Movies like Your Name.

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 108 min · Animation · Drama · Romance

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   After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: anime and high school student
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

   Strong story similarity

   2006 · 98 min · Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Science Fiction

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   When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: anime and high school
   • shared time travel movie style

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   Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 90 min · Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Romance

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   In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: afterlife and anime
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   5 Centimeters per Second

   Same director

   2007 · 63 min · Animation · Drama · Romance

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   Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   A Whisker Away

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 104 min · Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Romance

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   A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: anime and school
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Hello World

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 98 min · Animation · Drama · Romance · Science Fiction

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   A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: anime and time travel

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   Josee, the Tiger and the Fish

   Shared cast

   2020 · 98 min · Animation · Drama · Romance

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   With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   The Anthem of the Heart

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 119 min · Animation · Drama · Music · Romance

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   A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: anime and high school
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Mirai

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 98 min · Adventure · Animation · Drama · Family · Fantasy

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   Four-year-old Kun struggles with jealousy after his newborn sister, Mirai, begins receiving most of his family’s attention. Retreating to the garden, he encounters Mirai as a teenager from the future and embarks on extraordinary journeys across his family’s past, gradually discovering new perspectives on love, belonging and what it means to become an older brother.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: anime and time travel
   • shared time travel movie style

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    Fireworks

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 90 min · Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Romance

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: anime and supernatural

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