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Movies that feel likeHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

If you loved Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the closest films we have are Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Doctor Strange (2016) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012). All three share Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's epic and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Yatesepicdreamlike
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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 Chamber of Secrets (2002) · 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)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them poster
🍅 74%★ 7.2fantasy · adventureMaxPeacock

The wizarding world continuing past the battle of Hogwarts

The difference: A gentler creature-caper prologue, decades earlier

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

Common ground in both: magic and sorcerer

The difference: Played as action first

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

Fantasy saga craft with a beloved hero and looming darkness

The difference: A cozy beginning, not a devastating end

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+

Blockbuster fantasy where debts to dark powers come due

The difference: Swashbuckling fun — nobody's childhood ends

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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Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 71%★ 7.9action · adventure · fantasyMax

One thread runs through both: saving the world

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

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Thor: The Dark World
2013 · dir. Alan Taylor
🍅 67%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyDisney+

The same mix in both: scale, then dream logic

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

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

Yates directing another hero pulled back for a final reckoning

The difference: Jungle adventure, no magic at all

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

Old master, young fighter, and dark magic loose in the land

The difference: A witless slog by consensus — the saga weight is absent

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 child hero carrying a whole world's fate

The difference: The saga stops at book one

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

Whimsical magic quests against a tyrant king

The difference: A modest Russian fairy tale — tiny canvas, small craft

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

A dark-toned fairy tale where evil holds the throne

The difference: Gloomy style over feeling — you barely know these people

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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Mortal Kombat
2021 · dir. Simon McQuoid
🍅 55%★ 6.1action · fantasy · adventureMax

The same preoccupation in both: saving the world

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

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