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Movies Like Light Years Away

If you liked Light Years Away (2006), a fantasy movie directed by Bryan Michael Stoller, 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. 1Unicorn Store

    Unicorn Store (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy

    A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.

  2. 2MirrorMask

    MirrorMask (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy

    In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.

  3. 3Afterlife of the Party

    Afterlife of the Party (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy

    A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

  4. 4Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

    Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also 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…

  5. 5Slumberland

    Slumberland (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also fantasy

    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.

  6. 6Wicked

    Wicked (2021)

    ★ 7.8/10Also fantasy

    Ivy Morgan, a college student in New Orleans, falls for Ren Owens, the last person she expected to enter her rigidly controlled life.

  7. 7Princess

    Princess (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    A reclusive princess and a directionless young man embark on a quest to save the world's mythical creatures from becoming extinct.

  8. 8Hideaways

    Hideaways (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother…

  9. 9Strawberry Mansion

    Strawberry Mansion (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy

    In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…

  10. 10The Odd Life of Timothy Green

    The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also fantasy

    A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

  11. 11Every Day

    Every Day (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also fantasy

    16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the…

  12. 12Jack the Giant Slayer

    Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy

    The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive…

  13. 13The Dark Tower

    The Dark Tower (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy

    A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

  14. 14Tuesday

    Tuesday (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also fantasy

    A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

  15. 15Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10Also fantasy

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…

  16. 1640 Acres

    40 Acres (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also fantasy

    Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they…

  17. 17The Age of Adaline

    The Age of Adaline (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10Also fantasy

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

  18. 18Northfork

    Northfork (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy

    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…

  19. 19Four Kids and It

    Four Kids and It (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.

  20. 20Bedtime Stories

    Bedtime Stories (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn…

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