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10 Best Movies Like Annie

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

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#1
Annie

Annie

1982★ 6.6

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

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an or...

#2
Annie

Annie

1999★ 6.4

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

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find...

#3
The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015★ 6.6

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

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother....

#4
Problem Child

Problem Child

1990★ 6.1

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

Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and eve...

#5
Newsies

Newsies

2017★ 8.0

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

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of th...

#6
Curly Top

Curly Top

1935★ 6.4

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

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time ...

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