Movies Like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
If you liked The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979), a animation and family movie directed by Bill Melendez, 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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The Black Cauldron (1985)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and adventureTaran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the…
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Stardust (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and fantasyIn a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest…
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The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and familyPrincess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protective orbs of the palace get stolen, Tack and Yum Yum set out to find them and save the kingdom.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and familyOne year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz…
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The Witches (1990)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and familyWhile staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical…
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and familyWart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also adventure and familyFour kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and adventureOscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and fantasyOne day the Aislings find themselves magically transported to a ship called the Unicorn. Here, they discover that they've been chosen to fulfill an incredible quest! They undergo an incredible journey of discovery in…
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Welcome to Smelliville (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and adventureThe Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom…
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The Princess and the Goblin (1991)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure and animationThe story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.
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Alice in Wonderland (1951)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and familyOn a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
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Inkheart (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and familyThe adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
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The Hobbit (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also family and fantasyThe story follows the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a diminutive creative who resides in a place called Middle-Earth before he is compelled to go on a quest to find a treasure buried deep in the heart of the Lonely…
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Willow (1988)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and adventureThe evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with…
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and fantasyYoung Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss…
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Hansel and Gretel (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasyHansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman…
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Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and familyIn late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she…
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Happily Ever After (1989)
★ 5.8/10Also family and animationIn the aftermath of her more famous adventure, Snow White must team up with the dwarves' seven female cousins to battle the late Evil Queen's warlock brother and rescue the captured Prince.
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Four Kids and It (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasyA group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.