Movies like Wolf Children
Wolf Children (2012) is a animation movie directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Princess Mononoke (1997)
★ 8.3 · 9,374 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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2. Wolfwalkers (2020)
★ 8.2 · 1,471 votes · Animation, Family, Adventure
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
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3. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
★ 8.1 · 9,163 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Family
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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4. Epic (2013)
★ 6.6 · 3,029 votes · Animation, Adventure, Family
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
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5. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
★ 8.5 · 6,878 votes · Animation, Drama, War
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
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6. Akira (1988)
★ 7.9 · 5,067 votes · Animation, Sci-Fi, Action
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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7. A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)
★ 8.4 · 4,730 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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8. Arrietty (2010)
★ 7.7 · 3,303 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Family
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
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9. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
★ 7.9 · 4,099 votes · Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
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10. The Wind Rises (2013)
★ 7.8 · 3,514 votes · Animation, Drama, History
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
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11. Perfect Blue (1998)
★ 8.3 · 3,396 votes · Animation, Thriller
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
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12. Spirited Away (2001)
★ 8.5 · 19,045 votes · Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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13. Bambi (1942)
★ 7.0 · 6,155 votes · Animation, Drama, Family
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
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14. Pokémon 3: The Movie (2000)
★ 6.6 · 714 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
When the sadness of her father's disappearance gets to Molly Hale, she unknowingly uses the Unown to create her own dream world along with Entei, who she believes to be her father. When Entei kidnaps Ash's mother, Ash — alongside Misty and Brock — invade the mansion looking for his mom and trying to stop the mysteries of Molly's Dream World and Entei!
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15. The Lion King (1994)
★ 8.3 · 20,274 votes · Animation, Family, Drama
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.
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16. Belle (2021)
★ 7.6 · 924 votes · Animation, Sci-Fi, Drama
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
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17. Mirai (2018)
★ 7.2 · 893 votes · Animation, Family, Fantasy
Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden, he encounters Mirai as a teenager from the future and embarks on extraordinary journeys across his family’s past, gradually discovering new perspectives on love, belonging and what it means to become an older brother.
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