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Movies that feel likeHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.

If you loved Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the closest films we have are The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). All three share Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'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 Russian Ark (2002).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfonso Cuarónepicdreamlikewarm
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 Chamber of Secrets (2002) · 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)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies poster
🍅 59%★ 7.4action · adventure · fantasyMax

Epic fantasy stakes closing in on a young protagonist

The difference: War spectacle, none of the school-year intimacy

Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

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🍅 74%★ 7.2fantasy · adventureMaxPeacock

The wizarding world grown moodier, magic with real shadows

The difference: Adult period fantasy, no Hogwarts homecoming

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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🍅 76%★ 6.9adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

Children crossing into a magical world with wise guides and real evil

The difference: Storybook brightness where Cuarón goes gothic

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

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

A night flight out of a stifling world into danger and wonder

The difference: Younger-skewing fairy tale — whimsy outweighs the menace

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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How to Train Your Dragon
2025 · dir. Dean DeBlois
🍅 78%★ 7.7fantasy · family · actionNetflix

A misfit kid whose forbidden friendship rewrites his world's rules

The difference: A remake retracing the animated original almost beat for beat

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 81%★ 6.5family · adventure · fantasyParamount+Peacock

Epic where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Leans further into family

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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

Common ground: magic

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Lighter on warmth

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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Eragon
2006 · dir. Stefen Fangmeier
★ 5.1fantasy · action · adventureDisney+

A chosen boy discovering his power against a rising dark force

The difference: Flat YA adaptation — the magic never feels lived-in

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

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Pan
2015 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 27%★ 5.7fantasy · adventure · familyMax

An orphan swept from grey London into a world of flight and destiny

The difference: A famously misjudged origin story — spectacle without soul

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.

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A Little Princess
1995 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · family · fantasy

Cuarón again finding enchantment in a child's darkest school days

The difference: The magic is imagined — a hardship story, not a wizard one

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: time travel

The difference: Less warm, more its own thing

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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