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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Why this pick
Like Narnia, it lets children uncover a hidden realm from an ordinary home, combining family friction, storybook creatures and a steadily escalating sense of peril.
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MOVIE2005 2h 23m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
AdventureFamilyFantasy
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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The Golden Compass
Why this pick
A richly designed parallel world, a brave young protagonist and a serious undercurrent of danger echo Narnia’s blend of childhood wonder and epic moral stakes.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Why this pick
It shares Narnia’s child-centred passage into an imagined kingdom, but focuses more intimately on friendship, courage and the emotional meaning of fantasy.
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A Monster Calls
Why this pick
For the emotionally weighty side of Narnia, this visually sumptuous fable uses a child’s encounter with the fantastic to explore fear, bravery and difficult truths.
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The NeverEnding Story
Why this pick
Its earnest young hero, endangered magical world and tactile creature design deliver the same immersive, old-fashioned portal-fantasy feeling as Narnia.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During World War II, the Pevensie children, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie and Lucy Pevensie, are evacuated from a London suburb to Professor Digory Kirke's country home. Mrs Macready, the strict housekeeper, explains he is unaccustomed to hosting children.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Georgie Henley
Lucy Pevensie
William Moseley
Peter Pevensie
Skandar Keynes
Edmund Pevensie
Anna Popplewell
Susan Pevensie
Liam Neeson
Aslan
Tilda Swinton
White Witch
James McAvoy
Mr. Tumnus, the Faun
Dawn French
Mrs. Beaver