If You Liked How to Wake a Princess, Watch These Next
Finished How to Wake a Princess (1978) and want more of the same? These 17 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like How to Wake a Princess, most of them are fantasy, family.
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17 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.FairyTale: A True Story(1997)
6.4FantasyDramaMysteryAlso fantasy and family
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
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2.Maleficent(2014)
7.1FantasyAdventureActionAlso fantasy and family
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart…
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3.Ella Enchanted(2004)
6.5FamilyFantasyComedyAlso family and fantasy
Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called gift, however, is obedience. This birthright proves itself to be quite the curse once Ella finds herself in the hands of several unscrupulous characters whom she quite…
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4.Four Kids and It(2020)
6.2FamilyFantasyAlso family and fantasy
A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.
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5.The Nutcracker and the Four Realms(2018)
6.1FamilyFantasyAdventureAlso family and fantasy
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.
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6.The Little Mermaid(1976)
6.8FantasyRomanceAlso fantasy
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land.
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7.Sleeping Beauty(1959)
6.9FantasyAnimationRomanceAlso fantasy and family
Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.
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8.Puss in Boots(1988)
7.0FantasyFamilyMusicAlso fantasy and family
Following the death of their miller father, his eldest son inherits the mill, the middle one a donkey, and the youngest a cat. While initially disappointed, the lad soon learns not only that the cat can talk but is quite resourceful.
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9.Pan(2015)
6.0FantasyAdventureFamilyAlso fantasy and family
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the…
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10.Godmothered(2020)
6.7FamilyFantasyComedyAlso family and fantasy
A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman in need of something very different than a "prince charming."
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11.Snow White: A Tale of Terror(1997)
6.1FantasyHorrorAlso fantasy
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
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12.Alice in Wonderland(1999)
6.2FantasyFamilyAlso fantasy and family
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
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13.The Blue Bird(1940)
5.9FamilyFantasyAdventureAlso family and fantasy
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
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14.The Legend of Ochi(2025)
6.1FamilyFantasyAdventureAlso family and fantasy
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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16.Anastasia: Once Upon a Time(2020)
5.9FamilyAdventureFantasyAlso family and fantasy
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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