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Movies that feel like A Little Princess (1995)

If you loved A Little Princess, the closest films we have are The Secret Garden (1993), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and A Christmas Carol (2009). All three share A Little Princess's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

When 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 attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfonso Cuaróncontemplativewarmcozydreamlike

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The Secret Garden
1993 · dir. Agnieszka Holland
🍅 89%7.3drama · family · fantasy

Servant and little girl, at the center of both

A 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 before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

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It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 94%8.6drama · family · fantasy

Both land stillness and warmth at once

The difference: 49 years apart, and the 1940s show

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

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A Christmas Carol
2009 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 52%6.8animation · drama · family

Cozy where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Miser 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 does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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Avalon High
2011 · dir. Stuart Gillard
5.6fantasy · family · drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

The difference: Leans tv movie where A Little Princess does not

Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.

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Wonder
2017 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 86%7.9family · drama

Both built around school

The difference: None of the dream logic that defines A Little Princess

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

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Babe
1995 · dir. Chris Noonan
🍅 98%6.9fantasy · drama · comedy

Warm family, and it commits to that

The difference: Plays it as comedy more than A Little Princess does

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Cinderella
2015 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 84%6.9romance · fantasy · family

The same preoccupation in both: orphan

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.

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The Red Turtle
2016 · dir. Michael Dudok de Wit
🍅 93%7.5animation · drama · fantasy

Fantasy built on comfort, twice over

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

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The Cat Returns
2002 · dir. Hiroyuki Morita
🍅 88%7.1adventure · fantasy · animation

Drama with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

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Whisper of the Heart
1995 · dir. Yoshifumi Kondo
🍅 95%7.8animation · drama · family

Contemplative family in both cases

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."

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Twitches
2005 · dir. Stuart Gillard
🍅 60%5.8comedy · drama · family

Parents and children sits at the heart of each

Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to face the darkness alone, will Coventry be doomed? Or will the sisters multiply their magic by standing together?

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Soul
2020 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 95%8animation · family · drama

Warm fantasy in both cases

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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