Movies like Weathering with You
Weathering with You (2019) is a animation movie directed by Makoto Shinkai. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. 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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2. Hotarubi no Mori e (2011)
★ 8.3 · 1,258 votes · Romance, Animation, Fantasy
One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...
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3. The Garden of Words (2013)
★ 7.6 · 2,314 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
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4. Suzume (2022)
★ 7.9 · 1,873 votes · Animation, Drama, Adventure
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
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5. Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
★ 8.3 · 552 votes · Animation, Drama, Fantasy
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
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6. Your Name. (2016)
★ 8.5 · 13,097 votes · Animation, Romance, Drama
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
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7. One Piece Film: Strong World (2010)
★ 7.5 · 416 votes · Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki, the Golden Lion, reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During his long seclusion, he was able to come up with a scheme to bring the World Government to his knees. On his way to execute the plan, Shiki crosses paths with the Straw Hat Pirates and becomes so impressed with Nami's knowledge of meteorology that he abducts her to forcedly enlist her into his crew. Luffy and the gang end up on a strange land populated with monstrous beasts as they desperately search for Shiki and Nami.
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8. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
★ 8.4 · 11,566 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
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9. Castle in the Sky (1986)
★ 8.0 · 4,836 votes · Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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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. The Pagemaster (1994)
★ 6.4 · 817 votes · Family, Fantasy, Animation
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.
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12. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
★ 7.8 · 2,328 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Drama
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
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13. Ocean Waves (1993)
★ 6.4 · 1,018 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
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14. Fireworks (2017)
★ 6.6 · 378 votes · Animation, Romance, Fantasy
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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15. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
★ 7.4 · 2,859 votes · Animation, Fantasy, Drama
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
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16. 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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