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Movies that feel likeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

If you loved Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the closest films we have are Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Before I Fall (2017) and Life of Pi (2012). Most of the picks below share Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'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 The Look of Silence (2014).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Yatesepicdreamlikemelancholy
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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 Half-Blood Prince (2009) · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

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🍅 74%★ 7.2fantasy · adventureMaxPeacock

Wizarding-world politics and creatures beyond Hogwarts' walls

The difference: Lighter caper decades before Harry's war

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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Before I Fall
2017 · dir. Ry Russo-Young
🍅 64%★ 6.4drama · fantasyStarz

Dreamlike and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

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Life of Pi
2012 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 86%★ 7.9adventure · dramaMax

A young person's faith tested by forces beyond understanding

The difference: Survival parable, the magic ambiguous

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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🍅 53%★ 7.4adventure · fantasy · actionDisney+

One thread runs through both: witch

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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 Look of Silence
2014 · dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
🍅 96%★ 8.2history · documentary

Only the grief carries over — a brother facing the people who took his

The difference: A real documentary about genocide — no fantasy, no comfort at all

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

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The King's Speech
2010 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 94%★ 8drama · historyParamount+

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Goes its own way on the dream logic

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

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

Yates directing a hero hemmed in by civilized authority

The difference: Colonial-era adventure, magic absent

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: magic

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 young rebel against a controlling magical authority

The difference: Steampunk cosmology; the fight stays unfinished

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 fantasy 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

Common ground: magic

The difference: Leans further into drama

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

Dreamlike adventure, and it commits to that

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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