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Movies that feel likeToy Story 3 (2010)

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

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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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Toy Story (1995) · Toy Story 2 (1999) · Toy Story 4 (2019) · Toy Story 5 (2026)

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Up
2009 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 98%★ 8.3animation · comedy · familyDisney+

Pixar's grief-and-letting-go masters, back to back

The difference: An old man's adventure, same ache

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

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Tangled
2010 · dir. Byron Howard
🍅 89%★ 7.7animation · family · adventureDisney+

Both are working the same pair: hostage, villain

The difference: Trades the melancholy of Toy Story 3 for an angle of its own

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She strikes a deal with Flynn Rider, a charming wanted thief, and the duo set off on an action-packed escapade.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 85%★ 7.9dramaPrime Video

Both land warmth and wistfulness at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less whimsical than Toy Story 3 does

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

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Arrietty
2010 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
🍅 94%★ 7.6fantasy · animation · familyMax

Whimsical animation in both cases

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Toy Story 3

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

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How to Train Your Dragon 2
2014 · dir. Dean DeBlois
🍅 92%★ 7.8fantasy · action · adventureParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Toy Story 3 does

Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons—and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

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The Lion King
1994 · dir. Roger Allers
🍅 92%★ 8.5animation · family · dramaDisney+

Both lean on melancholy more than on family

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.

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Chicken Little
2005 · dir. Mark Dindal
🍅 36%★ 5.7animation · family · comedyDisney+

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

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Coco
2017 · dir. Lee Unkrich
🍅 97%★ 8.4family · animation · musicDisney+

Lee Unkrich working the same nerve twice

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013 · dir. Cody Cameron
🍅 71%★ 6.3animation · family · comedy

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

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

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Boy & the World
2014 · dir. Alê Abreu
🍅 93%★ 7.5animation · fantasy · adventure

Animation built on warmth, twice over

Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.

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The Little Mermaid
1989 · dir. John Musker
🍅 92%★ 7.6animation · family · fantasyDisney+

Family with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.

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Rio 2
2014 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 50%★ 6.3animation · adventure · comedyDisney+

Loyal companions swept somewhere strange, fighting to stay a family

The difference: Busy musical sequel — sweet but emotionally weightless

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

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