Movies Like Dreams
If you liked Dreams (1990), a fantasy and drama movie directed by Akira Kurosawa, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Pom Poko (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasyThe Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The…
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and fantasyThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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The Boy and the Heron (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and dramaWhile 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…
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Suzume (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and fantasySuzume, 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…
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Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
★ 8.4/10Also fantasySophie, 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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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also fantasySakura Kinomoto, a Card Captor, wins a game of chance and is awarded a trip to Hong Kong, along with her best friend Tomoyo and her rival, Syaoran Li. It turns out that the ancient rival of Clow Reed, the creator of…
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Big Fish (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also fantasy and dramaThroughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will…
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Cast Away (2000)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaChuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…
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Epic (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasyA 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…
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Spirited Away (2001)
★ 8.5/10Also fantasyA 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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The Dark Crystal (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasyOn another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
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Memories (1995)
★ 7.5/10Also fantasyThree back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
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The Wonderland (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasyThe story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world…
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Maborosi (1995)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
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Drifting Home (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasyOne fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home.
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Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse (2010)
★ 7.6/10Also fantasyHell – A place where beings that have committed mortal sins during their lifetime are sent. It is a realm where even Soul Reapers are forbidden to interfere. When a group of vicious Sinners plot to escape from this…
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Angel's Egg (1985)
★ 7.7/10Also fantasyIn the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasyA little boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of, until he unleashes an old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasyThe film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is…
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasyA long-running conspiracy is swirling over a mysterious power wielded by the Queen in Raja, a small country west of Tempest. When a slime who evolved into a Demon Lord named Rimuru Tempest crosses paths with Hiiro, a…