Movies like Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) is a animation movie directed by Robert Stevenson. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
★ 8.5 · 6,879 votes · Animation, Drama, War
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
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2. Return to Never Land (2002)
★ 6.5 · 2,434 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan.
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3. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
★ 8.4 · 11,567 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
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4. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
★ 7.2 · 4,192 votes · Animation, Family, Fantasy
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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5. The Boxtrolls (2014)
★ 6.7 · 1,874 votes · Animation, Comedy, Family
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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6. Tinker Bell (2008)
★ 7.0 · 1,638 votes · Animation, Family, Adventure
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fairy is finally revealed in the all-new motion picture "Tinker Bell."
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7. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
★ 8.0 · 3,490 votes · Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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8. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)
★ 6.3 · 381 votes · Animation, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, from a devious new villain, the Jester. New comrades Wiser the Owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess, and Tugg the Tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colorful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald City.
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9. Dog Man (2025)
★ 7.4 · 403 votes · Family, Comedy, Adventure
When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit and roll over. As Dog Man embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief, he must stop the pretty evil plots of feline supervillain Petey the Cat.
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10. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
★ 7.4 · 992 votes · Adventure, Animation, Family
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
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11. Peter Rabbit (2018)
★ 6.7 · 1,989 votes · Animation, Adventure, Family
Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
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12. James and the Giant Peach (1996)
★ 6.6 · 1,495 votes · Family, Animation, Adventure
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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13. The House of Magic (2013)
★ 6.3 · 390 votes · Family, Fantasy, Animation
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new addition to the troupe as Jack Rabbit and Maggie Mouse plot to evict Thunder. The situation gets worse when the magician lands in hospital and his scheming nephew sees his chance to cash in by selling the mansion. Our young hero is determined to earn his place and so he enlists the help of some wacky magician's assistants to protect his magical new home.
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