Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Lightyear

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

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#1
Monsters vs Aliens

Monsters vs Aliens

2009★ 6.2

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

When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and ...

#2
Transformers One

Transformers One

2024★ 8.0

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

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever....

#3
Elio

Elio

2025★ 6.9

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

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergala...

#4
Home

Home

2015★ 6.8

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

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing ...

#5
Earth to Echo

Earth to Echo

2014★ 5.9

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

After a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. ...

#6
Planet 51

Planet 51

2009★ 5.9

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

When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it h...

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