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10 Best Movies Like Free Willy

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

#1
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

1995★ 5.9

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

Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill....

#2
Free Willy 3: The Rescue

Free Willy 3: The Rescue

1997★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Free Willy for fans of Family & Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph ...

#3
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove

2010★ 6.2

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

After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown se...

#4
Forget Paris

Forget Paris

1995★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Free Willy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fa...

#5
For the Love of Spock

For the Love of Spock

2016★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Free Willy for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam....

#6
The Butterfly

The Butterfly

2002★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Free Willy for fans of Family & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl....