Movies Like The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
If you liked The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989), a drama and family movie directed by Stuart Orme, 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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A Little Princess (1995)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and familyWhen her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who…
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The Secret Garden (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also family and fantasyMary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a…
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The Secret Garden (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and familyA young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years…
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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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The Canterville Ghost (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and dramaWhen a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She…
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Oliver Twist (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also family and dramaAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasyFour 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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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also family and fantasyOne 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 Prince and the Pauper (1937)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and familyTwo boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards…
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From Time to Time (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and dramaA haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
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Wolfwalkers (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also family and fantasyIn a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild…
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The BFG (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also family and fantasyAn orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
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The Legend of Ochi (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasyIn 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…
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Inkheart (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also family and fantasyThe 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 Magic Faraway Tree (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasyA 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.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasyUpon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and familyWhen a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on…
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
★ 7.4/10Also family and fantasyA widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to…
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and fantasyMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and familyThe story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.