Movies Like The Wishing Forest
If you liked The Wishing Forest (2018), a fantasy movie directed by Jadzia Perez and Leia Perez, 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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Unicorn Store (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasyA woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasyIn a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
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Dark Shadows (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasyVampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
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Monster Summer (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasyWhen a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.
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Stardust (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also 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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Labyrinth (1986)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasyFrustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him…
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyA teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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The Secret Kingdom (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasyVerity and Peter’s trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground chamber where they are met by a civilization of creatures. The leader…
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasyWhen young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds…
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Wildwood (2026)
★ 8.5/10Also fantasyPrue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a…
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
★ 6/10Also fantasyAfter the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the…
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Love and Monsters (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasySeven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite…
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Damsel (2024)
★ 7/10Also fantasyA young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
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Purgatory (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasyAn outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…
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The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasyA child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
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A Monster Calls (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasy12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasyCaptain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down…
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Lord of Illusions (1995)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasyDuring a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years…
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Willow (1988)
★ 7/10Also fantasyThe 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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Wish Upon a Unicorn (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasyTwo children discover that their mother is gone. The youngest of the pair, adventurer and upcomming singer, Long Johnson forces his older sister, Lily Johnson, to hunt down a unicorn with magical blood.