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Movies that feel like Moana (2026)

If you loved Moana, the closest films we have are Moana 2 (2024), Coyote vs. Acme (2026) and Help! I'm a Fish (2000). All three share Moana's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Teenage Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Thomas Kailwarmcozydreamlikewittyplayfulepic

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Moana 2
2024 · dir. David G. Derrick Jr.
🍅 61%6.3adventure · animation · comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: sea and ocean

The difference: Reviewed even better

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys alongside Maui and a new crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.

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Coyote vs. Acme
2026 · dir. Dave Green
🍅 96%7.7comedy · adventure · family

Warm and cozy in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Moana

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

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Help! I'm a Fish
2000 · dir. Michael Hegner
6adventure · animation · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: musical

The difference: None of the dream logic Moana is built on

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

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

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

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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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
2026 · dir. Aaron Horvath
🍅 42%6.3family · comedy · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Moana does

Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore the family legacy. Alongside companions new and old, the brothers travel across the stars to stop the young heir's crusade.

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

Both land dream logic and wit at once

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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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
6.1comedy · family

Family built on play, twice over

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

Warm fantasy, and it commits to that

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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Dolittle
2020 · dir. Stephen Gaghan
🍅 15%5.6family · comedy · fantasy

Comedy with a pulse of scale, in both cases

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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Moana
2016 · dir. John Musker
🍅 96%7.6adventure · comedy · family

Both are working the same pair: sailboat, curse

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

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Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008 · dir. Thomas Langmann
5.2fantasy · adventure · comedy

Cozy adventure in both cases

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013 · dir. Thor Freudenthal
🍅 43%5.7adventure · family · fantasy

One thread runs through both: demigod

In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.

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