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10 Best Movies Like The Iron Giant

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

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#1
Robots

Robots

2005★ 6.5

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

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those ...

#2
I Am Iron Man

I Am Iron Man

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Iron Giant for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A documentary covering pre-production topics like suit design and construction, storyboards, animatics, and pre-viz, sets, working in the suit, casting, rehearsals, and preparation...

#3
Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999★ 7.3

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

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a ro...

#4
Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet

2002★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Iron Giant for fans of Animation & Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space...

#5
Open Season

Open Season

2006★ 6.2

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

Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely...

#6
Short Circuit

Short Circuit

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Iron Giant for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get t...