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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.

  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. 2Something Wicked This Way Comes

    Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

    ★ 6.5/10Also fantasy

    In 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?

  3. 3Dark Shadows

    Dark Shadows (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    Vampire 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.

  4. 4Monster Summer

    Monster Summer (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also fantasy

    When 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.

  5. 5Stardust

    Stardust (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10Also fantasy

    In 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…

  6. 6Labyrinth

    Labyrinth (1986)

    ★ 7.3/10Also fantasy

    Frustrated 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…

  7. 7Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10Also fantasy

    A 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.

  8. 8The Secret Kingdom

    The Secret Kingdom (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy

    Verity 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…

  9. 9Snow White: A Tale of Terror

    Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    When 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…

  10. 10Wildwood

    Wildwood (2026)

    ★ 8.5/10Also fantasy

    Prue 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…

  11. 11Snow White and the Huntsman

    Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy

    After 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…

  12. 12Love and Monsters

    Love and Monsters (2020)

    ★ 7.3/10Also fantasy

    Seven 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…

  13. 13Damsel

    Damsel (2024)

    ★ 7/10Also fantasy

    A 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.

  14. 14Purgatory

    Purgatory (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also fantasy

    An 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…

  15. 15The Curse of the Werewolf

    The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

    ★ 6.5/10Also fantasy

    A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.

  16. 16A Monster Calls

    A Monster Calls (2016)

    ★ 7.3/10Also fantasy

    12-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.

  17. 17Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10Also fantasy

    Captain 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…

  18. 18Lord of Illusions

    Lord of Illusions (1995)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy

    During 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…

  19. 19Willow

    Willow (1988)

    ★ 7/10Also fantasy

    The 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…

  20. 20Wish Upon a Unicorn

    Wish Upon a Unicorn (2020)

    ★ 6.9/10Also fantasy

    Two 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.

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