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Movies that feel likeFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

If you loved Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the closest films we have are Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Doctor Strange (2016) and Kong: Skull Island (2017). All three share Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them's dreamlike and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Yatesdreamlikeepic
7 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Disney Plus · Peacock Premium

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) · Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster
🍅 83%★ 7.6adventure · fantasyMaxPeacock

The wizarding world's warmth shadowed by gathering evil

The difference: Hogwarts intimacy decades later

Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

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Doctor Strange
2016 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 89%★ 7.5fantasy · adventure · actionDisney+

Two things both keep coming back to: magic and wizard

The difference: Leans further into action

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

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Kong: Skull Island
2017 · dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
🍅 75%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasy

An expedition into territory ruled by creatures beyond imagining

The difference: Monster-movie mayhem — awe comes with a body count, not whimsy

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 64%★ 7.8adventure · fantasy · actionMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: magic

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

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Wonder Woman
2017 · dir. Patty Jenkins
🍅 93%★ 7.3action · adventure · fantasyMax

The same mix in both: dream logic, then scale

An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest poster
🍅 53%★ 7.4adventure · fantasy · actionDisney+

One thread runs through both: witch

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.

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The Legend of Tarzan
2016 · dir. David Yates
🍅 36%★ 6.2fantasy · action · adventureRent or buy

Yates directing a gentle outsider who understands creatures best

The difference: No magic — empire and jungle instead

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

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Seventh Son
2014 · dir. Sergei Bodrov
🍅 12%★ 5.5adventure · fantasy

Monster-wrangling apprenticeship in a world of witches and dark magic

The difference: Generic sword-and-sorcery — no wizarding whimsy or charm

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward.

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Upon the Magic Roads
2021 · dir. Oleg Pogodin
★ 5.7adventure · fantasy

A gentle misfit and magical companions stumbling through wonders

The difference: Russian fairy-tale oddity — modest effects, unfamiliar rhythms

Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

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The Golden Compass
2007 · dir. Chris Weitz
🍅 42%★ 6.1adventure · fantasy

A gifted outsider and their creatures against cold authority

The difference: Parallel-world cosmology, franchise cut short

In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

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Warcraft
2016 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 29%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyStarz

A fully built magical world with its own factions, rules and wonders

The difference: Battlefield fantasy — war councils instead of creature charm

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

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Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 · dir. Rupert Sanders
🍅 48%★ 6.1adventure · fantasy · drama

Dark-edged fairy-tale spectacle where magic carries real menace

The difference: Grim chase story — no menagerie and very little lightness

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

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