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Movies Like Thomas & Friends: My First Thomas with the Twin Engines

If you liked Thomas & Friends: My First Thomas with the Twin Engines (2011), a movie directed by David Mitton, 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. 1An Adventure in Space and Time

    An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected…

  2. 2Robot Chicken: Star Wars

    Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A series of 30 sketches, following the hilarious antics of various characters from a galaxy, far, far away.

  3. 3The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

  4. 4Superintelligence

    Superintelligence (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to…

  5. 5A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

    A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

    ★ 7/10

    An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on…

  6. 6Demetrius and the Gladiators

    Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

    ★ 6.6/10

    The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its…

  7. 7Robot & Frank

    Robot & Frank (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and…

  8. 8The Four Musketeers

    The Four Musketeers (1974)

    ★ 6.5/10

    The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

  9. 9The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels (1966)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…

  10. 10Being There

    Being There (1979)

    ★ 7.6/10

    A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from…

  11. 11Drop Dead Fred

    Drop Dead Fred (1991)

    ★ 5.8/10

    An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred.

  12. 12Kermit's Swamp Years

    Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

    ★ 5.8/10

    At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.

  13. 13Julia

    Julia (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10

    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

  14. 14Murder She Said

    Murder She Said (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

  15. 15Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe

    Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10

    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.

  16. 16Topkapi

    Topkapi (1964)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's…

  17. 17Dolittle

    Dolittle (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his…

  18. 18The Private Life of Henry VIII

    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges of treason, Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that wedded bliss also…

  19. 19Made in Dagenham

    Made in Dagenham (2010)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

  20. 20The Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

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