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Movies that feel likeJumanji (1995)

When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.

If you loved Jumanji, the closest films we have are The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The NeverEnding Story (1984) and The Jungle Book (2016). All three share Jumanji'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 Dark Crystal (1982).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Johnstonepicdreamlikewarmcozyuplifting
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) · Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe poster
🍅 76%★ 6.9adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

Ordinary kids step through into a magical world that demands courage

The difference: A wardrobe portal to a whole kingdom, not a game stuck in a house

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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The NeverEnding Story
1984 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 84%★ 7.3adventure · fantasy · family

A story spills off the page and becomes dangerously real

The difference: A book pulls the boy in, rather than a game pushing danger out

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

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The Jungle Book
2016 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 94%★ 7.3adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

A jungle full of real teeth and stampeding creatures closes in fast

The difference: A boy raised by wolves, not a game spilling into the suburbs

After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli, a man-cub fostered by wolves, is forced to flee the jungle, and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera, and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

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

Children are swept from an ordinary bedroom into a world of real peril

The difference: Flying pirates and Neverland, not jungle beasts in the parlor

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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The Dark Crystal
1982 · dir. Jim Henson
🍅 78%★ 7.1adventure · family · fantasyPeacock

A quest through a strange world where every creature might be a threat

The difference: Puppet-built alien world, without Jumanji's real-house intrusion

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

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Pete's Dragon
2016 · dir. David Lowery
🍅 88%★ 6.7adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

Both land scale and dream logic at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

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Return to Oz
1985 · dir. Walter Murch
🍅 59%★ 6.7adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

A magical land turns genuinely dangerous once you're pulled inside it

The difference: A darker, more unsettling Oz story with asylum-era dread

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

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🍅 48%★ 5.9adventure · fantasy · familyDisney+

An ordinary kid discovers a hidden world with monsters chasing close behind

The difference: Greek-myth demigod quest, no board game or trapped adult

Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.

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Alice in Wonderland
2010 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 51%★ 6.4family · fantasy · adventureDisney+

A whimsical world seeping into real life sends someone on a wild journey

The difference: A dreamy Wonderland quest, no board game unleashing real danger

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

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The BFG
2016 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 74%★ 6.3adventure · family · fantasyDisney+

Warm and cozy in the same breath

The difference: Trades the uplift of Jumanji for an angle of its own

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019 · dir. Joachim Rønning
🍅 40%★ 6.6family · fantasy · adventureDisney+

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2010s show

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

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A Dog's Purpose
2017 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 35%★ 7.3adventure · fantasy · family

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Jumanji does

A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

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