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Movies that feel like The Rescuers (1977)

If you loved The Rescuers, the closest films we have are The Sword in the Stone (1963), Robin Hood (1973) and The Aristocats (1970). All three share The Rescuers' warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wolfgang Reithermandreamlikewarmcozywhimsicalepic
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If The Rescuers hit the spot, these will too

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The Sword in the Stone
1963 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 65%7.1animation · family · fantasy

Wolfgang Reitherman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the scale The Rescuers is built on

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

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Robin Hood
1973 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 56%7.5animation · family · adventure

The same hand behind both of them: Wolfgang Reitherman

With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.

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The Aristocats
1970 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 64%7.1animation · comedy · family

One thread runs through both: villain

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than The Rescuers does

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

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The Jungle Book
1967 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 88%7.6family · animation · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 98%7.3adventure · animation · comedy

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977 · dir. John Lounsbery
🍅 100%7.5animation · family · adventure

Both land dream logic and whimsy at once

Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.

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Peter Pan
1953 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
🍅 79%7.3animation · family · adventure

Epic fantasy in both cases

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

Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Neverland, the kids must face Captain Hook and foil his attempts to get rid of Peter for good.

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The Last Unicorn
1982 · dir. Arthur Rankin Jr.
🍅 75%7.3fantasy · animation · family

Dreamlike family, and it commits to that

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

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Anastasia
1997 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 83%7.2animation · family · fantasy

Animation with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.

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Epic
2013 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 65%6.6animation · adventure · family

Adventure built on comfort, twice over

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

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The Dark Crystal
1982 · dir. Jim Henson
🍅 78%7.1adventure · family · fantasy

Both lean on scale more than on fantasy

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · dir. Henry Selick
🍅 91%6.7family · animation · adventure

Whimsical family, and it commits to that

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

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