Movies like 4ever Kids (2005)
The best movies like 4ever Kids (2005) are The Thirteenth Year (1999), I Love My Dad (2022) and Towed in a Hole (1932). If 4ever Kids hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
4ever Kids
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- Highest ratedFar from the Tree (2021)8.1/10 from 395 votes
- NewestOne Last Shot (2026)Released 2026
- In ChineseHuan Express (2020)Also in Chinese
The Thirteenth Year (1999)
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Love My Dad (2022)
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisTowed in a Hole (1932)
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVesper (2022)
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFar from the Tree (2021)
On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLight of My Life (2019)
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrincess Protection Program (2009)
When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Day's Pleasure (1919)
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinding Nemo (2003)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTortilla Soup (2001)
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChildren of the Damned (1964)
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarely Legal (2003)
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more popular at school. Hijinks ensue as they cast and create their movie, but porn industry player Vic Ramalot grows jealous of their burgeoning success and tries to put a stop to the project.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Joy Luck Club (1993)
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trouble with Angels (1966)
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptains Courageous (1937)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye June (2025)
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrother Mary (2021)
To understand a mysterious man in a Victorian gown who sings praises to God on the streets of contemporary Vancouver, we meet the people who claim to be closest to him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
One Last Shot (2026)
June and her friends give everything they've got to complete a movie for her college application project.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Neither mime, nor reason (TBA)
The local mime is up to mischief at NESCol
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Monkey or Man (2022)
When a circus trio have a particularly disastrous show, Mandy the Acrobat must decide whether to run away from the circus, or to stay and help her friends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Atlantis, 2003 (2018)
2003. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get to Germany.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Miss Fortune (2022)
A young queer girl is entered into an eerie beauty pageant, of unknown stakes, that ultimately turns against her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Huan Express (2020)
An average boy studying in junior college must decide if he wants to exchange his most precious memory for an 'A' grade for his mother's approval and love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Dynamite Watcher (1963)
Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Higher Knowledge (2024)
Three graduate students work tirelessly to solve their professor's final equation, before they meet his grisly fate.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 4ever Kids?
The closest matches to 4ever Kids are The Thirteenth Year (1999), I Love My Dad (2022) and Towed in a Hole (1932). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 4ever Kids?
Start with The Thirteenth Year (1999), the closest match to 4ever Kids.
What is the highest-rated movie like 4ever Kids?
Far from the Tree (2021), rated 8.1/10 by 395 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 4ever Kids?
One Last Shot (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Chinese movies like 4ever Kids?
Yes: Huan Express (2020).
How are movies similar to 4ever Kids chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 4ever Kids, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.