
Movies that feel likeToy Story 3 (2010)
If you loved Toy Story 3, the closest films we have are Up (2009), Tangled (2010) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). All three share Toy Story 3's warm and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Boy & the World (2014).
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If Toy Story 3 hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Toy Story (1995) · Toy Story 2 (1999) · Toy Story 4 (2019) · Toy Story 5 (2026)

Pixar's grief-and-letting-go masters, back to back
The difference: An old man's adventure, same ache

Both are working the same pair: hostage, villain
The difference: Trades the melancholy of Toy Story 3 for an angle of its own

Both land warmth and wistfulness at once
The difference: Takes it somewhere less whimsical than Toy Story 3 does

Whimsical animation in both cases
The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Toy Story 3

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain
The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Toy Story 3 does

Both lean on melancholy more than on family

Playful comedy, and it commits to that
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Lee Unkrich working the same nerve twice

Friends band together when a shiny new institution isn't what it seems
The difference: Frantic food-pun invention with little ache of growing up

Animation built on warmth, twice over

Family with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Loyal companions swept somewhere strange, fighting to stay a family
The difference: Busy musical sequel — sweet but emotionally weightless
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