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Movies that feel likeAtlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

If you loved Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the closest films we have are Monsters vs Aliens (2009), Flight of the Navigator (1986) and The Iron Giant (1999). All three share Atlantis: The Lost Empire's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Escape to Witch Mountain (1975).

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gary Trousdalewarmcozyepiccerebral
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)

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Monsters vs Aliens
2009 · dir. Rob Letterman
🍅 73%★ 6.4animation · family · adventureParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: villain

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...

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Flight of the Navigator
1986 · dir. Randal Kleiser
🍅 85%★ 6.9family · science fiction · adventureDisney+

Warm where it counts, cozy underneath

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

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The Iron Giant
1999 · dir. Brad Bird
🍅 96%★ 8.1animation · drama · family

The same preoccupation in both: villain

The difference: Leans further into drama

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

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Dinosaur
2000 · dir. Eric Leighton
🍅 65%★ 6.4adventure · animation · dramaDisney+

Animation with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Goes its own way on the ideas

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

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Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 77%★ 6.3science fiction · adventure · familyNetflix

Cerebral family, and it commits to that

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 · dir. Gary Trousdale
🍅 80%★ 7drama · animation · familyDisney+

Both are Gary Trousdale's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Played as drama first

Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern guardian, the Judge of Paris Claude Frollo. His first venture into the city leads him to Esmeralda, a fearless Romani woman whose defiance of Frollo's tyranny draws her—and Quasimodo—into his dangerous obsession.

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Mira
2022 · dir. Dmitry Kiselyov
★ 5.8science fiction · drama · adventurePrime Video

Both lean on warmth more than on adventure

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.

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Hugo
2011 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5adventure · drama · family

Common ground in both: museum and steampunk

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

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Treasure Planet
2002 · dir. Ron Clements
🍅 68%★ 7.2science fiction · adventure · animationDisney+

Science fiction built on comfort, twice over

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

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Escape to Witch Mountain
1975 · dir. John Hough
🍅 87%★ 6.3adventure · fantasy · science fictionDisney+

Epic family in both cases

Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

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Bridge to Terabithia
2007 · dir. Gábor Csupó
🍅 85%★ 7.2adventure · drama · familyDisney+

Adventure built on warmth, twice over

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.

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Lightyear
2022 · dir. Angus MacLane
🍅 74%★ 6.1animation · science fiction · familyDisney+

Cerebral animation, and it commits to that

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

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