Movies like Onward
Onward (2020) is a animation movie directed by Dan Scanlon. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Shrek (2001)
★ 7.8 · 19,440 votes · Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
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2. Frozen (2013)
★ 7.2 · 17,971 votes · Animation, Family, Adventure
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
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3. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
★ 8.2 · 3,821 votes · Family, Comedy, Adventure
Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore the family legacy. Alongside companions new and old, the brothers travel across the stars to stop the young heir's crusade.
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4. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
★ 7.9 · 20,386 votes · Animation, Comedy, Family
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
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5. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
★ 7.7 · 10,731 votes · Fantasy, Action, Adventure
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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6. 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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7. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
★ 6.8 · 2,581 votes · Animation, Adventure, Family
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
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8. The Lego Movie (2014)
★ 7.4 · 8,784 votes · Animation, Family, Adventure
An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.
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9. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
★ 8.2 · 9,299 votes · Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
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10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
★ 7.2 · 1,685 votes · Animation, Comedy, Action
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
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11. Nimona (2023)
★ 7.9 · 1,522 votes · Animation, Family, Fantasy
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
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12. Epic (2013)
★ 6.6 · 3,029 votes · Animation, Adventure, Family
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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13. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
★ 7.2 · 420 votes · Family, Animation, Sci-Fi
Phineas and Ferb travel across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and taken to a utopia in a far-off planet, free of her pesky little brothers.
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14. Elio (2025)
★ 6.9 · 1,154 votes · Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
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