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Movies like Pipa and The Treasure Ruins (2025)

The best movies like Pipa and The Treasure Ruins (2025) are True Spirit (2023), Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020) and The Water Man (2020). If Pipa and The Treasure Ruins hooked you with its adventure, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. True Spirit (2023)

    When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  2. Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)

    Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

  3. The Water Man (2020)

    Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's father Amos must immerse himself in his son's world to find them.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  4. Come Away (2020)

    Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of despair until finally they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

  5. The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)

    When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  6. Momo (2025)

    Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  7. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

    Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  8. The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)

    A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  9. Bookworm (2024)

    Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  10. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

    Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  11. White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)

    A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  12. Return to Nim's Island (2013)

    Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  13. Treasure Island (1934)

    In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  14. Kings of the Sun (1963)

    In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  15. Treasure Island (1950)

    Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  16. Treasure Island (1990)

    Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Hispaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious island. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scallywag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Hispaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the ship.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  17. The Blue Bird (1940)

    Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

  18. Call of the Wild (2009)

    Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

  19. The Naughty Nine (2023)

    Fifth-grader Andy finds himself without a present from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other naughty-listers to help him execute an elaborate heist on Santa’s Village at the North Pole to get the presents they feel they deserve.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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  20. Dear Eleanor (2016)

    Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

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What are the best movies like Pipa and The Treasure Ruins?

The closest matches to Pipa and The Treasure Ruins are True Spirit (2023), Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020) and The Water Man (2020). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Pipa and The Treasure Ruins?

Start with True Spirit (2023), the closest match to Pipa and The Treasure Ruins.

What is the highest-rated movie like Pipa and The Treasure Ruins?

True Spirit (2023), rated 7.0/10 by 277 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Pipa and The Treasure Ruins?

The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

How are movies similar to Pipa and The Treasure Ruins chosen?

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