Movies like The Tale of the Fox (1941)
The best movies like The Tale of the Fox (1941) are The Mascot (1933), A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959) and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990). If The Tale of the Fox hooked you with its animation and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedVincent (1982)7.8/10 from 957 votes
- NewestThe Twits (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Mascot (1933)Also in French
The Mascot (1933)
A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a sick child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they cannot afford one. The dog is boxed up for sale but escapes out onto the street with some other toys. In order to return home with an orange for the child, the stuffed dog must face a series of strange and frightening adventures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990)
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Alice (1988)
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVincent (1982)
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEven Mice Belong in Heaven (2021)
Whizzy is a little mouse, Whitebelly is a fox. They are naturally mortal enemies. One day, after an unfortunate accident, both meet in animal heaven. Together, they will embark on a fantastic journey and discover friendship can overcome everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Snails (1966)
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (1947)
Tom, sick of Jerry stealing the milk out of his bowl, poisons it. Instead of killing the mouse, the potion transforms him into a muscular beast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCreature Comforts (1989)
A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFantasmagorie (1908)
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
A blue cat named Buxton is found in the Magic Garden. With help from the Blue voice (played by Fenella Fielding), Buxton enters the ruins of the old treacle factory where he is crowned king after correctly identifying the colours of seven doors (coloured different shades of blue). Buxton throws all the characters of The Magic Roundabout except Dougal into prison and steals Zebedee's magic moustache.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer (1984)
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Town Called Panic (2009)
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wind in the Willows (1983)
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Severed Heads (1957)
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDarkness, Light, Darkness (1990)
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Little Fox (1981)
A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Angel (1982)
The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
The Red Balloon (1956)
A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ugly Duckling (1939)
An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pied Piper (1986)
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNeighbours (1952)
In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
A deer, disillusioned by the consumerism that defines his life. A lizard, ostracized from society, forever wandering. A chance meeting in the middle of a field. Who will survive? And who will transcend existence? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShrek (2001)
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Twits (2025)
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016)
After capturing the good witch, the villainous King Gnome creates havoc throughout Oz as he needs Dorothy's ruby slippers to take control of the Emerald City. So, it is up to Tom and Jerry to save the land of Oz!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Star (2017)
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told: the first Christmas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevolting Rhymes (2017)
Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Tale of the Fox?
The closest matches to The Tale of the Fox are The Mascot (1933), A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959) and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Tale of the Fox?
People who watched The Tale of the Fox most often go on to The Mascot (1933), A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959) and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Tale of the Fox?
Vincent (1982), rated 7.8/10 by 957 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Tale of the Fox?
The Twits (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Tale of the Fox?
Yes: The Mascot (1933), The Snails (1966) and Fantasmagorie (1908).
How are movies similar to The Tale of the Fox chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Tale of the Fox, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.