Movies like Grave of the Fireflies
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
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Original name: 火垂るの墓
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
Style:
touching, depressing, anime, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, harsh, sentimental, adult animation, dramatic ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
world war two, hunger, orphan, war, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, boy, anti war, hospital, coming of age, sadness, sad ending, food, runaway, danger, fighting illness, depression, courage, melancholy, international relations, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two, 40s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Grave of the Fireflies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about storytelling, coming of age, friendship, imagination, mentor, runaway and childhood mostly in Drama, Animation and War genres. Some movies like Grave of the Fireflies: In This Corner of the World (2016), When the Wind Blows (1986), Millennium Actress (2001), Mary and Max (2009), Barefoot Gen (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
Style:
anime, adult animation, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
wedding, world war two, bombing, female protagonist, military, anniversary, evacuation, danger, society, couples, teenager, bomber ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, east asia, asia
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style:
adult animation, depressing, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, countryside, nuclear explosion, apocalypse, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not ...
Style:
anime, emotional, adult animation, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
lost love, female protagonist, actor's life, interview, love and romance, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love story, movie star, mother daughter relationship, longing, lovers apart ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 1940s, 2000s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style:
anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
loneliness, depression, philosophy, insanity, misanthropy, suicide, alienation, hate, surrealism, infiltration, stream of consciousness, death ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style:
depressing, touching, emotional, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
loneliness, stop motion, friendship, social misfits, letter, depression, melancholy, asperger's syndrome, young woman, relationships, solitude, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 2000s, year 1976, 70s
Place:
australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old ...
Style:
anime, adult animation, political, heartbreaking, rough ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, nuclear holocaust, anti war, bombing, disaster, atomic bomb, radioactivity, radiation sickness, nuclear, burned alive, atrocity, demolished city ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, hiroshima japan
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style:
anime, sincere, touching, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, teenager, high school, japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, japanese school, suicide attempt, redemption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, war, children, friendship, childhood, nazi, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008, year 1941 ...
Place:
germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style:
adult animation, surreal, philosophical, experimental, black comedy ...
Plot:
illness, dark humor, surrealism, divorced parents, life & death, existentialism, depression, mental health, introspection, self discovery, art, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who doesn't take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he's seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy ...
Style:
anime, touching, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, love and romance, teenage life, youth, broken dream, friend, male female relationship, family relations, school club, dream world, theater, surrealism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Style:
anime, touching, sentimental, emotional, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens
Plot:
tuberculosis, world war two, dream, earthquake, inventions and discoveries, flying, hopes, aviation, biopic, love and romance, engineer, wartime ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1920s, 1940s ...
Place:
japan, germany, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Style:
anime, heartbreaking, sweet, atmospheric, colorful ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
werewolf, childhood, children, parents and children, single mother, wolf, female werewolf, death of father, supernatural, school, family relations, wilderness ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Israel, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Much awarded animated documentary, in which director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on ...
Style:
adult animation, rough, experimental, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
politics, military, mass murder, memory loss, soldier, haunted by the past, guilt, male pubic hair, catastrophe, memory, mission, army ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
lebanon, israel, middle east, palestine, beirut lebanon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the ...
Style:
touching, anime, emotional, melancholic, lyrical ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, children, princess, parents and children, dream, female protagonist, self discovery, japanese woman, family relations, surrealism, melancholy ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, year 2013
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story:
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a Japanese anime television series that premiered on Fuji TV's noitaminA timeslot on July 9, 2009, where it ended its original run on September 17. Directed by Masaki Tachibana and written by Natsuko Takahashi, it is an ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, motivational ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens
Plot:
brother sister relationship, earthquake, disaster, survival, chaos and mayhem, natural disaster, catastrophe, forces of nature, courage, trapped, family bonds, survivor ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Style:
sincere, rough, heartbreaking, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disguise, poverty, prison, religious intolerance, gender disguise, father, tyranny, friendship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, culture, taliban ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Place:
afghanistan, asia
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, Japan, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Style:
anime, historical drama, bleak, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, hiding, diary, fear, wartime, biopic, oppression, persecution, nazi germany, hopes, survival ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
amsterdam, netherlands
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two ...
Style:
anime, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, young heroes, social differences, forceful separation, life turned upside down, society, deportation, village, white supremacy, dancing, post war, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
asia, japan, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she ...
Style:
adult animation, political, black and white, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, revolution, feminist, female protagonist, politics, iraq iran war, self discovery, biopic, childhood, repression, adolescence, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, year 1978 ...
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran iran, france, vienna ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Style:
sad, adult animation, emotional, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
rabbit, journey, violent, friendship, death, blood, animal, mature, animal protagonist, survival, violence, furry ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister ...
Style:
anime, feel good, sweet, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, toddlers, kids, preschool
Plot:
children, friendship, magic, magical, sisters, countryside, young heroes, child protagonist, teaching the ways of the world, sister sister relationship, little girl, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, asia, seattle, tokyo
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, heartbreaking, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, little red riding hood, resistance fighter, dystopia, alternate history, politics, distopia, double agent, neo fascism, resistance, political unrest, dark hero ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan, east asia, poland, tokyo, germany
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style:
anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
rain, shoemaker, youth, overcoming, unlikely couple, age difference, young lovers, teenage life, grownups, relationships, shyness, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Style:
touching, anime, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, childhood, dream, countryside, young girl, loneliness, teenage life, asthma, imaginary friend, orphan, magic realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia, england, tokyo
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Style:
touching, dark fantasy, emotional, psychotronic, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
bullying, childhood, loneliness, cancer, monster, imagination, terminal illness, boy, single mother, courage, teenager, depression ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style:
emotional, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, children in wartime, blind character, coming of age, children, camp, child, muslim, anti war, saddam hussein, survival, orphan ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, iran, maghreb, afghanistan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama. Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 year-old girl, Umi, lives in that house. Every morning she raises a signal flag facing the sea. The flag means “I pray for safe voyages”. A 17 ...
Style:
touching, anime, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, destiny, friendship, teenage life, love and romance, teenage love, happy ending, self discovery, twists and turns, high school life, relationships, heartwarming ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, england
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style:
anime, political, disturbing, adult animation
Plot:
radiation sickness, starvation, virus outbreak, bombing, post apocalyptic, nuclear disaster, nuclear holocaust, post war, nuclear fallout, group, radiation, child abuse ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan
Similarity:
100%
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