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Movies that feel likeThe Rescuers (1977)

Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

If you loved The Rescuers, the closest films we have are The Sword in the Stone (1963), Robin Hood (1973) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). All three share The Rescuers' warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Last Unicorn (1982).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wolfgang Reithermandreamlikewarmcozywhimsicalepic
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The Sword in the Stone poster
The Sword in the Stone
1963 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 65%★ 7.1animation · family · fantasyDisney+

Wolfgang Reitherman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the scale of The Rescuers for an angle of its own

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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Robin Hood
1973 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 56%★ 7.5animation · family · adventureDisney+

The same hand behind both of them: Wolfgang Reitherman

With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh poster
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977 · dir. John Lounsbery
🍅 100%★ 7.5animation · family · adventureDisney+

Both land dream logic and warmth at once

Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.

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The Jungle Book
1967 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 88%★ 7.6family · animation · adventureDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

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The Last Unicorn
1982 · dir. Jules Bass
🍅 75%★ 7.3fantasy · animation · familyPrime Video

The same mix in both: comfort, then whimsy

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

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Kirikou and the Sorceress
1998 · dir. Michel Ocelot
🍅 96%★ 7.5fantasy · adventure · animationPrime Video

Epic fantasy in both cases

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1990s show

Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.

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Return to Never Land
2002 · dir. Robin Budd
🍅 46%★ 5.8adventure · fantasy · animationDisney+

Family built on dream logic, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole poster
🍅 52%★ 6.9animation · adventure · family

Common ground: villain

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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Anastasia
1997 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 83%★ 7.2animation · family · fantasyDisney+

Animation with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.

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The Aristocats
1970 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 64%★ 7.1animation · comedy · familyDisney+

Cozy adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than The Rescuers does

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

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Epic
2013 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 65%★ 6.6animation · adventure · familyMax

Both lean on whimsy more than on fantasy

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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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 21%★ 6adventure · fantasy · animation

Both lean on scale more than on family

Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.

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