Movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
567K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, stylized, offbeat, colorful, visual, touching, sweet, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
childhood, children, fantasy world, chocolate, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, imagination, poverty, food, factory, parents and children, transformation, mysterious character, boy, psychiatrist, cooking and food, storytelling, young heroes, greed, society, fight, disneyland ...
Time:
year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
bavaria, new york, japan, england, india, germany, asia ...
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Most similar movies to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, whimsical, fairy tale and humorous films with plots about magic, children, family, dialogue, fantasy world, childhood and catastrophe mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Into the Woods (2014), Nanny McPhee (2005), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style:
feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty ...
Style:
fairy tale, funny, sweet, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, redemption, xmas, imaginary kingdom, dog, village, burglary, santa claus, little girl, fantasy world, surrealism, christmas time ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, visually appealing, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, date night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, imaginary kingdom, magical, transformation, alice in wonderland, teenage girl, imaginary, cat, animal, dream ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 1870s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, london, china
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Italy, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Style:
fairy tale, gothic, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
witch, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, woods, good versus evil, singing, broadway, wizards and magicians, cinderella, medieval, imaginary, fantasy world ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, offbeat, dark comedy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, orphan, death in the family, child in peril, danger, dishonesty, steampunk, child, boy, siblings relations, destiny, nobility ...
Time:
year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place:
peru
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, sweet, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
witch, magic, childhood, nanny, mentor, family values, children, mischievous children, single father, widower, prank, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2006, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, visually stunning, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, fairy, magical, imaginary, children, siblings relations, magic, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, troll ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand, UK, India, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the sequel to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, entertaining, surreal, visual ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
fantasy world, time travel, alice in wonderland, time, talking dog, time loop, childhood, magic, medieval, queen, imagination, wonderland ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2016, 1870s, 19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
goofy hero, getting home, cat, youth, friendship, imaginary kingdom, disorder, talking cat, impersonating a police officer, child, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2003
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
little people, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, mischievous children, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, rescue, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
190K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The origin of Willy Wonka and his adventures into Loompa Land
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
chocolate, eccentricity, genius, giraffe, dancing, laundry, top hat, balloon, magician, abuse of power, contract, castle ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, visually stunning, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
fantasy world, witch, talking animal, good versus evil, magic, legends and myths, heroes, medieval, magical, wizard, sword fight, imaginary kingdom ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, year 1940, future, 20th century
Place:
england, london, antarctic
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, winter, childhood, vacation, child, airport, young heroes, christmas time ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
new york, florida, manhattan new york city, miami, chicago ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
193K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, children, elementary school, supernatural ability, school, parents and children, mischievous children, teachers and students, disorder, childhood, child prodigy, adoption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
america
Similarity:
67%
197K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style:
feel good, touching, sweet, uplifting, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, toddlers, family friendly ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child's point of view, child, brother sister relationship, literary, dance, dog ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, britain ...
Similarity:
73%
84K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, captivating, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, fantasy world, pirate, fairy, children, boy, pirate ship, magic, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, peter pan, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
london, fictional island, europe, big ben london, england ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
harry potter, magic, friendship, witch, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, magical, best friend, chosen one, boarding school, children ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1991, year 2001, year 1992, 80s ...
Place:
england, london, yorkshire, europe
Similarity:
71%
409K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, offbeat, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
jungle, fantasy world, childhood, magic, board game, time travel, getting home, children, parallel world, danger, friendship, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 90s, year 1969, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style:
fairy tale, saga, entertaining, sexy, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen fantasy, kids, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, teacher, friendship, creature, youth, boarding school life, chosen one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to ...
Style:
light, inspirational, humorous, fairy tale, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
objects come to life, magic, miraculous event, friendship, coming of age, accountant, prodigy, mysterious character, fish out of water, curses spells and rituals, save the day, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, usa, seattle
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Style:
dark fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, fantasy world, time loop, magic, children, monster, imaginary, youth, superhuman powers, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, orphan ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1943, year 2016, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
england, wales, florida, europe
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a ...
Style:
feel good, funny, fairy tale, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
wish come true, imaginary kingdom, miraculous event, life turned upside down, nothing goes right, imaginary, imagination, medieval, children, escapades, disorder, swimming pool ...
Time:
year 2008, 70s, 20th century, year 1974, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, entertaining, absurd, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
fantasy becomes reality, shark, fantasy world, child protagonist, imaginary kingdom, heroes, imaginary friend, imaginary, superhero, coming of age, escapades, young heroes ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, happy ending, magic, love story, beast, opposites attract, true love, fantasy world, prince, heroine, spell, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
18th century, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Style:
melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous, futuristic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot:
inheritance, toys, good versus evil, childhood, family relations, anti war, sibling relationship, rivalry, family life, parents and children, inventor, innocence lost ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own ...
Style:
entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, scenic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magic, children, nanny, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, fantasy world, destiny, witch, objects come to life, world war two, farm ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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 rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Style:
touching, visually stunning, talky, fairy tale, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
childhood, imaginary kingdom, children, creature, imagination, child, fantasy world, loneliness, island, boy, surrealism, mischievous children ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits. Larry tries desperately to keep the museum ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, mystical, hilarious, predictable ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical, dinosaur, escapades, tour guide, security guard, disorder, statue comes to life, museum, transformation, objects come to life, pharaoh, new job ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, stone age, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america, rome italy, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
youth, wish fulfillment, young heroes, heroes, mischievous children, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, rivalry, danger, supernatural, misfit ...
Time:
year 2004, year 1917, 1910s
Similarity:
67%
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