15 Movies Like Pippi Goes on Board

Loved Pippi Goes on Board? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

We Can Be Heroes
#1

We Can Be Heroes

When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Ron's Gone Wrong
#2

Ron's Gone Wrong

In a world where walking, talking, digitally connected bots have become children's best friends, an 11-year-old finds that his robot buddy doesn't quite work the same as the others do.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Yours, Mine & Ours
#3

Yours, Mine & Ours

Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Princess Protection Program
#4

Princess Protection Program

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Pippi Longstocking
#5

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is an extraordinary little girl who lives alone in her house, while her father sails the seven seas. Pippi's irrepressibly fun nature makes her easy to befriend, as neighbors Tommy and Annika find, but can also earn ire, especially from social worker Mrs. Prysselius.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Pippi Goes on Board.

PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue
#6

PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue

A royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Roll Bounce
#7

Roll Bounce

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Ploey: You Never Fly Alone
#8

Ploey: You Never Fly Alone

A plover chick has not learned to fly when his family migrates in the fall. He must survive the arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself in order to be reunited with his beloved one next spring.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Pippi Longstocking
#9

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series. This was followed by Pippi Goes on Board.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Son of Rambow
#10

Son of Rambow

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Children's Island
#11

Children's Island

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Pippi Goes on Board.

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
#12

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his sister Anika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a waterfall in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to an orphanage. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
#13

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Pippi Goes on Board.

A Simple Twist of Fate
#14

A Simple Twist of Fate

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.

The Children of Noisy Village
#15

The Children of Noisy Village

The story of the children who live in Bullerbyn, Sweden, through the spring and summer months.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Pippi Goes on Board.