20 movies like The Tale of Despereaux, ordered by similarity : How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World(2019), Tangled(2010), The Swan Princess III(1998), Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods(2011), Disney's Descendants 2(2017), Toy Story 4(2019), Excalibur(1981), Peter Pan: The Quest for the Never Book(2018), Two by Two(2015), Shrek Forever After(2010), Gulliver's Travels(1939), Aladdin(1992) ...
Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation
UK|USA
2008
94 Minutes
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An unusually brave mouse helps to restore happiness to a forlorn kingdom after making friends with a gentleman rat.
Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure
USA|Japan
2019
104 Minutes
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When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy
USA
2010
101 Minutes
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The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
USA
1998
71 Minutes
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In 1965, an American fighter squadron encountered a spaceship while flying over the Bermuda Triangle. After getting into a brief dogfight with it, one of the fighters is shot down, and the ... See full summary »
Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy
Germany
2011
96 Minutes
Jonas Hämmerle Waldemar Kobus Valeria Eisenbart Nic Romm Christian Koch Olaf Krätke Eva Padberg Christian Ulmen
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Viking village Flake's chief Halvar orders clever, tiny son Wickie to rob a knights convoy. The warriors have to take over but fail to see Wicki being abducted with a cargo of Eskimo slaves... See full summary »
Adventure, Comedy, Action, Kids & Family, Fantasy
2017
111 Minutes
Dove Cameron Cameron Boyce Sofia Carson Booboo Stewart China Anne McClain Thomas Doherty Dylan Playfair Anna Cathcart Brenna D'Amico Melanie Paxson Dianna Doan
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When the pressure to be royally perfect gets to be too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost. She discovers that Uma, the daughter of Ursula, has taken over as queen, and that her gang is finalizing plans to bring down the barrier.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
2019
100 Minutes
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When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
Adventure, Fantasy
UK|USA
1981
119 Minutes
Nicol Williamson Nigel Terry Helen Mirren Nicholas Clay Cherie Lunghi Corin Redgrave Paul Geoffrey Patrick Stewart Gabriel Byrne Liam Neeson
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Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure
Ireland
2018
90 Minutes
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The longest day of the year in Neverland has finally arrived. Festivities are being organized by the Red Skins and celebrations are underway. To get the best of the day filled with fun and ... See full summary »
Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Animation
2015
87 Minutes
Sean McCormack
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Finny, a Nestrian, and his new friend Leah have to band together to survive the elements and predators after they fall off Noah's Ark.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA|Japan
2010
95 Minutes
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Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
1939
74 Minutes
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A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Musical, Fantasy
USA
1992
90 Minutes
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A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
UK
2002
73 Minutes
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A young man named Rufus arrives at a mysterious village to open his own barbering business, when he encounters everything covered in what looks like hair! He then meets an innocent young ... See full summary »
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
2014
102 Minutes
Tom Owens
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When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
Fantasy
UK
1984
101 Minutes
Miles O'Keeffe Cyrielle Claire Sean Connery Leigh Lawson Trevor Howard Peter Cushing Ronald Lacey Lila Kedrova John Rhys-Davies Wilfrid Brambell Brian Coburn
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The Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. But only young Gawain accepts and decapitates him. The knight takes his head and now gives Gawain one year to learn about virtues, knighthood and then face the challenge himself.
Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Fantasy
USA|Canada|Australia
2002
72 Minutes
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In London during World War II, this is the story of Wendy's daughter, Jane, who is kidnapped by Captain Hook and Peter Pan must come to the rescue.
Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Fantasy
2014
79 Minutes
tinkerbell fairy pirate playful lighthearted mythical land fairy tale land fairyland pirate ship mythical creatures fairy tales pirates magic magic spell adventure adventure discovery pursuit quest unknown era
Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) and her friends go in search of a wayward fairy (Christina Hendricks) who fled Pixie Hollow and joined up with a band of scheming pirates led by the future Captain Hook (Tom Hiddleston).
Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy, Animation
Spain|Canada
2016
90 Minutes
Nacho La Casa
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When his family goes on vacation, a young dog finds himself at a dog prison where he must escape with the help of his new friends.
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
UK|USA
1996
80 Minutes
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An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
Kids & Family, Adventure, Fantasy
USA|UK
2010
112 Minutes
Georgie Henley Skandar Keynes Ben Barnes Will Poulter Gary Sweet Tilda Swinton Terry Norris Bruce Spence Bille Brown Laura Brent Anna Popplewell
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Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.