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Movies that feel likeHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.

If you loved Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the closest films we have are Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). All three share Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' epic and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Russian Ark (2002).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Columbusepicdreamlike
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

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🍅 74%★ 7.2fantasy · adventureMaxPeacock

The wizarding world's textures — wand duels, ministries, and marvelous creatures

The difference: Adult leads in jazz-age New York, no Hogwarts

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.

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

Warm-hearted fantasy where an unlikely hero leaves comfort for adventure

The difference: A road quest, not a school year

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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🍅 53%★ 7.4adventure · fantasy · actionDisney+

Playful blockbuster fantasy with curses and creature spectacle

The difference: Swashbuckling adult adventure, no coming-of-age

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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Russian Ark
2002 · dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
🍅 89%★ 7.2drama · fantasy · history

The same mix in both: scale, then dream logic

The difference: Played as drama first

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

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Conan the Barbarian
1982 · dir. John Milius
🍅 68%★ 6.9adventure · fantasy · actionNetflix

Sword-and-sorcery peril where black magic has real teeth

The difference: Brutal grown-up pulp — slavery, blood and no whimsy

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.

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The Mummy
1999 · dir. Stephen Sommers
🍅 64%★ 7.1adventure · action · fantasyPeacock

An unearthed ancient evil and heroes racing to reseal it

The difference: Pulpy Egypt adventure, no wands or houses

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

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

Apprentice wizardry against witches and creeping dark forces

The difference: Joyless dark fantasy — 12% on RT, none of the school 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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The Golden Compass
2007 · dir. Chris Weitz
🍅 42%★ 6.1adventure · fantasy

A gifted child, a hidden world, and adults with sinister designs

The difference: Colder steampunk fantasy; the whimsy is armored

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

Epic adventure in both cases

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: magic

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

A magic-soaked realm of elves and wizards sliding toward war

The difference: Dense game lore aimed at initiates, not newcomers

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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The Scorpion King
2002 · dir. Chuck Russell
🍅 40%★ 5.5action · adventure · fantasyPeacockStarz

Common ground: magic

The difference: Leans further into action

In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.

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