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Movies that feel likeBridge to Terabithia (2007)

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.

If you loved Bridge to Terabithia, the closest films we have are Hugo (2011), The Call of the Wild (2020) and Wonder (2017). All three share Bridge to Terabithia's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The White Balloon (1995).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gábor Csupóepiccontemplativewarmcozy
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Hugo
2011 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5adventure · drama · family

Both land scale and stillness at once

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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The Call of the Wild
2020 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 62%★ 6.7adventure · family · dramaDisney+

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

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Wonder
2017 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 86%★ 7.9family · dramaRent or buy

Both are working the same pair: bullying, school

The difference: Easier on the scale than Bridge to Terabithia

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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A Dog's Purpose
2017 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 35%★ 7.3adventure · fantasy · family

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

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The Black Stallion
1979 · dir. Carroll Ballard
🍅 90%★ 7.4family · adventure

Family built on warmth, twice over

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 1970s show

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

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Children of Heaven
1997 · dir. Majid Majidi
🍅 83%★ 8.2drama · family

Common ground: brothers and sisters

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

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The White Balloon
1995 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 83%★ 7.6drama · family

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Storm Boy
1977 · dir. Henri Safran
★ 6.9drama · family

Drama with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Bridge to Terabithia does

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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The Journey of Natty Gann
1985 · dir. Jeremy Kagan
🍅 91%★ 7adventure · family · dramaDisney+

Both lean on stillness more than on family

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

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Peter Pan
2003 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 77%★ 6.8adventure · fantasy · family

Adventure built on warmth, twice over

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.

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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
1990 · dir. George T. Miller
🍅 14%★ 5.1family · fantasy · adventure

Both lean on comfort more than on drama

Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.

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