Movies Like Scales

If you liked Scales, a adventure and family movie directed by Kacie Anning, 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
Aquamarine (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and family
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists…
2
The Little Mermaid (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and family
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to…
3
The King's Daughter (2022)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and adventure
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
4
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasy
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids…
5
Pan (2015)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and adventure
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They…
6
The Thirteenth Year (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and family
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
7
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also family and adventure
In this animated follow-up to Fairytopia, Elina enlists the help of a mermaid, Nori, to save her friend Nalu, a merman prince who has been captured by the wicked Laverna.
8
Barbie: Dolphin Magic (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and family
Barbie and her sisters take off on another exciting, global adventure to visit their friend Ken at his summer internship at a beautiful and exotic coral reef.
9
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010)
★ 7.3/10Also family and fantasy
Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfer who learns a shocking secret: she's a mermaid! She and her dolphin friend set out for an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana.
10
Come Away (2020)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and adventure
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…
11
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasy
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
12
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and fantasy
The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician's apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen.
13
Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure and fantasy
Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
14
Sketch (2025)
★ 7/10Also adventure and fantasy
When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…
15
Slumberland (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and family
A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
16
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and family
A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.
17
Peter Pan (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and fantasy
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story…
18
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and fantasy
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…
19
Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also family and fantasy
After tumbling into a magic storybook, Puss in Boots must fight, dance and romance his way through wild adventures as he searches for an escape.
20
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and family
When her beloved dollhouse is accidentally claimed by an eccentric cat lady during a road trip to Cat Francisco, Gabby embarks on a real-world adventure to reunite the Gabby Cats and rescue her most prized possession…