Movies Like Connecting Flights

If you liked Connecting Flights (2014), a drama and animation movie directed by Arthur Gorissen, 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
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8/10Also drama
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
2
Piper (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also animation
A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. In the process, she encounters a traumatic experience that she must overcome in order to survive.
3
Heavy Metal (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also animation
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
4
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)
★ 8/10Also animation
It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings…
5
On a Wing and a Prayer (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
After their pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight, passenger Doug White must safely land a plane and save his entire family from insurmountable danger.
6
Bunraku (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.
7
Black Mirror (2011)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified…
8
Bambi (1942)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
9
Zog (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also animation
Zog is a keen young dragon who wants to learn to fly, roar, and breathe fire, so he studies at the Dragon School. He is desperate to impress his teacher and win a golden star, but he is prone to accidents and he has to…
10
Air Mater (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also animation
Mater's decision to fly lands him accidentally at a big airshow.
11
Snoopy Presents: It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also animation
Charlie Brown is determined to win the big baseball game. But things turn into a fiasco right before the matchup, when Sally bonds with a little flower on the pitcher's mound and vows to protect it at all costs.
12
Limbo (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo…
13
Competition (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also animation
Two minions working in a bomb lab get competitive.
14
The Book of Life (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also animation
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans…
15
Horns (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
16
The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
17
The Good Neighbor (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…
18
Run (1991)
★ 6/10Also drama
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
19
Propeller One-Way Night Coach (2026)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
During the golden age of aviation, a young airplane enthusiast and his mother embark on a cross-country journey to Hollywood—and their simple flight transforms into the trip of a lifetime.
20
The Hummingbird Project (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.