10 Movies Similar to Harry Potter

It is hardly possible now to find a person who at least once in his life has not heard the story about “the boy who survived.” Yes, we are talking about the Harry Potter series.

A kind, wonderful, magical fantasy universe on which a whole generation of children grew up. They all sincerely believed that one day the owl would bring them a letter, which would say that they were accepted into the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

But while the owl is still on its way, it will not be superfluous to familiarize yourself with the list of films similar to Harry Potter.

10 Ink heart | 2008

Film “Inkheart” came out on screens in 2008. He appeared at the box office thanks to the German book of the same name by Cornelia Funke.

In the center of the plot is the doctor Mortimer or simply “Mo” and his little daughter Maggie. Daughter and father are united by a common passion for books.

When Moe and Maggie read books together, their amazing gift wakes up – to revive the characters of the books they read. But there is one “but”. Instead of an animated character, someone else must take his place in the book, and at some point in time, Maggie’s mother becomes this other.

9. Lemony Snicket: 33 misfortunes | 2004

Another similar film “Lemony Snicket: 33 misfortunes”. What scammers will go to in order to get a huge amount of money. And to kill, and to cause grievous physical injury to innocent children.

The young orphans of the Baudelaires: Violet, Klaus and Sunny, were unlucky – they faced such a swindler in the face of the evil Count Olaf.

This scoundrel will not hesitate to go to all sorts of tricks, just to get the inheritance that was left to the children after the mysterious death of their parents. Either he will pretend to be a relative, then he will pretend to be some kind of closest friend, or he will generally try to take the children away by force in order to marry the eldest Baudelaire.

Fortunately, children are not as simple as it seems, so they will be able to give a fitting rebuff to the evil count.

8. Bridge to Terabithia | 2007

Being a black sheep is incredibly difficult, especially at school. Jess Aarons saw this the hard way. He would have endured further misunderstanding from his peers if he had not met another black sheep, a girl with a strong and independent character named Leslie.

Having united against misunderstanding on the part of classmates, the guys are friends. Not far from their house, Jess and Leslie find a secret place and turn it into a secret and magical, giving it the name Terabithia, hence the name of the film – “Bridge to Terabithia”.

7. Spiderwick Chronicles | 2008

Although most do not believe in it, miracles live right next to people. You just need to look around carefully. Unfortunately, this skill is not available to everyone.

The only good news is that rarely, but there are people like Arthur spiderwick. Arthur was not only able to see miracles and magical creatures, but also detailed in his book everything he knew about them himself.

A couple of hundred years later, a boy named Jared will find Spiderwick’s book and begin to comprehend the world around him in a completely new way.

6. Golden compass | 2007

Film “Golden Compass” is an amazing story about the adventures of an extraordinary girl, Lyra Belacqua. In the world in which she lives, not everything is so simple and unambiguous. And all because there are witches, rulers of the North, bears, strong and brave warriors and much more magical and unusual.

Also, each person has his own personal protector animal, which is called daemons.

The life of the girl Lyra proceeded calmly and measuredly: she lived on the streets of Osford and talked with her best friend Roger. But events begin to pick up speed when Lyra, along with her daemon Panteleimon, saves her uncle from murder. Well, that’s still just the tip of the iceberg. A big battle is coming. And Lyra, together with Panteleimon, will take part in it not the last time.

5. Stardust | 2007

True love knows no barriers and is not afraid of anything. But often, in order to find true love or understand that a person is in front of his betrothed, it takes a considerable amount of time and a large supply of strength. This is exactly what the protagonist of the film has to understand. “Star dust” to Tristan.

From his small village, he will go on a long journey to get a star that has fallen from the sky for his beloved Victoria.

But Tristan did not even imagine that the fallen star would turn out to be a girl who, more than anything else, wants to go home to heaven. Now, in order to achieve the desired, Tristan and Yvain (that’s the name of the star) will have to join forces.

4. Fantastic Beasts | 2016-2018

Fans of stories about the adventures of magicians and wizards from the world of “Harry Potter” will surely rejoice when they start watching the movie “Fantastic Beasts”. Of course, it will not have beloved and pleasing to the eye Harry, Ron and Hermione. But what a delightful nostalgia!

In the center of the plot is a young and not yet quite experienced wizard-biologist Newt Scamander. He loves two things very much: various magical creatures and getting into various bad situations.

Due to his negligence, people deprived of magical abilities will face these same magical creatures, and this is where the fun begins.

3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | 2016

Another unusual and insanely charming movie. “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” from the talented director Tim Burton. The original book on which the film is based is called The Peculiar Children, and it appeared thanks to the pen of an American writer before Ransom Riggs.

Young guy Jacob lives with his family in Florida. His childhood was shrouded in strange and amazingly beautiful stories of his grandfather: about the mysterious island where he once lived and about children with unusual abilities.

As a child, Jacob believed in these fairy tales, but stopped when he grew up. But some mysterious events will force him to reconsider his old grandfather stories.

2. Chronicles of Narnia | 2005-2010

Could a little girl named Lucy Pevensie have imagined that when she plays hide and seek with her brothers and sister and hides in a large closet, she will find in it not only old fur coats, but also an entrance to another world? To a magical land called Narnia.

This world is inhabited by intelligent animals that can talk, as well as mythical creatures such as satyrs, fauns, griffins and many others.

Quite by chance, getting acquainted with this world, Lucy learns that he was captured by an evil white witch. But even more strange is the fact that it is Lucy, along with her brothers Edmund and Peter, as well as her sister Susan, who have to save Narnia from a terrible tyrant who plunged this beautiful world into eternal cold.

1. Percy Jackson | 2010-2019

Fans of ancient Greek myths should definitely get acquainted with such a wonderful character as Percy Jackson.

He is funny, funny, something always happens to him. And along the way, he constantly gets to know fairly well-known and remarkable characters in the myths of Ancient Greece: the Beast Minotaur, gods (such as Zeus and Hades), Cerberus, Medusa Gorgon, and this is just an incomplete list of Percy’s new acquaintances. But will it still be…