Movies Like Darkside Blues

If you liked Darkside Blues (1994), a animation and horror movie directed by Yoriyasu Kogawa, 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.

1
Cat Soup (2001)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and science fiction
The surreal black comedy follows Nyatta, an anthropomorphic kitten, on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister's soul.
2
Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
As Nobita, Gian, Shizuka, and Suneo are making their own space movie, a fleeing bug-sized alien president makes his way to Earth, and needs the help of the kids and Doraemon to stop an oppressive dictatorship…
3
My Hero Academia: You're Next (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and science fiction
In a society devastated by the effects of an all-out war between heroes and villains, a mysterious giant fortress suddenly appears, engulfing towns and people one after another. Then, a man reminiscent of All Might…
4
Devilman - Volume 3: Devilman Apocalypse (2000)
★ 7/10Also animation and horror
Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could…
5
Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights (1991)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
Shizuka ends up in the fantasy world of the 'Arabian Nights' story. However, Doraemon, Nobita, Suneo, and Jyaian must find her from the imaginary Middle East and bring her back to the real life.
6
Cranston Academy: Monster Zone (2020)
★ 6/10Also animation and science fiction
An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
7
Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal…
8
X (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and horror
It's the year of destiny, and 15 year old Kamui Shiro, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence, having left when he was very young. He wants to be with his childhood friends, Fuma (his best…
9
Baoh: The Visitor (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and animation
Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old…
10
Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
Doraemon and Nobita decide to build a perfect toy robot. However, their creation turns out to be a little more uncanny than an object of appreciation and wonder.
11
Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and science fiction
As members of ESWAT, the elite forces serving Olympus, Deunan and Briaereos are deployed anywhere trouble strikes. Olympus finds itself under a stealth attack - cyborg terrorism, deadly nanotech zealots, and rioting…
12
Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and mystery
In the chambers of the Edo harem, two newcomers uncover political intrigue, rivalry and a vengeful spirit only one traveling medicine seller can vanquish.
13
Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and science fiction
After a typhoon hits Nobita's town, he and Doraemon discover a wind sprite who, with some help from Doraemon's 22nd-century tech, takes them and their friends to a fantastic world of wind and storm people. But the wind…
14
Memories (1995)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and science fiction
Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
15
Demon City Shinjuku (1988)
★ 6/10Also animation and horror
Ten Years ago, Genichiro Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge…
16
Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and science fiction
Nobita tries to prove to Doraemon and his friends that dinosaurs are still alive, and, after finding an underground cave, discovers a hollow earth civilization of knights and saurian steeds that Suneo must be rescued…
17
Paprika (2006)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and science fiction
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from…
18
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and science fiction
In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami who wipes out most of them…
19
Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King (2000)
★ 7/10Also animation and science fiction
Doraemon and its friends open a hole in the time and they're travel to the Country of Mayana, a lost Mayan civilization in the jungle.
20
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and mystery
Second compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 9-13. Riko and Reg descend to the third and fourth layer where Riko has her first experience of the Curse.