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Movies that feel likeMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

If you loved Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the closest films we have are Big Fish (2003), Mommy (2014) and The Fabelmans (2022). All three share Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children's dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Straight Story (1999).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tim Burtonepicdreamlikewistful
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Big Fish
2003 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 8adventure · fantasy · drama

Tim Burton working the same nerve twice

The difference: Less wistful, more its own thing

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

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Mommy
2014 · dir. Xavier Dolan
🍅 89%★ 8drama

Dreamlike where it counts, wistful underneath

The difference: Lighter on scale

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

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The Fabelmans
2022 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 92%★ 7.5dramaPeacock

Adventure built on dream logic, twice over

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

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The Straight Story
1999 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 95%★ 8drama · adventureDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

The difference: Played as drama first

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

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🍅 74%★ 7.2fantasy · adventureMaxPeacock

Both lean on scale more than on fantasy

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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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 63%★ 7fantasy · comedy · adventureHuluStarz

A wistful, nostalgic pull toward a hidden legacy from the past

The difference: A small-town ghost-hunting legacy story, not a peculiar orphanage

When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 52%★ 6.3fantasy · action · adventure

An ordinary young man pulled into an ancient, magical conflict

The difference: A giant-slaying fairy-tale action epic, no orphans or time loops

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

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Robin Hood
2018 · dir. Otto Bathurst
🍅 15%★ 5.4adventure · action · thrillerRent or buy

A nostalgic, myth-tinged world where old legends feel newly urgent

The difference: A medieval outlaw revolt, no orphans or supernatural powers

A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018 · dir. Andy Serkis
🍅 51%★ 6.5adventure · dramaNetflix

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

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

Fantasy with a pulse of scale, in both cases

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

Dreamlike adventure in both cases

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

Fantasy in the same key

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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