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Plot Summary:
Swedish family adventure in six parts about the detective Ture Sventon, who takes his neighbor children Siv and Gittan on a dizzying journey. His cunning arch enemy Ville Vessla has escaped from prison and the odd trio must quickly put an end to his horrendous plan. The star-studded cast includes Robert Gustafsson, Johan Glans, Björn Gustafsson and Helena Bergström.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 260 min
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The Ambassador (2020)
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At the Swedish embassy in Mexico City, the staff tries to do everything to promote the image of Sweden. But for the selfish ambassador Thomas Hofwander, it is mainly about lifting himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration:
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Kan du vissla Johanna? (1994)
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Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't have a grandfather, but he wants one that's nice to him and who can teach him to whistle. Ulf knows where to find a grandfather - at a home for senior citizens. They go searching together and Berra finds a great pretend grandfather, Nils.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Dejta (2020)
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When single mom Ella creates a profile on a dating site opens the door to a new world of romance, adventure, occasional disappointment, but also a lot of wonderful passion. But what is it really Ella wants? Dejta is a warm Swedish drama comedy about daring to live life to the fullest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
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Thorn Castle (1967)
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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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White Fang (1993)
Plot Summary:
White Fang was a 1993 television series loosely based on a novel by Jack London. During its single season 26 episodes were produced. It tells the story of young Matt Scott who adopts a wolf/dog named Fang who continually saves him from bad situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, France, New Zealand
Duration: 26 min
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The New Lassie (1989)
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The New Lassie is an American children and family oriented drama series which aired in first-run syndication from September 8, 1989 to February 15, 1992. The series stars Will Estes as Will McCullough, Lassie's new master. Real life husband and wife Christopher and Dee Wallace-Stone co-starred as Will's parents. The New Lassie is essentially a sequel to the 1954 series, and was the latest in the line of works featuring the Lassie character, which debuted in the 1943 film Lassie Come Home, followed by several more movies and the aforementioned television series, which ran from 1954 to 1973.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Noah's Castle (1979)
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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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A Class Apart (2021)
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When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 42 min
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Danger Bay (1983)
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Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985. One hundred and twenty three installments were filmed, ending in 1989, but the series, perceived as wholesome and exciting fare for older children and adolescents, continued to be seen through the 1990s in numerous countries around the world. The plots of the episodes followed the exploits of the Roberts family, led by marine veterinarian Grant "Doc" Roberts, and his two children, Nicole and Jonah. The 30-minute episodes featured the Vancouver Aquarium in nearly every installment. Most episodes focused on environmental issues such as pollution, wildlife endangerment and forest preservation. The series was also broadcast in Gibraltar Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iceland, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Finland.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, semi serious
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Bodger and Badger (1989)
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Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Flying Liftboy (2000)
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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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Patrik Pacard (1984)
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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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Mystic (2020)
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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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Swords: Life on the Line (2009)
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For the fisherman of New England, braving the frigid, unpredictable waters of the North Atlantic is a tradition that has been in their families for generations. It is an unforgiving environment, where forty-five-foot vessels contend with fifty-foot waves and gale-force winds. Where one fish can earn you $50,000, and one mistake can cost you your life. Swords takes us out to sea in pursuit of massive blue-fin tuna and the elusive swordfish. Together with the fathers, sons, old salts and greenhorns for whom the ocean is more than just where they make a living: it's a way of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, captivating
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Remi, Nobody's Boy (2016)
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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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T. Sventon, Private Investigator (1989)
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Aired in December on the Swedish channel SVT as their Christmas Calender series of 1989. The Story follows private eye Ture Sventon as he solves crimes in Lingonboda, the Arabian desert, London, and Stockholm. His secretary Ms. Jansson and good friend Mr. Omar aids him in the constant battle against his arch enemy Vilhelm Vessla. Based on the books by Åke Holmberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 30 min
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Jonson & Spout (2006)
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Jonson & Spout is a Swedish comedy series for children and childlike adults that began production in 2005. Written and directed by Per Simonsson. 2006-2012 has five seasons shown on TV4, a total of 75 sections.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration:
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Janka (1989)
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Janna is a German-Polish collaboration television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 29 min
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Jim and the Pirates (1987)
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Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town.His father has passed away recently but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams Jim has all kinds of adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Sir Francis Drake (1961)
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Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Jane (2023)
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Budding environmentalist Jane is a 9-year-old on a quest to save endangered animals. Using her powerful imagination, Jane takes her best friends David and Greybeard the chimpanzee on epic adventures to help protect wild animals all around the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Canada
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Born Free (1974)
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The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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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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Tinkas Christmas Adventures (2017)
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Centers on Tinka, an elf girl who becomes an outcast when the people of the elf kingdom she lives in discover that she is half human. To regain their trust, she decides to search for and bring back the lost Christmas star, which was stolen by the humans a hundred years earlier and caused the elves to lose their magic. In the human world, she meets and befriends Lasse, a human boy who, much like herself, struggles to fit in, and who agrees to help her. Together, they embark on a quest to find the missing star.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Luka and the Magical Theater (2021)
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In the early 20th century, Luka, a poor, crippled young boy from the wrong side of the tracks, stumbles upon a theatre at the end of a carnival, where he befriends a bunch of kids who work and live at the theatre, and he feels more at home there than he has anywhere else. However, at the same time, an evil, ruthless upper-class woman on the brink of bankruptcy plots to sell the theatre to gain some extra money, and if that happens, everyone at the theatre will be thrown out into the streets. Luka works together with his new friends to try to save it.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: captivating, thrilling
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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
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The Lost Treasure of Aquila (2014)
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The siblings Sam and Minna and their mother Eva arrive to the Orchid coast to celebrate Christmas in the sun with aunt Anja and their cousin Bianca. It's the first time after their father's death the siblings are back on his beloved Orchid coast, and it is in the same time both beautiful and sad to be there. It promises to be an exciting Christmas when a mysterious mask and old pieces of wood from a sunken ship washes ashore at the hotel where they live. Grandfather Ivo tells the three cousins the legend of pirate Aquila, whose ship sank in the battle for "the greatest treasure of them all". Meanwhile Sam, Minna and their mother Eva learns that the Orchid coast will be destroyed after Christmas. Can pirate Aquila's treasure save the coast?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Adventures of the Black Stallion (1990)
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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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The Saddle Club (2001)
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The Saddle Club is a children's television series based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant and is an Australia/Canada co-production. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional Pine Hollow Stables, while dealing with problems in their personal lives. This series debuted in 2001 and ended in 2003. However, due to popular demand, the series was renewed for a third season with new actors since the original ones were considered too old. The series revolves around the experiences of three girls, who form a club named "The Saddle Club" after recognizing their shared love for horse riding. Their natural rival is another young rider at the barn named Veronica DiAngelo. Throughout the series, The Saddle Club navigates their rivalry with Veronica, training for competitions, horse shows, and the quotidian dramas that arise between friends and staff in the fictional Pine Hollow Stables. In each show, The Saddle Club prevails over its adversities, usually sending a message emphasizing the importance of friendship and teamwork. The show is rated TV-G.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, educational
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Flipper (1964)
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Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons, Sandy and Bud. The show has been dubbed an "aquatic Lassie", and a considerable amount of juvenile merchandise inspired by the show was produced during its first-run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, captivating, light, semi serious, sitcom, serious