Movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
525K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
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, visually stunning, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
childhood, chocolate, children, fantasy world, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, factory, imagination, poverty, transformation, parents and children, mysterious character, society, boy, cooking and food, psychiatrist, food, greed, young heroes, overweight child, eccentricity, family relations ...
Time:
year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
bavaria, new york, japan, england, india, germany, asia ...
Keyword:
candy, reboot, german, atlanta, reading, poster, strawberry
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 entertaining films with plots about magic, magical, kids and family, family relations, child, children and youth 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.
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Genre: 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, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
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, stylized, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, imaginary kingdom, dog, village, surrealism, holiday, silly humor, snow, xmas, transformation, loneliness ...
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, surreal, gothic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, magical, imaginary kingdom, transformation, teenage girl, dream, cat, imaginary, alice in wonderland, good versus evil ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1870s ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
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, dark fantasy, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
witch, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, broadway, wizards and magicians, cinderella, imaginary, singing, woods, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, France
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, sweet, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
witch, magic, childhood, nanny, family values, children, single father, mischievous children, parents and children, widower, prank, family relations ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2005, year 2006, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
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:
offbeat, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, orphan, death in the family, steampunk, danger, siblings relations, child in peril, book, happy ending, young heroes, child, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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, scary, semi serious, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, magical, fairy, children, imaginary, magic, siblings relations, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
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, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, cat, youth, friendship, disorder, talking cat, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, danger, child, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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, time loop, alice in wonderland, magic, talking dog, queen, imagination, good versus evil, talking animal, castle, alternate reality ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2016, 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
173K
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:
feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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:
light, entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, youth, rescue ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
185K
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, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
80K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
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, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, teen ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time:
year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place:
england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, feel good, humorous, fairy tale, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
magic, miraculous event, objects come to life, friendship, coming of age, accountant, mysterious character, prodigy, fish out of water, curses spells and rituals, save the day, goofy hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, future
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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103K
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:
humorous, funny, captivating, light, exciting ...
Plot:
chocolate, eccentricity, genius, greed, giraffe, male protagonist, top hat, dancing, contract, zoo, castle, balloon ...
Time:
20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, childhood, vacation, child, young heroes, mischievous children, snow, trap ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
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, entertaining, gothic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, magic, fantasy world, time loop, children, monster, imaginary, youth, orphan, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, witch ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1943, year 2016, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, imaginary kingdom, child protagonist, superhero, heroes, imaginary friend, imaginary, coming of age, escapades, young heroes ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, hilarious, predictable, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
magical, dinosaur, tour guide, museum, escapades, ancient, new job, security guard, transformation, objects come to life, statue comes to life, pharaoh ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, stone age, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, 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:
fairy tale, entertaining, scenic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, witch, children, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, world war two, farm, wartime life, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
34K
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:
stylized, melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot:
toys, good versus evil, inheritance, childhood, family relations, anti war, sibling relationship, rivalry, parents and children, family life, innocence lost, business ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
296K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, childhood, treasure, pirate, treasure map, children, mischievous children, pirate ship, group of friends, map, friendship, cave ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, fairy tale, funny, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
miraculous event, wish come true, life turned upside down, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, imagination, children, escapades, nothing goes right, storytelling, uncle nephew relationship, magic ...
Time:
year 2008, 70s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
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:
stylized, touching, dark fantasy, light, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, creature, mischievous children, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imagination, loneliness, island, children, coming of age, youth, anger ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, supernatural, danger, rivalry, misfit ...
Time:
year 2004, year 1917, 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
374K
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:
entertaining, exciting, offbeat, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
jungle, fantasy world, childhood, board game, magic, time travel, adventurer, getting home, children, parallel world, supernatural, danger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s, 19th century, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
fantasy world, witch, good versus evil, legends and myths, magic, magical, medieval, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, winter, sword fight, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
antarctic, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
284K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, light, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
witch, magic, true love, magical, fantasy world, love and romance, imaginary kingdom, fall in love, chase, sword fight, witchcraft, imaginary ...
Time:
19th century, 2000s, year 2007, future, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
93K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would ...
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, light, exciting, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
giant, imagination, childhood, magic, dream, fantasy world, friendship, little girl, orphan, wizard, kids and family, queen ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
england, fictional island, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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