Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Big Fish

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

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#1
The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid

1989★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chanc...

#2
Oz the Great and Powerful

Oz the Great and Powerful

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Adventure & Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save ...

#3
Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Adventure & Fantasy & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ru...

#4
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

2010★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Adventure & Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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 ...

#5
The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

1982★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Adventure & Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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 ou...

#6
FairyTale: A True Story

FairyTale: A True Story

1997★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Fish for fans of Fantasy & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley F...

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