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2016 · Movie · PG · your starting pointIf Alice Through the Looking Glass is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like Alice Through the Looking Glass, ranked
1. Gulliver Returns (2021)
This animated adventure mirrors the return-to-a-magical-realm structure, where a protagonist revisits a fantastical world they once saved, only to discover new threats requiring their intervention and resourcefulness.
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Director Mike Newell crafts the same ornate Victorian-era fantasy aesthetic and emphasis on internal character struggles alongside external quests that define this maritime adventure through a magical realm.
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Time-displaced protagonists must navigate surreal kingdoms with shifting rules and supernatural allies to defeat tyrannical rulers controlling their realms through impossible conditions.
4. The Cat Returns (2002)
Carroll's time-bending logic puzzles give way to Studio Ghibli's enchanted bureaucracy, where a girl must navigate a parallel world's absurd rules to reclaim her agency and return home.
5. The Golden Compass (2007)
This universe boasts the same ornate production design and clockwork logic where a resourceful girl must navigate a dangerous realm filled with talking animals and morally complex allies to uncover a conspiracy.
6. Guardians of the Ancient Shadow Crown (2014)
The ornate visual storytelling and portal-fantasy structure—where a young protagonist enters a visually lavish underground realm to confront a powerful antagonist threatening their newfound companions—creates the same sense of wonder and peril.
7. In the Lost Lands (2025)
Carroll's maze of temporal logic and royal dysfunction returns in this darkly stylized quest where a powerful woman navigates a hostile realm's twisted rules to reclaim what was lost.
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