Best Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 52849. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
Rated 9.2/10 on IMDb, from 2021, 1h 54m. A robot apocalypse put the brakes on their cross-country road trip.
2. Spirited Away (2001)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2001, 1h 59m. Chihiro wanders into a magical world where a witch rules -- and those who disobey her are turned into animals.
3. Back to the Future (1985)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1985, 1h 56m. Eccentric inventor Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly, 30 years into the past.
4. Princess Mononoke (1997)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1997, 2h 07m. A prince infected with a lethal curse sets off to find a cure and lands in the middle of a battle between a mining town and the animals of the forest.
5. The Wishing Tree (2017)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 1h 56m. Five children living on the edge of a forest band together to save a magical wishing tree from destruction and find their own paths to happiness.
6. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1988, 1h 22m. While spending a summer in the Japanese countryside with their father, two young sisters befriend mystical creatures who live in the nearby forest.
7. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2004, 1h 59m. Teenager Sophie works in her late father's hat shop in a humdrum town, but things get interesting when she's transformed into an elderly woman.
8. The Princess Bride (1987)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 1987, 1h 38m. This cult classic comedy-romance follows a peasant farmhand as he battles bumbling outlaws and an evil prince to win the hand of his one true love.
9. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2010, 1h 38m. As the son of a Viking leader, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: He must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle.
10. Song of the Sea (2014)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2014, 1h 33m. The last of a magical race of seals that become human on dry land, Saoirse and her brother must return to the sea in this animated adventure.