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10 Best Movies Like Brightness

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

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#1
Open Season 3

Open Season 3

2010★ 5.7

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

Boog, Elliot, and their forest friends return with an all-new adventure, this time in a Big Top Circus! The comedy begins when Boog's pals choose their family obligations over the ...

#2
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

2011★ 6.5

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

When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up ma...

#3
Return to Never Land

Return to Never Land

2002★ 6.5

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

In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan....

#4
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

1989★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brightness for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world....

#5
Shrek 2

Shrek 2

2004★ 7.3

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

Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after, as Shrek and the King find it diffi...

#6
Return of the Living Dead Part II

Return of the Living Dead Part II

1988★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brightness for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek ou...