Movies like Wicked
2024 · Movie · your starting pointIf Wicked is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like Wicked, ranked

1. Wicked: For Good (2025)
The second film deepens the fractured friendship at Wicked's emotional core, exploring how public pressure and political machinations drive a wedge between Elphaba and Glinda while forcing them to reckon with their opposing choices.

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dorothy's journey through Oz gains new depth when you see Elphaba's perspective on the same magical world, revealing how prejudice and circumstance transform heroes into villains.

3. The School for Good and Evil (2022)
The School for Good and Evil mirrors Wicked's exploration of friendship forged between characters sorted into opposing moral categories, while both films use magical academy settings to interrogate how institutions construct heroes and villains.

4. The Witches (2020)
The Grand High Witch's campaign to eradicate children mirrors Wicked's exploration of how those in power manipulate fear and prejudice to consolidate control, wrapped in a darkly comedic tone that undercuts its villain's seemingly righteous mission.

5. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
Oz the Great and Powerful explores the same magical kingdom through a con artist's eyes, revealing how manipulation and self-interest shape the very myths that Wicked deconstructs from its heroines' perspective.

6. Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026)
The film explores how childhood friendships fracture under institutional pressure and competing loyalties, mirroring the emotional core of watching two characters discover they're on opposing sides of a magical conflict.
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