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10 Best Movies Like Pinocchio

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

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#1
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough

2006★ 5.5

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

Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away...

#2
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...

#3
Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1951★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pinocchio for fans of Animation & Family & Fantasy & Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades....

#4
Pete's Dragon

Pete's Dragon

1977★ 6.3

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

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper...

#5
Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower

1958★ 7.4

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

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, in...

#6
Mutiny on the Buses

Mutiny on the Buses

1972★ 7.4

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

Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money co...