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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 Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in their late Grandfather's country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a mouldy old carpet and a strange golden egg. But when the egg accidentally falls into the bonfire, it hatches into the mythical firebird, the Gloden Phoenix. So begins an amazing journey and the adventure of a lifetime, as the Phoenix takes them to a land of enchantment, magic and fantasy - via a magic flying carpet. Written by L.H. Wong.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw (2004)
Plot Summary:
Help! I'm A Teenage Outlaw is a British television programme filmed in the Czech Republic and first aired on CITV. The show follows three hapless outlaws during the English Civil War, who are trying to bring justice back to the land.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration:
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Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Wiggles perform songs for the children with their friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 11 min
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Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998)
Plot Summary:
A girl from high society joins an all-male expedition to Alaska during the 1899 gold rush.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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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
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The Famous Five (1978)
Plot Summary:
The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: detective, detective series
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Dark Season (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprising six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch. It was the first television drama to be written by Russell T Davies, and is also noteworthy for co-starring a young Kate Winslet in her first major television role.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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MythQuest (2001)
Plot Summary:
MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths by touching an artifact on the screen. They become characters in the myths, and strive to keep the myth to its normal progression; a difficult task when confronted by Gorgos, a trickster God who appears in each myth to try to change it. Alex's initial journey into the Cyber Museum is an accident, but soon they both begin searching for their father within the myths. Later, Cleo develops a tracking program to make it easier for them to decide which artifacts to touch. It was shot in Drumheller, Calgary, East Coulee, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan. The series is not currently available on DVD or video. However, there have been novels adapted from the first three episodes as well as "Minokichi," written by Dan Danko, Tom Mason, and John Whitman. Currently, this series is available on Netflix.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, smart, clever
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Topsy and Tim (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follow the activities of two children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 11 min
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Moondial (1988)
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Moondial is a British television serial made for children by the BBC and transmitted in 1988, with a repeat in 1990. It was written by Helen Cresswell, who also wrote the novel on which the series was based. The story deals with a young girl, Minty, staying with her aunt after her mother is injured in a car accident. Minty spends much of her time wandering around the grounds of a nearby mansion, and is drawn to a moondial that enables her to travel back in time, where she becomes involved with two children, Tom, who lives in the Victorian era, and Sarah, who seems to live in "the previous century" to that, and must save them from their own unhappy lives. Regarded as a nostalgic favourite by followers of 1980s BBC children's drama, Moondial employs extensive location filming and fantastical, dreamlike imagery. The series was produced by Paul Stone and directed by Colin Cant. Other cast members include Valerie Lush as Minty's aunt Mary, Arthur Hewlett as the elderly, mysterious Mr. World and Jacqueline Pearce in the dual role of the vicious Miss Vole and the present-day ghost hunter Miss Raven.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, weird
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Worzel Gummidge (1979)
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Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Movie Surfers (1998)
Plot Summary:
Movie Surfers is a Disney Channel mini-show, that appears in commercial-like form, where teenagers go behind the scenes of Walt Disney-related films. It started out as a TV special that would air when a new Disney movie came out. It was about teenagers communicating with each other via webcams and getting info about the movies. Now, it also appears as 5-minute segments after a Disney Channel movie or series ends. In 1997 when the show began, Mischa, Lindsay, Alexis, and Marcus used the computer to surf the internet to go behind the scenes of upcoming movies. Starting in 2002, they began sitting in a screening room and talking to various actors and actresses of the movie and what inspired the movie. Since early 2005, there's been a brand new cast: Rose, who left early 2006 and was replaced by Stevanna, Josh, Jeryn, and Tessa. They still sit in a screening room but have branched out to do more interactive segments in which they might get to actually get in on some of the filming process themselves. In 2009, Disney XD started airing Movie Surfers. sometimes during commercial breaks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: non fiction
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Dani's House (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dani's House was a British BAFTA-nominated children's sitcom series that aired on CBBC, starring Dani Harmer. The first series premiered on 26 September 2008, and its fifth series concluded on 19 July 2012.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, semi serious, fun
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Andy's Wild Adventures (2012)
Plot Summary:
Children's nature series. Andy Day embarks on wild adventures with his puppet friend Kip the cat. Their adventures take them all around the world in search of weird and wonderful animals.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 14 min
Plot tags:
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Boohbah (2003)
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Boohbah was a children's television show. It premiered in 2003 on ITV in the United Kingdom, and on 19 January 2004 in the United States on PBS until 2 July 2006. It was created by Anne Wood with scripts by Alan Dapre and Robin Stevens. Anne Wood also created the children's show Teletubbies, and Boohbah is produced by the UK's Ragdoll Ltd. and the USA's PBS Kids. The similarity between this show and Teletubbies, both of which have a "science fiction" theme, is notable. One of the show's trademarks is a child's voice pronouncing the show's name in sing-song. "Boohbah" means "doll" in Hebrew, but it is not clear if this influenced the name of the show, or even if the creators are aware of this.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: educational, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, weird, learning, nostalgic
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Pippi Longstocking (1969)
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Pippi Longstocking is a TV series based on Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking children's books. The show ran for thirteen episodes, the first episode being broadcast 8 February 1969 on the then Swedish public service channel Sveriges Radio. The series' theme song, "Here Comes Pippi Longstocking" was composed by Jan Johansson, with lyrics by Astrid Lindgren. The song was sung by series star Inger Nilsson.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, vintage
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Pinocchio (2008)
Plot Summary:
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, mysterious
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The Box of Delights (1984)
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Based on the classic children's novel by John Masefield, the story follows the exploits of a young boy, Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic and danger when he encounters an old Punch and Judy man.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
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Christmas at Valhal (2005)
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Sofie (Laura Østergaard Buhl) and her mother Tove (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) travel to her grandmother's (Vigga Bro) for Christmas before they move to Singapore for Tove's new job. When they arrive at Grandma's, Sofie meets the new family that's moved in on the second floor. She and the new boy Jonas (Lukas Schwarz Thorsteinsson) become friends and discover a secret cave out in the woods. In the cave they find a chained man (Martin Brygmann) who claims he's the Norse god Loki (Loke in Danish). He grants the children three wishes if they'll remove his chains. The children accept, but they are unaware that by doing so, they have just started Ragnarok: the end of the world. In the cave they find a portal which leads to Valhalla, where the Norse gods live. Will Sofie and Jonas stop Loki before Ragnarok breaks loose and the other gods find out what they've done?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 687
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 25 min
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Dinosapien (2007)
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Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films. Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg Creek, Alberta. The program made its debut on March 24, 2007 on Discovery Kids and CBBC. The series ended on June 30, 2007. Each program contains around six minutes of CGI. Brittney Wilson stars as Lauren Slayton, Suzanna Hamilton as Dr. Slayton and James Coombes as the villain, Dr. Aikens. Because of the Native Americans role in the series, the show could possibly be loosely based on Turok. Sci-fi veteran David Winning directed the pilot and first three episodes and Brendan Sheppard, known for his work on Doctor Who DVDs, directed five episodes. Marc Lougee, veteran of several award-winning animated series directed CG animation and Visual Effects/2nd unit for the series prior to filming The Pit and the Pendulum, a stop motion animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale. The Pit and the Pendulum was executive produced by animation icon Mr. Ray Harryhausen, joined by DINOSAPIEN producer Pete Denomme and Fred Fuchs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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H.R. Pufnstuf (1969)
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H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet program. The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast from September 6, 1969 to December 27, 1969. The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule until August 1972. The show was shot in Paramount Studios and its opening was shot in Big Bear Lake, California. Reruns of the show aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 2, 1972 to September 8, 1973 and on Sunday mornings in some markets from September 16, 1973 to September 8, 1974. It was syndicated by itself from 1974 to 1978 and in a package with six other Kroft series under the banner Kroft Superstars from 1978 to 1985. In 2004 and 2007, H.R. Pufnstuf was ranked #22 and #27 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, fairy tale, humorous, stylized, semi serious, weird, campy, cult film
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Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
Plot Summary:
Based on "Prince Caspian" and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Prince Caspian escapes his uncles assassination attempt and call for the aid of four young children from our world. Then, they go for a voyage over the sea to find six missing noblemen and a way to Aslan's kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, saga, stylized, semi serious
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The Odyssey (1992)
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The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha, Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler, and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, feel good, serious, captivating
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The Worst Witch (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, spooky, offbeat, humorous
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Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street (2014)
Plot Summary:
Life is anything but normal for Gortimer and his two best friends, Ranger and Mel, as they navigate Normal Street - an ordinary suburb that has a hint of something magical just beneath the surface.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, anthology, action adventure
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Oliver Twist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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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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The Silver Chair (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rillian.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Five Children and It (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious, gothic