
Movies that feel likeHow to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
If you loved How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the closest films we have are Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). All three share How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World's whimsical and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Book of Life (2014).
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If How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: How to Train Your Dragon (2010) · How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

A young hero's quest to honor a lost parent while saving those he loves
The difference: A stop-motion Japanese folktale, quieter and stranger than a dragon epic

An unlikely cross-species friendship carrying real emotional weight
The difference: A survival-journey story, without HTTYD's romance or dragon-flight scale

A melancholy fantasy adventure where an unlikely bond carries someone away from home
The difference: A stop-motion orphan's journey, smaller and stranger than a dragon saga

An animated coming-of-age tale about proving yourself worthy of leadership
The difference: A human-hero war story, without HTTYD's central dragon-and-rider bond

One thread runs through both: villain
The difference: Lighter on melancholy

Both land whimsy and warmth at once
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A sweeping animated prequel about the weight of stepping into leadership
The difference: A hand-me-down legacy story, gentler pace than HTTYD's dragon-flight spectacle

A flight-filled fantasy sequel wrestling with growing up and letting go
The difference: A slighter Disney sequel with none of HTTYD's emotional weight or scale

A whimsical animated tale about protecting a fragile natural world
The difference: A message-driven eco-fable, smaller in scope than an epic dragon saga

Both are built on the same subject: villain
The difference: Less melancholy, more its own thing

Cozy where it counts, epic underneath
The difference: Played as fantasy first

Animation with a pulse of romance, in both cases
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