Movies like The Secret of Roan Inish

20 movies like The Secret of Roan Inish, ordered by similarity : The Odyssey(2016), Lassie Come Home(1943), My Friend Flicka(1943), Cheaper by the Dozen(1950), Old Yeller(1957), The Yearling(1946), A Dog's Journey(2019), This Is My Father(1998), Storm Boy(1976), Those Calloways(1964), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children(2016), The Last Winter(1990) ...

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The Secret of Roan Inish

When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

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The Odyssey

Thirty years in the life of Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the researcher, scientist, inventor, and filmmaker whose contributions made the general public more curious about the sea.

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Lassie Come Home

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie (Pal) escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

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My Friend Flicka

Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »

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Cheaper by the Dozen

"Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in ... See full summary »

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Old Yeller

A teenage boy (Tommy Kirk) grows to love a stray yellow dog while running his Texas homestead with his father (Fess Parker) away.

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The Yearling

A pet deer changes a boy (Claude Jarman Jr.) and his parents (Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman), pioneering farmers in Florida after the Civil War.

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A Dog's Journey

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

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This Is My Father

Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown ... See full summary »

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Storm Boy

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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Those Calloways

Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries ... See full summary »

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.

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The Last Winter

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s, it revolves around William Jamison and his colorful old Grampa Jack.... See full summary »

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Moonrise Kingdom

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.

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Whale Rider

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

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The Golden Seal

A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaska, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt ... See full summary »

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The Sacrifice

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

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The Fox and the Child

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Swimmers

After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

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The Legend of Johnny Lingo

When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor.

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