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Movies that feel likeThe Call of the Wild (2020)

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

If you loved The Call of the Wild, the closest films we have are A Dog's Purpose (2017), Bridge to Terabithia (2007) and Hugo (2011). All three share The Call of the Wild's epic and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Incredible Journey (1963).

🍅 62% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Sandersepicwarmcozycontemplative
12 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · Disney Plus · MGM Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Call (2013) · The Call (2020)

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

The same two preoccupations: dog, and pets

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

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Bridge to Terabithia
2007 · dir. Gábor Csupó
🍅 85%★ 7.2adventure · drama · familyDisney+

Epic where it counts, warm underneath

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.

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Hugo
2011 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5adventure · drama · family

Cozy and contemplative in the same breath

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

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The Incredible Journey
1963 · dir. Fletcher Markle
🍅 89%★ 7adventure · familyDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dog

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Call of the Wild

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

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Swiss Family Robinson
1960 · dir. Ken Annakin
🍅 81%★ 7.1adventure · familyDisney+

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: 60 years apart, and the 1960s show

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.

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Cars 3
2017 · dir. Brian Fee
🍅 70%★ 6.7animation · drama · familyDisney+

Family with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to animation than The Call of the Wild does

Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen finds himself pushed to the brink—and suddenly, the champion who once ruled the track is fighting just to stay in the race. With his career hanging in the balance, McQueen must turn to an ambitious young race technician with a plan of her own, draw strength from the legacy of the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and risk everything on one last shot at glory.

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Mira
2022 · dir. Dmitry Kiselyov
★ 5.8science fiction · drama · adventurePrime Video

Cozy drama in both cases

Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.

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Old Yeller
1957 · dir. Robert Stevenson
🍅 100%★ 7.2adventure · drama · familyDisney+

Common ground: pets

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

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Wonder
2017 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 86%★ 7.9family · dramaRent or buy

Family built on stillness, twice over

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

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

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

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

Warm drama in both cases

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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Dumbo
2019 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 46%★ 6.2family · fantasy · adventureDisney+

Adventure with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

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