
Movies that feel likeThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
If you loved The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the closest films we have are The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). All three share The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug's dreamlike 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).
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If The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Middle-earth at full scale, carrying wonder and dread side by side
The difference: Weightier and better earned, with grief where the source has serial fun

Tiny humans dwarfed by an enormous creature in a hostile wild
The difference: Blunt and modern, scored to 70s rock, with no fairy-tale grandeur

Dreamlike and epic in the same breath

Fantasy built on momentum, twice over

A middle chapter that piles setpiece on setpiece and keeps rolling
The difference: Swashbuckling comedy with a slippery hero, not a solemn quest

Adventure with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Dense invented history, with magic and armies played dead straight
The difference: Thinner characters and no lived-in mythology to fall back on

Acrobatic chases through a sunbaked storybook kingdom
The difference: Video-game breezy, with no dragon-sized awe anywhere in it

Both lean on scale more than on action

Green, humid adventure where the wilderness is its own character
The difference: Earthbound and grim-toned, with no magic and no monsters

Kinetic fantasy, and it commits to that
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A hero moving through battle with genuine mythic lift
The difference: A superhero origin set against real-world war, and one lead not thirteen
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