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Movies that feel likeSnow White and the Huntsman (2012)

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

If you loved Snow White and the Huntsman, the closest films we have are Russian Ark (2002), A Writer's Odyssey (2021) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). All three share Snow White and the Huntsman'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 Suzume (2022).

πŸ… 48% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rupert Sandersepicdreamlikecontemplative
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)

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Russian Ark
2002 Β· dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· fantasy Β· history

A dreamlike, painterly wander through history's ghosts and grandeur

The difference: An experimental one-take art film, no fairy tale and no villain

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

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A Writer's Odyssey
2021 Β· dir. Lu Yang
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.2fantasy Β· action Β· adventure

A fantasy world of tyrants and quests rendered on the same sweeping scale

The difference: A meta story-within-a-story structure, not a straightforward fairy tale

Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 Β· dir. David Yates
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.2fantasy Β· adventureMaxPeacock

Magic and a hidden wizarding world given the same dreamlike grandeur

The difference: A creature-caper adventure, no evil queen or captive princess

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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Suzume
2022 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
β˜… 7.6animation Β· drama Β· adventureNetflixHulu

A young woman's journey through a magical, disaster-tinged world

The difference: An anime road trip of healing, not a captivity-and-revenge fairy tale

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 Β· dir. David Yates
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6adventure Β· fantasyMaxPeacock

Common ground: magic

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

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Big Fish
2003 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 76%β˜… 8adventure Β· fantasy Β· drama

Fairy-tale imagery in service of a story about legacy and larger-than-life myth

The difference: A father's tall tales, warm where this one is menacing

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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Seventh Son
2014 Β· dir. Sergei Bodrov
πŸ… 12%β˜… 5.5adventure Β· fantasy

Dark fairy-tale magic where an apprentice is thrown into a fight against witches

The difference: A mentor-apprentice quest, no imprisoned princess or evil queen

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 Β· dir. Chris Weitz
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.1adventure Β· fantasy

Epic and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Lighter on stillness

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 Β· dir. Oleg Pogodin
β˜… 5.7adventure Β· fantasy

A journey through magical, dreamlike worlds ruled by tyrants and legend

The difference: A picaresque folk quest, no queen's captivity or coup at its center

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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10,000 BC
2008 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 10%β˜… 5.1adventure Β· action Β· drama

Adventure built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans further into action

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

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The Tree of Life
2011 Β· dir. Terrence Malick
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 Β· dir. Mark Gustafson
πŸ… 27%β˜… 7.6animation Β· fantasy Β· adventureNetflix

A dark, painterly fairy tale about a life shaped by someone else's cruelty

The difference: Stop-motion allegory about fascism, gentler than a queen's tyranny

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

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