20 best movies like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

List of the best movies like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016): The Golden Compass, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Pan, The Jungle Book, The Last Witch Hunter, Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage, Pete's Dragon, The Brothers Grimm, Return to Halloweentown, Warcraft.

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:53

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
Duration02:44

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
Duration02:24

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:45

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Canada
Duration02:32

    The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When the Sultan's first born is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with traveling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, New Zealand
    Duration02:18

    For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

      Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada, China, Japan
      Duration02:12

        The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantasy, adventure, family
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:52

          This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, India, United Kingdom
          Duration01:54

          The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:31

          A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantasy, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, China
          Duration01:42

          John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:55

          Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin. Together, they must save mankind from the wicked enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA

          In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accomplice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, detective
          CountryUSA, Japan
          Duration02:25

          In a world where people collect pocket-size monsters (Pokémon) to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent monster who seeks to be a detective.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:51

          In the sequel to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
          Duration02:27

          Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:46

          When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
          Duration02:24

          A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA, New Zealand
          Duration01:53

          In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
          CountryUSA

          Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:38

          When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:35

          A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice. In Disney’s magical take on the classic The Nutcracker, Clara wants a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box holding a priceless gift. A golden thread presented at her godfather’s holiday party leads her to the coveted key—which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. There Clara encounters a soldier, a gang of mice and the regents of three magical Realms. But she must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger, to retrieve her key and return harmony to the unstable world.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryUSA, India
          Duration01:28

          Dorothy wakes up 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. 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.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:47

          The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the head elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
          Duration02:24

          As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:14

          When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle is a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock he must find the secret of the house and save the world from destruction.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, France
          Duration01:44

          Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryGermany, Australia, USA
          Duration01:41

          Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:25

          After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:29

          The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:54

          As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.

          Markimdb: 2
          Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar trips and loses the last five magical balloons in all of Lovelyloveville--OH NO! The Oogiloves set out to find the magical balloons in time to save their friend's party. Along the way, they meet some very interesting characters indeed, including Dotty Rounder (Cloris Leachman), Bobby Wobbly (Carey Elwes), Milky Marvin (Chazz Palminteri), Rosalie Rosebud (Toni Braxton) and Lola and Lero Sombero (Christopher Lloyd and Jaime Pressly). Can these new friends help them recover the magical balloons and get back to the cottage in time to celebrate Schluufy's surprise birthday?

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryGermany, Austria, Sweden
          Duration01:39

          Pia's life, a girl from a small German town, changes when surprisingly, finds in her garden a huge black monster. She soon discovers that the mysterious creature, which called Yoko, is actually a kind yeti spiritually protecting animals and children worldwide. Yoko is constantly showing his friends Pia and their unique qualities, but children are not the only ones who want the Yeti. Its great value calls attention to two hunters who want to take advantage of the yeti.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryPoland

          After a serious car accident, Lukasz discovers that the blue door in his new room lead to alternate reality.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:07

          In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia
          Duration01:52

          A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryFrance, Belgium
          Duration01:51

          Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryGermany, Netherlands, USA, Denmark, United Kingdom
          Duration01:43

          Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!), encounters trouble when his clan is threatened by a dangerously obsessed hunter. Fate brings these two boys together, as Tony & Rudolph set off an action-packed battle to stop the villain, save Rudolph's family and learn the power of friendship.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
          Duration01:44

          In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA, Italy
          Duration01:46

          The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.




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