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Movies Like King Solomon

If you liked King Solomon (1996), a movie directed by Balu Kiriyath, 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.

  1. 1Problem Child

    Problem Child (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.

  2. 2Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…

  3. 3Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist (1948)

    ★ 7.6/10

    When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin…

  4. 4Candleshoe

    Candleshoe (1977)

    ★ 6.9/10

    When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the…

  5. 5Dog Gone

    Dog Gone (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.

  6. 6Mrs. Doubtfire

    Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job…

  7. 7Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…

  8. 8Welcome to Collinwood

    Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

  9. 9Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist (2005)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of…

  10. 10Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  11. 11Oliver!

    Oliver! (1968)

    ★ 7/10

    Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master…

  12. 12Annie

    Annie (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a…

  13. 13The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

  14. 14Ballet Shoes

    Ballet Shoes (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one…

  15. 15Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  16. 16Scrapper

    Scrapper (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live…

  17. 17It Takes Two

    It Takes Two (1995)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker…

  18. 18Kajillionaire

    Kajillionaire (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their…

  19. 19Despicable Me

    Despicable Me (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his…

  20. 20Pete's Dragon

    Pete's Dragon (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10

    For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger…

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