Movies Like Cardboard

If you liked Cardboard (2025), a adventure and science fiction movie directed by Jean-Philippe Vine, 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
Three Little Pigs (1933)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedy
The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails)…
2
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and family
When thrill-seeker Cricket tricks his family into taking a "road trip" in space, chaos in the cosmos quickly ensues. Despite growing frustrations between Cricket and his dad, Bill, the two must learn to appreciate each…
3
LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and family
Looking for a much-needed break, Finn arranges a surprise vacation for his friends Rey, Poe, Rose, Chewie, BB-8, R2-D2, and C-3PO, aboard the luxurious Halcyon. However, Finn's plan to have one last hurrah together…
4
Wonder Park (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and animation
A young girl named June with a big imagination makes an incredible discovery -- the amusement park of her dreams has come to life. Filled with the world's wildest rides operated by fun-loving animals, the excitement…
5
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also family and animation
Phineas and Ferb travel across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and taken to a utopia in a far-off planet, free of her pesky little brothers.
6
Toy Story 5 (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and family
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
7
Plankton: The Movie (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also family and comedy
Plankton's tangled love story with his sentient computer wife goes sideways when she takes a stand — and decides to destroy the world without him.
8
WALL·E (2008)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and family
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has…
9
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
★ 7/10Also animation and adventure
Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fight a common threat. Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice…
10
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also family and comedy
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
11
The Tidal Zone: SpongeBob Universe Special (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedy
GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.
12
Migration (2023)
★ 7.3/10Also family and comedy
After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Mallard family embarks on a family road trip, from New England, to New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
13
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and adventure
An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is…
14
LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
The Mandalorian and Grogu join their misfit allies for an epic party, celebrating their heroism. As friends regale the crowd with tales of their adventures, a pirate threat looms.
15
The Lion King 1½ (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and animation
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began…
16
Planet 51 (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also animation and family
When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an…
17
Elio (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and adventure
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover…
18
Strange World (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and family
A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.
19
Up (2009)
★ 8/10Also animation and comedy
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old…
20
The Little Prince (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and animation
Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when…