meeting between Katts and Rudy/Rinty. It also shows the life of Hank’s nephew, Steve, through the death of his mother and his adoption by Officer Katts. A 1991 TV movie had Officer Katts and Rudy visit Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective
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Mystic (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of horse-mad teenagers who are regulars at their local stables on the fictional NZ peninsula of Kauri Point. Worrying incidents surrounding a new industrial development prove the catalyst for a series of events that means the group have to risk everything in order to save their horses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Remi, Nobody's Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Remi (played by Julian Ras) is a foundling, but apart from that he's just a normal boy, who lives an ordinary life together with Betty Barbarin, the mother who found him. Untill his eleventh birthday, when a big truck stops at their door and Betty's husband returns home after many years. Jerome thinks it's too much, two men under one roof. He takes Remi with him in his truck and abondons him at a gasstation.There Remi is found for the second time in his life. He travels with Vitalis and his animals in their old van. This is the beginning of an adventurous journey in which Remi makes and loses friends and through all the ups and downs finally finds his happiness.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10 min
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Jonny Briggs (1985)
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Jonny Briggs is a Children's BBC television programme first broadcast in 1985. It revolves around the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero, his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members: Mam and Dad, older sister Rita and older brothers Albert and Humph. Another older sister is mentioned but never seen. The stories often centre on Jonny's school life, where he and his best friend Pam are constantly in battle with the dreadful twins Ginny and Josie. Previously some of the Jonny Briggs books by Joan Eadington were read on Jackanory. In the books Jonny has two more older sisters - Pat and Sandra. Cast members included Richard Holian as Jonny, Leslie Schofield, and Sue Devaney. Based on a series of popular children's books by Joan Eadington, the programme is set in Middlesbrough, and was filmed in Bradford. The theme tune "The Acrobat" composed by J A Greenwood in 1936 is considered synonymous with the series. The piece of music chosen for the programme was recorded by renowned trombonist Colin Buchanan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
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Belle and Sebastian (1965)
Plot Summary:
Mountain-based adventures of a young boy and his dog in a small village in the southern Alps.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
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A Kind of Spark (2023)
Plot Summary:
Addie tries to get her village to make a memorial to the women who were put on trial for witch craft there. Can she challenge the way her community see her and her family?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration:
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The Flying Liftboy (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Thorn Castle (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ranger named Matula teaches him how to get back to nature. As Tutajos’ best friend Bütyök joins him on his vacation, the two boys learn the joys of camping, hunting, and living off of the land.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration:
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Krummerne (1991)
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The tween, Mads, finds it hard to fit in. Having feelings for a girl in class and a clumsy farther who is a teacher at his school doesn't help. By an uforseen chance of events, Mads becomes somewhat of a hero, but will he win the girl?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Mr. Headmistress (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tucker recently got out of prison, but is soon sought after by other bad men. So to escape them, he disguises himself as the new Headmistress of an all-girl school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pollyanna comes to stay with her aunt, Polly Harrington, the most powerful woman in the town of Harrington. Aunt Polly wants her to concentrate on her studies but Pollyanna would rather make friends with the orphan kids. One day, a woman named Widow Jenn comes to town and Pollyanna, along with other citizens, try to spy on her because of a rumor going around.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Wild Chicks (2006)
Plot Summary:
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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Gentle Ben (1967)
Plot Summary:
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, wild
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Treasure Island (1966)
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As a young boy finds an old map of a treasure island in the mid 1700s, he joins a sailing crew on an adventure to find the treasure island. He does not realize however that bloodthirsty pirates are amongst the crew, desperately wanting to claim the treasure for themselves and are secretly planning a mutiny... Beautifully created adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island', created for German/French television in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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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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Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
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Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparable team, until one day the pony suddenly disappears. Soon after, the ranch owner's handicapped daughter Josie has a wild pony especially trained to pull her cart. But Scott is convinced that Josie's pony is actually his, which leads to a court battle that divides their small Australian town. One child must ultimately lose the pony when true ownership is decided.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns, which starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer. The series originally ran on The Family Channel from September 15, 1990 to May 16, 1993, before cancellation. It has since been shown in re-runs throughout the world. Most of the episodes are set around Canada. During the second and third season, the show moves away from the farm, and has many episodes set in New Zealand, Paris and the United States. The Adventures of The Black Stallion was a Canada/France/New Zealand co-production and was filmed on location in British Columbia, Canada, as well as France and New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France, New Zealand
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, serious
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Visitor from the Future (1984)
Plot Summary:
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: light, clever, entertaining, apocalyptic, exciting