Movies Like Whale the Moon
If you liked Whale the Moon (2025), a fantasy and family movie directed by Lesly Esparza, 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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Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasyAnastasia 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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Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyCole, a teen grieving the loss of his dad, forms an unlikely bond with Bea, a ghost. As they navigate life and death, they must break an ancient curse.
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Snow Queen (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasySince a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A…
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Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasyTwo unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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The Good Witch (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasyA mysterious woman comes in to town and inhabits the local haunted mansion, making everyone wonder if she's a witch or "The Grey Lady".
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Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and familyDetermined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of…
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Prince Charming (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasyAfter an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
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Max Winslow and The House of Secrets (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also familyFive teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
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Hideaways (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasyThe elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother…
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Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also fantasySamantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
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Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasyThe year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also familyA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasyA young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasy and familyDoctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is…
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Date with an Angel (1987)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyAspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his…
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Flora & Ulysses (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also family and fantasyWhen Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life--and her…
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
★ 7/10Also fantasyDue to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also familyAfter NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
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Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasyNot until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories…
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Departure (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also familyAn English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from…