Movies Like The Adventures of Oliver Twist
If you liked The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1987), a animation and drama movie directed by Fernando Ruiz, 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.
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Oliver Twist (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of…
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Oliver Twist (1948)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaWhen 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin…
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Oliver! (1968)
★ 7/10Also dramaMusical 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…
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Hamilton (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaPresenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.
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Anne of Green Gables (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAnne 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…
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The Little Princess (1939)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Animal Farm (1954)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and dramaAnimals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
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The Jungle Book (1967)
★ 7.3/10Also animationThe boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare…
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Oliver Twist (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of…
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaYoung 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…
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The Secret Garden (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaMary 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…
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Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
★ 6/10Also dramaUnder the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy…
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The Secret Garden (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years…
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Finding Neverland (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaDuring a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter…
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The Book Thief (2013)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaWhile subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
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The Elephant Man (1980)
★ 8/10Also dramaA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and dramaMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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The King of Kings (2025)
★ 8.3/10Also animationCharles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His…
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Ballet Shoes (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAn unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one…
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Wonder (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaThe story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.