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Movies that feel likeThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

If you loved The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the closest films we have are How to Train Your Dragon (2025), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). All three share The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

🍅 59% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Jacksonkineticepicdreamlikewarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

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How to Train Your Dragon
2025 · dir. Dean DeBlois
🍅 78%★ 7.7fantasy · family · actionNetflix

Dragons, battle lines and old enmities broken by one friendship

The difference: A kid-forward fable — war arrives late and gently

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 95%★ 8.8adventure · fantasy · actionMax

Middle-earth weather again: siege, exhaustion, armies at the gate

The difference: Higher stakes and more practical grit, with far less digital sheen

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 81%★ 6.5family · adventure · fantasyParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: elves

The difference: Played as family first

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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Thor: The Dark World
2013 · dir. Alan Taylor
🍅 67%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyDisney+

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The difference: Lighter on warmth

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

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🍅 53%★ 7.4adventure · fantasy · actionDisney+

Overstuffed fantasy adventure piling on creatures and set pieces

The difference: Swashbuckling comedy at sea, with no doom or elegy in the mix

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.

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Kong: Skull Island
2017 · dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
🍅 75%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasy

People dwarfed by monsters and landscape, shot purely for awe

The difference: Pulpy 1970s war-movie energy, with no lore or lineage behind it

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

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Warcraft
2016 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 29%★ 6.7action · adventure · fantasyStarz

Orc armies, wizards and warring realms rendered at maximum scale

The difference: Video-game lore dumped fast, without decades of familiar mythology

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

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Eragon
2006 · dir. Stefen Fangmeier
★ 5.1fantasy · action · adventureDisney+

A farm boy, a dragon and a kingdom's fate in classic fantasy dress

The difference: A rushed, flattened epic — the lore never earns its scale

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 92%★ 7.3action · adventure · fantasyDisney+

Dreamlike action, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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Aquaman
2018 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%★ 6.8action · adventure · fantasyMax

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.

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Wonder Woman
2017 · dir. Patty Jenkins
🍅 93%★ 7.3action · adventure · fantasyMax

Mythic heroism played with sincerity and real battlefield sweep

The difference: A comic-book origin story set in actual history, not a fantasy world

An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.

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Pan
2015 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 27%★ 5.7fantasy · adventure · familyMax

An orphan swept into a fantastical war for a magical realm

The difference: Garish origin-story invention that never quite coheres

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.

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