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Movies that feel likeThe Wild Robot (2024)

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

If you loved The Wild Robot, the closest films we have are The Call of the Wild (2020), Treasure Planet (2002) and Long Way North (2015). All three share The Wild Robot's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Fox and the Hound (1981).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Sanderswarmcozycerebralepicwistful
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The Call of the Wild
2020 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 62%★ 6.7adventure · family · dramaDisney+

Sanders again following an outsider learning wildness the hard way

The difference: Live-action with a CG dog — earthbound, and thinner on feeling

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.

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Treasure Planet
2002 · dir. Ron Clements
🍅 68%★ 7.2science fiction · adventure · animationDisney+

Machine-and-nature adventure with a lonely heart

The difference: Space-pirate swashbuckling

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

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Long Way North
2015 · dir. Rémi Chayé
🍅 98%★ 7.2adventure · animation · dramaPrime Video

A stark, gorgeous journey where courage means enduring the elements

The difference: No talking animals or robots — a quiet historical trek for patient kids

In 1892 Saint Petersburg, when her explorer grandfather's failure to return from his latest expedition brings dishonour to her aristocratic family, a resilient teenager runs away to follow in his trail in search of his famed ship.

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Monsters vs Aliens
2009 · dir. Rob Letterman
🍅 73%★ 6.4animation · family · adventureParamount+Peacock

An outsider discovering her strength among strange company

The difference: Spoof-forward comedy

When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...

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The Prince of Egypt
1998 · dir. Steve Hickner
🍅 79%★ 7.3adventure · animation · dramaNetflix

Animation reaching for the epic — big skies, big feelings, real loss

The difference: A biblical musical — grandeur and duty instead of gentle nurture

The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

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The Iron Giant
1999 · dir. Brad Bird
🍅 96%★ 8.1animation · drama · family

A metal outsider learning gentleness, and choosing it when it counts

The difference: Cold War shadows loom — the tears here come with real menace

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

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The Fox and the Hound
1981 · dir. Richard Rich
🍅 75%★ 7.2adventure · animation · dramaDisney+

An unlikely bond across natural lines that the world keeps testing

The difference: Slower hand-drawn pace, and its sweetness carries a lasting sting

When a feisty little fox named Tod is adopted into a farm family, he quickly becomes friends with a fun and adorable hound puppy named Copper. Life is full of hilarious adventures until Copper is expected to take on his role as a hunting dog -- and the object of his search is his best friend!

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001 · dir. Gary Trousdale
🍅 48%★ 6.9animation · family · adventureDisney+

Technology meeting wilderness with wonder

The difference: Pulp expedition adventure

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

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

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

The difference: Takes it somewhere less wistful than The Wild Robot does

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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How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 99%★ 8.1fantasy · adventure · animationParamount+

Sanders again — an outsider bonding across species lines

The difference: Viking flight epic

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

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Lightyear
2022 · dir. Angus MacLane
🍅 74%★ 6.1animation · science fiction · familyDisney+

A dutiful machine-age hero learning to improvise and love

The difference: Action-adventure polish

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

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Lilo & Stitch
2002 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 86%★ 7.4animation · family · comedyDisney+

Sanders' signature — an artificial being softened by family

The difference: Hawaiian chaos comedy

As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and ʻohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.

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