Movies Like Running Free
If you liked Running Free (1999), a family movie directed by Sergei Bodrov, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Black Beauty (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also familyThe fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
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Sneakerella (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also familyWhen El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…
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Flicka (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also familyKaty McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…
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PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also familyA royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.
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Snoopy Presents: There's No Place Like Home, Snoopy (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also familyWhen Snoopy's beloved doghouse goes missing, he tries to track it down, and learns what makes a house feel like home.
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Snoopy Presents: It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also familyCharlie Brown is determined to win the big baseball game. But things turn into a fiasco right before the matchup, when Sally bonds with a little flower on the pitcher's mound and vows to protect it at all costs.
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Lassie (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also familyOn their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the…
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Ploey: You Never Fly Alone (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also familyA plover chick has not learned to fly when his family migrates in the fall. He must survive the arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself in order to be reunited with his beloved one next spring.
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
★ 8.2/10Also familyThe unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
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Rescued by Ruby (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also familyChasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby. Based on a true story.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also familyPuppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the…
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Godspell (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also familyIn modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance, they relive Christ's crucifixion.
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Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
★ 6.5/10Also familyA girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings…
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Flicka: Country Pride (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also familyFlicka and Toby help out a struggling stable owner and her teenage daughter.
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
★ 6.5/10Also familyTom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also familyA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also familyFaced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa's great friend Mariah Carey. The Queen of Christmas creates a fabulous and star-studded spectacular to make…
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The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also familyYoung and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
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Let It Shine (2012)
★ 7/10Also familyA teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help a friend and win the girl of his dreams while overcoming self-doubt and the expectations of his strict religious parents.
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American Underdog (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also familyThe true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.