Movies Like Dragonfly and Ant
If you liked Dragonfly and Ant (1961), a animation and fantasy movie directed by Nikolay Fyodorov, 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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Welcome to Smelliville (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and fantasyThe 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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A Tooth Fairy Tale (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and fantasyVan, 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…
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The Humpbacked Horse (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and fantasyRemake of the 1947 Soviet film directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.
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Dolphin Boy (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and fantasyWhen a plane crashes at sea, dolphins rescue a little boy and raise him as family. He lives a carefree life beneath the waves until an evil monster seizes power over the underwater world. Banished to dry land, the boy…
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Waking Life (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and fantasyWaking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like…
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Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and fantasyWhen Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.
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The Monkey King (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and fantasyA stick-wielding monkey teams with a young girl on an epic quest for immortality, battling demons, dragons, gods — and his own ego — along the way.
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You Drive Me Crazy (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also fantasyAlisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel…
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Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action! (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and fantasyWhen Draculaura is led to believe she's the rightful heir to the vampire throne, she and her best ghoulfriends are whisked away to Transylvania for a royal coronation to die for. But they soon discover the hunt for the…
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The Last Warrior (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasyIvan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. In this parallel universe where characters of Russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of daily life, and…
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The Ant Bully (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and animationFed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir…
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Monster High: Scaris City of Frights (2013)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and fantasyThe Monstruitas of Monster High are obsessed with going to Scaris, The City of Frights for Fashion international competition where the winner will become the apprentice of the world famous Madame Ghostier designer.
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Lou (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also fantasy and animationA lost-and-found box holds a mysterious and unseen monster within.
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Arctic Dogs (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also animationAnimals band together to save the day when the evil Otto Von Walrus hatches a sinister scheme to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle.
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and fantasyAfter a hurricane levels his city, a young man wanders into a mysterious library where books literally come to life. This film won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2012.
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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and fantasyA motion comic follow-up to a chapter from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter novel where Abe's friend, Edgar Allan Poe, tells him the tale of historical Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, often tied to vampire legends…
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Wildwood (2026)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and 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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Strings (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and fantasyThe story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his own designs on the throne.
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How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)
★ 8/10Also animation and fantasyIt's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings…
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and fantasyEscaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.