Movies Like Once Upon a Halloween

If you liked Once Upon a Halloween (2005), a animation and family movie directed by Jamie Mitchell, 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
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and family
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts…
2
The Black Cauldron (1985)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and family
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the…
3
Halloweentown High (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also family
Marnie puts her magic on the line to get several Halloweentown teenagers transferred to her high school in the mortal world. But soon, Marnie and her new friends are in trouble and out of luck when the evil Knight Of…
4
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also family
Be careful what you wish for. With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people’s trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that…
5
Monster High: Ghouls Rule (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and family
Monster High: Ghouls Rule unearths an old conflict between "Normies" and monsters - and things are about to get scary! For years, students at Monster High were warned that Halloween was a night to stay inside and avoid…
6
Monster High: Scaris City of Frights (2013)
★ 7.8/10Also animation
The Monstruitas of Monster High are obsessed with going to Scaris, The City of Frights for Fashion international competition where the winner will become the apprentice of the world famous Madame Ghostier designer.
7
Mickey's Tale of Two Witches (2021)
★ 7/10Also animation and family
On Halloween, Mickey tells a tale of two witches-in-training, Minnie and Daisy, who must pass four tests to graduate from the With Academy in Happy Haunt Hills.
8
Girl vs. Monster (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom…
9
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also family
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
10
Monster High: Haunted (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and family
Lurk what's waiting for the Monster High ghouls when they bring their killer fashion to the howlways of the spooktacular Haunted High! When the ghouls of Monster High follow Spectra Vondergeist one day, they discover a…
11
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
12
Monster High: Fright On! (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also family and animation
See what happens when the student bodies of an all-vampire school and an all-werewolf school integrate with Monster High.
13
Mickey's House of Villains (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also family and animation
The villains from the popular animated Disney films are gathered at the House of Mouse with plans to take over. Soon, the villains take over the house and kick out Mickey, Donald and Goofy. It's all up to Mickey and…
14
Monster High: Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love? (2012)
★ 8/10Also animation
Draculaura’s Sweet 1600th birthday is an extra special occasion to party at Monster High! But her high expectations lead to deadly results when she’s faced with the choice between practical boyfriend Clawd, and new…
15
Monster High: Friday Night Frights (2012)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and family
After Monster High’s roller skating team is defeated at the Skulltimate Roller Maze tournament, the ghouls team up to face an all-boys league, with the hope of winning back the school crest and restoring school spirit.
16
Descendants (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also family
A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos)…
17
Halloweentown (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also family
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But…
18
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also family
The Cromwell clan lives in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the…
19
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and family
Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the…
20
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and family
Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him.