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Movies Like Little Red Riding Hood

If you liked Little Red Riding Hood (1953), a family and fantasy movie directed by Fritz Genschow, 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. 1Prancer: A Christmas Tale

    Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also family and fantasy

    Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory…

  2. 2Four Kids and It

    Four Kids and It (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasy

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

  3. 3The Dirt Bike Kid

    The Dirt Bike Kid (1985)

    ★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasy

    When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the local hot dog stand from the…

  4. 4Casper Meets Wendy

    Casper Meets Wendy (1998)

    ★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasy

    When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where Casper the Ghost is vacationing with his uncles. Although Casper and Wendy are told ghosts and witches don't get along…

  5. 5The School of the Magical Animals

    The School of the Magical Animals (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasy

    Ida Kronenberg must transfer to a new school, where she soon realizes the students are unkind to each other. However, that all changes when a new teacher, Miss Cornfield, begins to educate them on the value of…

  6. 6Godmothered

    Godmothered (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasy

    A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman…

  7. 7Shorts

    Shorts (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasy

    A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.

  8. 8The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

    The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and family

    After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is…

  9. 9Casper

    Casper (1995)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and family

    Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly…

  10. 10Dashing Through the Snow

    Dashing Through the Snow (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and family

    Eddie Garrick is a good-hearted man who has lost his belief in the wonder of Christmas. While spending time with his nine-year-old daughter Charlotte on Christmas Eve, he befriends a mysterious man in a red suit named…

  11. 11Momo

    Momo (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasy

    Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…

  12. 12Anastasia: Once Upon a Time

    Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasy

    Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

  13. 13The Legend of Ochi

    The Legend of Ochi (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasy

    In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a…

  14. 14Santa Claus: The Movie

    Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)

    ★ 6.4/10Also family and fantasy

    In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus…

  15. 15The Indian in the Cupboard

    The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

    ★ 6.5/10Also family and fantasy

    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.

  16. 16A Tooth Fairy Tale

    A Tooth Fairy Tale (2025)

    ★ 8.5/10Also fantasy and family

    Van, the brave son of a tooth fairy leader, meets the goblins girl Gemma on his first mission. Despite the myths about ancient disputes between fairies and goblins, they share common values. When the greedy Spider…

  17. 17School of Magical Animals 2

    School of Magical Animals 2 (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also family and fantasy

    The students of the School of Magical Animals want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will rehearsals end in chaos or will the class pull together? And what's up with the strange holes on the school…

  18. 18The Magic Faraway Tree

    The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)

    ★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasy

    A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.

  19. 19Kermit's Swamp Years

    Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and family

    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.

  20. 20Come Away

    Come Away (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy

    Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…

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