Movies Like The Incredible Book Escape
If you liked The Incredible Book Escape (1980), a animation and adventure movie directed by Seth Pinsker and Sam Weiss, 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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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
★ 6.3/10Also adventureWhen a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
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Inkheart (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also adventureThe adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (2017)
★ 6/10Also adventureCan twelve 12-year-olds escape from the most ridiculously brilliant library ever created? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library plunks a dozen sixth-graders into the middle of a futuristic library for a night of nonstop…
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The Pagemaster (1994)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and adventureRich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the…
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and animationThe sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also adventureInside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about…
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)
★ 8/10Also animation and adventureIt's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings…
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Momo (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also adventureMomo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…
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Cranston Academy: Monster Zone (2020)
★ 6/10Also animation and adventureAn intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
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Epic (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and adventureA teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their…
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Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also adventureAnastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
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Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and adventureAfter a deadly storm, Tom and Jerry find themselves stranded on an unknown island ruled by the evil Wizard of Oz. As they try to find their way back home, they worry for their master Dorothy's safety.
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A Tooth Fairy Tale (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also animationVan, the brave son of a tooth fairy leader, meets the goblins girl Gemma on his first mission. Despite the myths about ancient disputes between fairies and goblins, they share common values. When the greedy Spider…
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My Father's Dragon (2022)
★ 7/10Also animation and adventureStruggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious…
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also animationDorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, from a devious new villain, the Jester. New comrades Wiser the Owl…
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The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
★ 6.5/10Also adventureA nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and adventureTaran 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…
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The Darkest Minds (2018)
★ 7/10Also adventureAfter a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the…
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Coraline (2009)
★ 7.9/10Also animationWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real…
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Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and adventureAfter tumbling into a magic storybook, Puss in Boots must fight, dance and romance his way through wild adventures as he searches for an escape.