Movies Like The Gruffalo's Child (2011)

The Gruffalo's Child is a 2011 adventure, animation, family, fantasy film from Uwe Heidschötter with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Gruffalo and Ernest & Celestine.

Adventure Animation Family Fantasy

The Gruffalo

2009

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

7.3

MagicScore

Ernest & Celestine

2012

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

7.8

MagicScore

The Witches

1990

A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

6.9

MagicScore

Roald Dahl's The Witches

2020

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

6.4

MagicScore

Get a Horse!

2013

Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.

7.6

MagicScore

Tiny Giants 3D

2014

A short about what happens under and around us. A chipmunk and a small mouse go on an adventure; they grow and learn about life and its obstacles.

7.0

MagicScore

The Prince and the Pauper

1990

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

6.7

MagicScore

Mickey's Trailer

1938

Goofy's in the driver's seat, Mickey's in the kitchen, and Donald's in bed in Mickey's high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot, it takes them onto a dangerous closed mountain road. When Goofy realizes this, he accidentally unhooks the trailer, sending it on a perilous route. They come very close to disaster several times, while the oblivious Goofy drives on and hooks back up to them.

7.4

MagicScore

The Band Concert

1935

Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead. After Donald gives up, a bee comes along and causes his own havoc. The band then reaches the Storm sequence, and the weather also starts to pick up; a tornado comes along, but they keep playing.

7.2

MagicScore

#10

Puss Gets the Boot

1940

Jasper is given an ultimatum by his master: break one more thing and you're out. Rodent Jerry does his best to make sure that his tormentor "gets the boot".

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Lonesome Ghosts

1937

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

6.9

MagicScore

#12

Bath Day

1946

Minnie gives Figaro a bath and ties a ribbon around his neck. Figaro feels like a sissy, and when he mixes it up with some alley cats, they mock him, and the leader attacks. But Figaro is so afraid that his shaking topples a series of trash cans onto the aggressor. The rest of the cats didn't see this happen, and think Figaro defeated their leader. Of course, now he's all dirty, and he needs another bath.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

Society Dog Show

1939

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out Pluto rescues Fifi and is proclaimed a hero.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

Timid Tabby

1957

Tom's cousin George, who's terribly afraid of mice, comes to visit. Jerry's confused, since Tom and George look alike.

6.5

MagicScore

#15

Tugboat Mickey

1940

Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance. Sadly, Mickey's crew consists of Donald and Goofy, so getting underway to help is not easy. Goofy has to fight a boiler's door to get it stoked with coal (and when he succeeds, he overfills it) and Donald gets tangled up in the machinery. Not to mention that nobody casts off, so they drag half the dock along with them. The overworked boiler soon explodes.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

2022

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

8.2

MagicScore

#17

Cinderella

1979

The Cinderella story.

7.2

MagicScore

#18

Halloween Is Grinch Night

1977

When the sour-sweet wind starts blowing again, the Whos retreat to their homes because they know the Grinch will soon be a'prowlin. Young Eukariah Who has to make a trip to the Euphemism (outhouse), when the wind blows him away to a confrontation with the gruesome Grinch. Eukariah decides that the Grinch must be stopped, so he faces his fears and confronts the Grinch and his spooks.

6.0

MagicScore

#19

The Lorax

1972

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Stick Man

2015

Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?

6.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Gruffalo's Child?

The top films similar to The Gruffalo's Child by MovieMagicScore are The Gruffalo (7.3), Ernest & Celestine (7.8), The Witches (6.9). Each shares adventure/animation/family/fantasy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Gruffalo's Child worth watching?

The Gruffalo's Child holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 149 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Gruffalo's Child?

The Gruffalo's Child (2011) is a adventure, animation, family, fantasy film directed by Uwe Heidschötter, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Shirley Henderson, Robbie Coltrane.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Gruffalo's Child?

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About movies like The Gruffalo's Child

This ranked list pairs The Gruffalo's Child (2011), a adventure and animation and family and fantasy film from Uwe Heidschötter, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Helena Bonham Carter take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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