The Little Ark

Mar 1, 1972

1h 40m

★ 6.0

Amidst a rushing flood of adventure they learned more about love and courage than most people do in a lifetime.

Overview

This heart-rending family-oriented drama chronicles the adventure of two Dutch children who temporarily lose their father and mother during the great flood of 1953. Fortunately, they and their animals are taken in by a salty old boatman who helps them reunite with their father.

Genres

Family

Adventure

Production Companies

Cinema Center Films

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Cast

The Captain

Theodore Bikel

Adinda

Geneviève Ambas

Jan

Philip Frame

Father Grijpma

Max Croiset

Mother Grijpma

Truus Dekker

Mr. Tandema

Lo van Hensbergen

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7.6

Emil and the Detectives

Oct 14, 1954

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

5.7

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5.6

Catch That Kid

Feb 6, 2004

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6.8

The Chipmunk Adventure

May 22, 1987

The Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $100,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is actually a diamond smuggling ring!

6.8

Simon Birch

Sep 11, 1998

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5.0

Henry & Me

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A guardian angel takes a gravely ill boy on a magical journey to meet legendary players from the New York Yankees, both past and present.

6.9

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

Dec 28, 1963

Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality. Based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.

5.4

Dinosaur Island

Dec 1, 2014

The adventure begins when Lucas, a 13 year old boy, embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s. Together they set out on a quest to get home all the while uncovering secrets that will forever change the future.

5.3

Magic in the Water

Aug 30, 1995

Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste.

5.0

Pik & Amadeus – Freunde wider Willen

Sep 26, 2006

13-year-old Pauline, called Pik, has lived with her grandmother Wischonka since her mother died. Pik has never met her father. Her grandmother runs a boarding kennel that is on the verge of insolvency because many customers have handed in their animals at the wrong address. Pik wants to help her grandmother and tries to raise money at Cologne airport by performing a song. But she is taken away by the airport police. Although she manages to escape from the police at first, she accidentally observes how the corrupt policeman Kowatsch and a customs officer take away seized drugs. Kowatsch realizes that he has been observed, but is unable to catch Pik.

6.1

The Pacifier

Mar 4, 2005

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6.6

The Four Feathers

Sep 8, 2002

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.

6.7

Monster House

Jun 30, 2006

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6.9

Santa Claus

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Pitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!

6.8

I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers

Jul 18, 1968

The parents of a two boys remarried after divorce. The older one stayed with his father and his attractive young wife, while the younger one stayed with the mother and her new husband. On Sundays, the two boys visit the other family alternately, and the younger Djuro will soon realize that they have much more in common.

6.1

Daylight

Dec 6, 1996

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

6.7

Nanny McPhee

Oct 21, 2005

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

7.4

August Rush

Nov 21, 2007

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6.5

MouseHunt

Dec 19, 1997

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