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10 Best Movies Like Annie

If you loved Annie, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Annie

Annie

2014★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd...

#2
Annie

Annie

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find...

#3
UglyDolls

UglyDolls

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of...

#4
Curly Top

Curly Top

1935★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time ...

#5
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

2022★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own...

#6
The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Annie for fans of Comedy & Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother....

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