Movies Like Thomas & Friends: My Little Thomas and Percy Adventures

If you liked Thomas & Friends: My Little Thomas and Percy Adventures (2001), 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
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie (2018)
★ 7.4/10
Thomas leaves Sodor to fulfil his dream of seeing the world. This heroic quest takes Thomas across deserts, through jungles and over dangerous mountains as he travels across five continents seeing sights he has never…
2
Moby Dick (1956)
★ 7.1/10
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the…
3
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…
4
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
★ 6.6/10
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the…
5
Treasure Island (1990)
★ 6.7/10
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and…
6
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
★ 6.5/10
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
7
My Penguin Friend (2024)
★ 7.4/10
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast ocean cannot divide them.
8
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
★ 6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
9
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
★ 6.7/10
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the…
10
True Spirit (2023)
★ 7/10
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben…
11
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
★ 6.8/10
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
12
Treasure Island (1972)
★ 5.9/10
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
13
Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)
★ 6.3/10
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country…
14
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
★ 7.1/10
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
15
Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (2025)
★ 6.6/10
Dora, Diego, and their new friends trek through the perilous dangers of the Amazonian jungle in search of the ancient and powerful treasure of Sol Dorado to keep it out of enemy hands.
16
Woman Times Seven (1967)
★ 6.3/10
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress…
17
The Luck of the Irish (2001)
★ 6.1/10
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
18
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.
19
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
★ 6.9/10
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
20
Hellfighters (1968)
★ 6.3/10
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.