20 best movies like The Water Horse (2007)

List of the best movies like The Water Horse (2007): Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Journey to the Christmas Star, Pan, The Jungle Book, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Thief of Bagdad, The Dragon Pearl, My Pet Dinosaur, Peter Pan.

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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: 5.8
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: 5.8
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryNorway
Duration01:20

13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a broken heart, leaving the shattered King all on his own. From that day on, the King cursed the Christmas Star, thereby causing darkness and grief to descend upon the land. However, an old sage has revealed that Goldhair is still alive, and will return only if the King finds the way back to the Christmas Star. Ever since, the King has been searching for the Christmas Star every Christmas, but all in vain.

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: 6.3
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: 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: 4.7
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:33

    When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) join their respective parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and Dr LI (Wang Ji) on an archaeological dig in China they encounter something trapped beneath a temple beyond their wildest imagination. A real live Chinese dragon. Two thousand years earlier, to defend his kingdom, the dragon lent an emperor his all powerful pearl. Instead of being returned, the pearl was buried with the emperor beneath his palace, and helpless without its source of power the dragon has remained entombed ever since.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genreaction, adventure, family
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:59

    When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.

    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: 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: 6.9
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:58

    To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.

    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: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:41

    In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home

    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: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA

    The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.

    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: 4.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Australia

    Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryGermany

    Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.

    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: 4
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family
      CountrySweden, Soviet Union, Norway
      Duration01:39

      They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryHungary, United Kingdom, France, Australia, USA, New Zealand
      Duration01:43

      When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.

      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: 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: 6.1
      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.

      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: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryAustralia, New Zealand

      In the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.

      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: 4.8
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family
      CountryThailand

      A man who stops into a foster home to drop off some donations soon tells the kids a story about two teenage friends who uncover a long-lost medallion that transports them back in time.

      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: 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: 5.7
      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: 4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:37

      Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

      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: 4.7
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:06

      Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:29

      Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom and dad from these monsters who are out for revenge.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
      CountrySweden, USA
      Duration01:40

      After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his sister Anika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a waterfall in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to an orphanage. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama, adventure, family, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
      CountrySpain

      Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantasy, drama, family
      CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:43

      10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..

      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: 7
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

      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: 5.7
      Genrefantasy, family
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to nurture it.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

        After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the messages seriously, the three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source. But taking matters into their own hands gets the trio in way over their heads when they discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The epic, suspenseful and exciting journey that follows will change all of their lives forever.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryFrance, Italy, Germany
        Duration01:50

        Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.




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