If You Liked Return to Nim's Island, Watch These Next
Finished Return to Nim's Island (2013) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Return to Nim's Island, most of them are family, adventure.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Moon the Panda(2025)
6.6FamilyAdventureAlso family and adventure
Due to his poor academic performance, twelve-year-old Tian is sent to live with his grandmother in the remote mountains of Sichuan. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, he finds himself immersed in nature and secretly befriends a panda cub he names Moon. Together, Tian and Moon embark on a journey of discovery…
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2.The Legend of Johnny Lingo(2003)
7.1FamilyActionAdventureAlso family and adventure
When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships are blamed upon Tama (as he is named), he is finally outcast to live…
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3.The Legend of Ochi(2025)
6.1FamilyFantasyAdventureAlso family and adventure
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
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4.The Magic Faraway Tree(2026)
6.5AdventureFamilyFantasyAlso adventure and family
A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.
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5.The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking(1988)
5.9FantasyAdventureFamilyAlso adventure and family
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his sister Anika, venture…
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6.Lassie(1994)
6.1FamilyAdventureAlso family and adventure
On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the side of the road, they take pity on the dog and adopt her. As the city family copes with the change…
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7.White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf(1994)
6.9AdventureFamilyAlso adventure and family
A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.
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8.Anastasia: Once Upon a Time(2020)
5.9FamilyAdventureFantasyAlso family and adventure
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
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10.Dolittle(2020)
6.6FamilyComedyFantasyAlso family and adventure
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is…
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11.The Secret of Roan Inish(1994)
6.7AdventureFantasyFamilyAlso adventure and family
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a…
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12.Return to the Blue Lagoon(1991)
6.2AdventureDramaAlso adventure
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
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13.True Spirit(2023)
7.0AdventureDramaHistoryAlso adventure
When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible,…
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14.A Very Brady Sequel(1996)
5.8FamilyComedyAlso family
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
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15.Finding ʻOhana(2021)
6.2AdventureActionComedyAlso adventure and family
Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
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16.Once Upon a Forest(1993)
6.5AnimationFamilyAdventureAlso family and adventure
A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.
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17.Nim's Island(2008)
5.9AdventureComedyFamilyAlso adventure and family
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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18.Call of the Wild(2009)
5.9AdventureAlso adventure
Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.
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