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10 Best Movies Like Pete's Dragon

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

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#1
Out to Sea

Out to Sea

1997★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete's Dragon for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! ...

#2
Follow That Bird

Follow That Bird

1985★ 6.4

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

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foste...

#3
Lighthouse Keeping

Lighthouse Keeping

1946★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete's Dragon for fans of Animation & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Donald is a lighthouse keeper. He shines the light on a sleeping pelican; the angry bird comes into the lighthouse and tries to put out the light. Donald and the bird do battle thr...

#4
The Groove Tube

The Groove Tube

1974★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete's Dragon for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks....

#5
Derrick contre Superman

Derrick contre Superman

1992★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete's Dragon for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Derrick and his deputy, Harry Klein, back from holidays, discover that french TV channel 5 is dead. They'll have to build a plan to create a new "new 5 channel". They'll be helped ...

#6
Pains of Autumn

Pains of Autumn

2009★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pete's Dragon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a nationalistic wealthy landowner's idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and politics under the shadow of the ev...