Movies Like Cardboard Island

If you liked Cardboard Island (2026), a adventure and fantasy movie directed by Jacob Boatsman, 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
Love and Monsters (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and comedy
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite…
2
Haunted Mansion (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
3
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama
The 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…
4
The Addams Family (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to…
5
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred.
6
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and adventure
Two 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.
7
Corner Office (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?
8
Burn Your Maps (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and comedy
A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.
9
Bob Trevino Likes It (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
Lily Trevino unexpectedly befriends an online stranger who shares her self-centered father’s name. This new Bob Trevino’s support could transform her life.
10
Half Brothers (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to…
11
Labyrinth (1986)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and fantasy
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him…
12
Death at a Funeral (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
13
Dear Eleanor (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and comedy
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
14
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
15
Wild Hogs (2007)
★ 6/10Also adventure and comedy
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico…
16
The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also adventure and comedy
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
17
Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy
Samantha 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…
18
I Like Movies (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
19
Finch (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and adventure
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
20
Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasy
A 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…