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Movies that feel likeLuca (2021)

Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.

If you loved Luca, the closest films we have are A Letter to Momo (2012), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). All three share Luca's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Babe (1995).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Enrico Casarosawarmcozydreamlikecontemplativewittyplayful
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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%★ 7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

A shy kid, a new town, and impossible friends who pull her out of her shell

The difference: Slower and sadder — grief sits underneath the whimsy

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 80%★ 6.6fantasy · family · comedyDisney+

Old-fashioned wonder that treats childhood imagination as sacred

The difference: A musical through and through — songs carry what silence did in Luca

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023 · dir. Aaron Horvath
🍅 59%★ 7family · comedy · adventurePeacock

Two inseparable pals plunged into a colorful world with its own rules

The difference: Franchise theme-park energy over quiet character moments

While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

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Babe
1995 · dir. Chris Noonan
🍅 98%★ 6.9fantasy · drama · comedy

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Turning Red
2022 · dir. Domee Shi
🍅 95%★ 6.9animation · family · comedyDisney+

A kid hiding a creature-sized secret while growing up in public

The difference: Chattier and more chaotic — teen-girl energy replaces lazy summer

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

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The Santa Clause
1994 · dir. John Pasquin
🍅 73%★ 6.6fantasy · drama · comedyDisney+

Dreamlike and contemplative in the same breath

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 6.7comedy · drama · fantasyNetflix

Warm family fantasy about becoming someone better than you were

The difference: An adult's Christmas time-loop — kids may drift

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

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CJ7
2008 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · drama · family

A poor kid's impossible creature companion brightening a hard life

The difference: Slapstick and hardship side by side — rougher edges than Pixar allows

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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A Minecraft Movie
2025 · dir. Jared Hess
★ 5.6family · fantasy · comedyMax

Misfit friends finding themselves inside a bright, rule-bending world

The difference: Loud video-game chaos — nothing like Luca's sun-washed calm

Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.

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Casper
1995 · dir. Brad Silberling
🍅 59%★ 6.2fantasy · comedy · familyHuluPeacock

A friendly outsider hiding what he is, longing to join the human world

The difference: Live-action '90s spookiness with a bittersweet ghost story core

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

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Home
2015 · dir. Tim Johnson
🍅 53%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · animation

An unlikely friendship across species that softens both sides

The difference: Broader DreamWorks gags — the sweetness is louder, less earned

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.

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Night at the Museum
2006 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 43%★ 6.5fantasy · family · comedyHuluDisney+

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.

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