Movies Like Prince of Central Park

If you liked Prince of Central Park (2000), a family movie directed by John Leekley, 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
Anne of Green Gables (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also family
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…
2
The Cure (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also family
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
3
Annie (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a…
4
August Rush (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also family
Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…
5
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011)
★ 6.4/10Also family
In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she…
6
The Secret Garden (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also family
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a…
7
13: The Musical (2022)
★ 6/10Also family
After moving from New York City to Indiana, a 12 year old navigates his parents' divorce, his impending bar mitzvah and his new school's social circles.
8
The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also family
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
9
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also family
Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
10
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also family
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
11
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also family
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
12
Sleepover (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also family
Desperate to improve their social status, four best friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.
13
The Little Princess (1939)
★ 6.7/10Also family
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
14
The Wiz (1978)
★ 6.2/10Also family
Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.
15
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also family
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…
16
Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also family
After 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.
17
Annie (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also family
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure…
18
Oliver! (1968)
★ 7/10Also family
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master…
19
Curly Sue (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also family
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes…
20
Curly Top (1935)
★ 6.5/10Also family
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself…