Movies Like Violet Evergarden: The Movie

If you liked Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020), a animation and drama movie directed by Taichi Ishidate, 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
Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and fantasy
A strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is missing. Stranger still, none of the Soul…
2
Violet Evergarden: Recollections (2021)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and fantasy
An emotionally scarred former child soldier becomes a letter writer in this condensed recap of the moving, gorgeously animated award-winning series.
3
To Every You I've Loved Before (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and romance
While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune reveals that she’s from World Line 85, an alternate universe in which she…
4
To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and romance
Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel…
5
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos the Movie Part 1 (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and fantasy
The Sailor Guardians enjoy a brief moment of peace until Mamoru's Golden Crystal is stolen by Sailor Galaxia and the mysterious Sailor Starlights appear. One by one, Sailor Moon’s friends and loved ones are targeted by…
6
maboroshi (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving teenage Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
7
Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and fantasy
After battling their way through all seven Singularities, the Chaldea Security Organization has finally arrived at the endpoint of the Grand Order: The Final Singularity, Grand Temple of Time: Solomon. Now is the time…
8
Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and fantasy
In a mythical kingdom, the mighty Imperial Knights harness a magical substance known as Aer to power their weapons and protect humanity from the monsters of the forest. But something strange is afoot; the Aer is…
9
Fireworks (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and romance
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.
10
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and drama
A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
11
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and drama
Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong…
12
A Wind Named Amnesia (1990)
★ 6/10Also animation and drama
A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later, a young man who has been re-educated travels…
13
Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and drama
Plagued by a seemingly endless stream of haunting dreams, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming sense of anger and emptiness. Then, one fateful day, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Nagisa, and…
14
Colorful (2010)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed…
15
Scarlet (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and drama
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End…
16
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and drama
One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find…
17
Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and drama
Takizawa prevented Japan's destruction - and then he vanished. Six months later, clues lead Saki to the Big Apple in search of her missing friend. Meanwhile, the remaining Selecao are plotting their final move. Some of…
18
Drifting Home (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and fantasy
One 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.
19
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and fantasy
Iroha's life gets knocked off its orbit when Kaguya, a carefree runaway from the Moon, moves in and convinces her to perform in a virtual world together.
20
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and drama
Lupin is framed for the murder of Inspector Zenigata by a mysterious assailant holding a silver-coloured Walther P38 pistol Lupin himself once owned. Tracking the true killer leads Lupin to the island of the…