Movies like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
If you like "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" you are looking for feel good, humorous and light movies about / with chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood and tour guide themes of Family, Fantasy and Musical genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
207K
Where to Watch
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: 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 amid a world of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers?
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, surreal, exciting, stylized, semi serious, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, poverty, inventor, river, greed, birthday, boat, tunnel, girl, child protagonist, wish fulfillment, candy store, grandparent, rags to riches, child's point of view, contests and competitions ...
Time:
70s
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona, montana
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, whimsical and light films with plots about childhood, children, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, runaway and magic mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Finian's Rainbow (1968), The Wiz (1978), Scrooge (1970), Paddington (2014), The Borrowers (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
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:
feel good, stylized, fairy tale, colourful, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
magic, childhood, children, fantasy world, chocolate, contests and competitions, social differences, candy, factory, imagination, transformation, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bavaria, india, switzerland, atlanta georgia, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
An Irishman, Finian, and his daughter Sharon, arrive in Rainbow Valley, a Southern town of tobacco sharecroppers in the state of Missitucky. The town has its own resident dreamer, Woody, who thinks that he might be able to put the town on the map by ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, colourful, dramatic, satirical ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
racism, dancing, small town, music, irish, redemption, mentor, love, prejudice, adaptation, love story, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
16K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, sexy, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
wizard of oz, witch, magic, dancing, fantasy world, music, african american, disco, dog, thanksgiving, black history, lion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
Style:
feel good, visually appealing, touching, unusual plot structure, clever ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, ghost, holiday, dancing, redemption, destiny, charles dickens, supernatural ability, childhood, death, musician, happy ending ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 70s, 1860s
Place:
london, tokyo, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
121K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style:
touching, sweet, feel good, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
animals, bear, talking animals, children, kids and family, jungle, childhood, taxidermist, interspecies friendship, secrets, adaptation, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, greed, good versus evil, disorder, youth, rescue, nude, magical creature ...
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, stylized, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, forest, curses spells and rituals, siblings relations, escapades, parents and children, coming of age, witch, cannibalism, countryside, isolation, childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, preschoolers
Plot:
cat, talking cat, imaginary kingdom, goofy hero, youth, family relations, friendship, disorder, getting home, fish out of water, rescue, child ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
Style:
sweet, light, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
car, flying car, fantasy world, childhood, inventor, youth, first contact, magic, spy, dancing, children, single father ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
354K
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, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, jungle, childhood, magic, monkey, time travel, board game, animals, disappearance, getting home, children, parallel world ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, year 1969, year 1995, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Also search:
Movies like Bridge to Terabithia
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
christmas, ghost, holiday, muppets, childhood, greed, time travel, disney, kids and family, talking animals, change of heart, escapades ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 1840s, future, victorian era
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
⇓ 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, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, preschoolers ...
Plot:
witch, magic, childhood, nanny, children, family values, mischievous children, parents and children, single father, prank, mentor, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
177K
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, girls' night, teens, preschoolers ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, disney, dancing, child's point of view, bird, dog ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
141K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah - a teenager with an active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favourite book, "Labyrinth", to take the baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen fantasy ...
Plot:
surrealism, good versus evil, puppet, fantasy world, friendship, rescue, heroes, maze, beast, imaginary kingdom, female protagonist, hopes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
children, friendship, horse, little girl, magic, greed, family relations, young heroes, rescue, disorder, siblings relations, mischievous children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, usa, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Also search:
Movies like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the ...
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, dark fantasy, stylized, scary ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, horror for children
Plot:
witch, magic, hotel, good versus evil, children, supernatural, chocolate, halloween, childhood, mouse, young heroes, transformation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
sweet, humorous, light, feel good, motivational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, miraculous event, objects come to life, friendship, coming of age, accountant, prodigy, mysterious character, faith, curses spells and rituals, fish out of water, wizards and magicians ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, clever, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, magic, coming of age, native american, toys, toy comes to life, boy, time travel, children, toy soldier, cowboy, childhood ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, london, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, orphan, countryside, girl, friendship, garden, little girl, beautiful scenery, children, old mansion, uncle, magic ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
india, england, yorkshire, africa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Updated version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the classic fairy-tale, with an all-star, multi-racial cast.
Style:
fairy tale, sexy, stylized, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, preschoolers, family outing ...
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, magic, women, childhood, interracial romance, music, witch, princess, interracial love, life philosophy, chase ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Also search:
Movies similar to Matilda
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
feel good, touching, serious, fairy tale, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
boarding school, orphan, princess, childhood, imagination, little girl, fantasy life, servant, school, children, girls' boarding school, magic ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, future, 1910s
Place:
new york, india, england, london, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
captivating, touching, humorous, fairy tale, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
world war two, nanny, countryside, magic, children, witch, mischievous children, kids and family, wartime life, farm, fantasy world, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, harry potter, fantasy world, friendship, witch, chosen one, magical, ghost, school, youth, wizards, boarding school ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1981, year 1991 ...
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, funny, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
disney, magic, chase, youth, good versus evil, car, talking animals, stereotypes, culture clash, wilderness, school, farce ...
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
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:
emotional, touching, stylized, light, talky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, mischievous children, monster, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, creature, children, coming of age, imagination, loneliness, youth, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Also search:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory related movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dragon, magic, imaginary kingdom, child protagonist, imagination, good versus evil, fantasy world, oracle, heroic mission, evil force, child hero, school ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, unusual plot structure, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
muppets, friendship, childhood, unlikely friendships, children, catastrophe, writers, adaptation, gangsters, adoption, brutality, justice ...
Place:
sesame street
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
7K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary friend, childhood, magic, friendship, youth, bittersweet, imagination, circus, lone hero, life philosophy, vengeance, life & death ...
Place:
new jersey, las vegas, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style:
emotional, sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, escape from reality, classmate, loneliness, magical, friends, fantasy world, school, children, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
atmospheric, gothic, fairy tale, dark, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, children, death in the family, steampunk, child in peril, happy ending, young heroes, child, siblings relations, dishonesty, destiny, loss of mother ...
Time:
1940s, victorian era
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
