Movies like Beasts of the Southern Wild

The Fall

2006

playful · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

The Secret of NIMH

1982

admiring, playful · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Drifting Home

2022

magic realism · Fantasy, Adventure

Big Fish

2003

magic realism · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

The Lost Prince

2020

playful, sympathetic · Fantasy, Adventure

Children Who Chase Lost Voices

2011

Close on feel, same era · Fantasy, Adventure

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy

2022

admiring, sympathetic · Fantasy, Adventure

Happy as Lazzaro

2018

magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

Petite Maman

2021

magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond

2019

sympathetic · Drama, Fantasy

The Boy and the Beast

2015

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Suzume

2022

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Pom Poko

1994

Close on feel · Fantasy, Adventure

La Chimera

2023

playful, magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

Children of the Sea

2019

Close on feel, same era · Fantasy, Adventure

Boy & the World

2014

Close on feel, same era · Fantasy, Adventure

Mind Game

2004

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Wicked: For Good

2025

based on play or musical · Fantasy, Adventure

Mirai

2018

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Where the Wild Things Are

2009

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

Life of Pi

2012

magic realism · Drama, Adventure

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

2019

admiring, playful, sympathetic · Adventure

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2021

candid, admiring · Drama