Movies like Verte
If Verte's mix of magic, witchcraft and missing parent stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Verte's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Wolfwalkers
2020 · Directed by Tomm Moore · 102 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: magic
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack.
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Kubo and the Two Strings
2016 · Directed by Travis Knight · 102 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: magic
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery…
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Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
2010 · Directed by Spike Brandt · 75 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: magic
The gang goes on a trip to check on Velma's younger sister, Madelyn. She's been studying stage magic at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, where apparently there have been sightings of a giant griffin.
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Onward
2020 · Directed by Dan Scanlon · 102 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: magic
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021 · Directed by Han Kwang Il · 83 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: magic
Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.
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The Last Unicorn
1982 · Directed by Jules Bass · 93 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: magic
A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull.
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Peter Pan
1953 · Directed by Clyde Geronimi · 77 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: magic
Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever.
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Barbie as Rapunzel
2002 · Directed by Owen Hurley · 84 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: magic · From the same decade (2000s)
Barbie stars as Rapunzel, a young girl who is entrapped by a magical barrier by the wicked, Gothel. Rapunzel finds an escape where she finds a Prince and a feud between two kingdoms which goes back to the day she was…
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Directed by Henry Selick · 79 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: magic
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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The Black Cauldron
1985 · Directed by Richard Rich · 80 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: magic
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the…
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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Directed by Luc Besson · 94 min6.4
Why you'll like itAlso a French animated film · From the same decade (2000s)
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.
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The House of Magic
2013 · Directed by Ben Stassen · 85 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: magic
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos.