Movies like Air: The Motion Picture

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Air: The Motion Picture (2005)
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Air: The Motion Picture (2005)
Original name: 劇場版 AIR
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
Style: anime, sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, magic, summer, imaginary, youth, tragic love, teenage life, impossible love, social relations, family relations, parents and children, high school life, small town, haunted by the past, small town life, unfulfillment, video game, love and romance, strong female presence, coming of age, bittersweet, sad ending, adoptive mother, fall in love, curse ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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Most similar movies to Air: The Motion Picture

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, touching, serious and stylized films with plots about youth, teenage life, coming of age, love and romance, high school, high school life and friendship mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Air: The Motion Picture: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018), Air (2005), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011), Clannad: After Story (2008), Ocean Waves (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A story of encounters and partings interwoven between people; this is a human drama with feelings that touch one's heart gradually, which everyone has experienced at least once.
Style: anime, touching, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, teenager, orphan, love, baby, female protagonist, friendship, military, adoption, mother son relationship ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." ...
Style: anime, sincere, disturbing, romantic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragedy, friendship, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, love story, teenage boy, romantic relationship, bucket list, fall in love, love and romance, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 1K
Air (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Yukito Kunisaki is on a journey in search of the Winged Maiden who was bound to the sky centuries ago, after hearing an old childhood tale from his mother. As Yukito shows his puppet show to people in an attempt to make some money, he finds himself ...
Style: anime, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, teenage love, youth, supernatural ability, reincarnation, teenage life, impossible love, imaginary, social relations, curses spells and rituals, slice of life, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of ...
Style: anime, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghost, unrequited love, friendship, supernatural, death of friend, haunted by the past, tragedy, friends, teenage life, hopes, imaginary, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster ...
Style: anime, touching, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dealing with death, parallel world, imaginary, grief, radio, teenage life, escape attempt, rescue, life & death, spirit, supernatural, myth ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A year has passed since Menma's ghostly return to the Super Peace Busters. Although the time they spent together during that summer was short, the five members reminisce about what happened as they each write a letter to their lost friend.
Style: anime, psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, supernatural, unrequited love, ghost, love triangle, teenage love, high school life, fall in love, teenage life, haunted by the past, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)
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, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, youth, high school, love and romance, high school life, love, death of mother, student, father son relationship, death, death of wife ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Clannad: After Story (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A sequel to the anime based on the Key Clannad franchise. After Story is a path that opens in the original visual novel after all the other paths have been opened. Life continues on for Tomoya. A few months have passed since he confessed his love to ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: slice of life, dream come true, love and romance, youth, terminal illness, teenage love, life is a bitch, coming of age, parenthood, mature, zen, tragedy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Ocean Waves (1993)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly ...
Style: anime, realistic, adult animation, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: friendship, love triangle, unspoken love, teenage love, love and romance, youth, friends, thoughtful, coming of age, daily life, divorce, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Say "I love you" (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Friends suck, and trusting someone is just setting yourself up. That's the lesson Mei Tachibana learned after her heart was ripped out and only a shell was left where a girl used to be. But unlike so many, she found an easy solution: ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, friendship, first love, teenage love, troubled past, friends, fall in love, school, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Rikka Takanashi Revision (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summary of the first season of the show, as seen from Rikka's perspective with new elements.
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, school, everyday life, teenage life, fall in love, coming of age, supernatural ability, imaginary, supernatural, youth, darkness, eye patch ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Irregular at Magic High School (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: In a world where magic is not a fairy tale but has existed for one hundred years siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba prepare to begin their studies at the elite Private Magic University Affiliated High School (Magic High School for short). Entering on ...
Style: anime, serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural ability, social relations, siblings relations, youth, magic, high school life, teenage life, imaginary, family relations, supernatural, badass, misogynist ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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 somehow changing, causing the ...
Style: anime, sincere, semi serious, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: curses spells and rituals, investigation, danger, imaginary, small town, military, imaginary kingdom, master warrior, mysterious planet, video game, violent content, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Mai Mai Miracle (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1955 in western Japan, nine-year-old Shinko knows she comes from a family that dates back to over a thousand years. This long genealogy and stories about it feed her daydreams: she invents an imaginary friendship with a young girl in the Japan of ...
Style: anime, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, imaginary character, small town, youth, daydreamer, legends and myths, grownups, coming of age, teenager, children, family relations ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Ef: A Tale Of Memories & Melodies (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: On Christmas Eve, Hiro Hirono meets a girl named Miyako Miyamura as she chases a purse snatcher. Hiro later finds out that Miyako also goes to the same school as he does and they start hanging out together. This makes Hiro's childhood friend, ...
Style: anime, stylized, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: diary, love triangle, teenage love, high school life, teenage life, lovers reunited, love and romance, youth, follow your dream, fall in love, first sex, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, 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: anime, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, destiny, teenage life, fighting the system, love and romance, self discovery, teenage love, longing, high school life, twists and turns, happy ending ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1963
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Kimikiss: Pure Rouge (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kouichi Sanada and Kazuki Aihara's childhood friend Mao Mizusawa has returned after living in France for a couple of years. Kouichi is surprised to learn that, since her parents are remaining overseas for the time being, his mother has agreed ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, anime, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, social relations, love and romance, family relations, couples, high school, teenage love, youth, hopes, friends, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Someday's Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Someday's Dreamers is a manga written by Norie Yamada and illustrated by Kumichi Yoshizuki. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Dragon magazine from May 2002 to January 2003 and was later collected in two bound volumes. In 2006, ...
Style: anime, stylized, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, teenage love, wizards and magicians, love and romance, supernatural romance, apprentice, boarding school, youth, slice of life, wizard, magic, city life ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Aishiteruze Baby (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Aishiteruze Baby is a shōjo romance manga by Yoko Maki. It was serialized by Shueisha in Ribon from April 2002 and January 2005 and collected in seven bound volumes. It was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series produced by TMS ...
Style: anime, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, opposites attract, teenage love, parenting, social relations, family relations, teenage life, family life, youth, love and romance, eccentric family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Around June (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father, meets a penniless illegal immigrant, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, human spirit, self discovery, love affair, immigrant, fall in love, young lovers, love and romance, youth, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.1
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Sukisho (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Hashiba has an accident and has lost all of his memories. When Fujimori comes to his school as his new roommate, He tells Hashiba that he is called Ran. He and Hashiba both have a split personality which they developed in their youth.
Style: anime, yaoi, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: memory loss, lgbt, youth, high school life, social relations, gender, young lovers, teenage life, young love, fall in love, friendship, everyday life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Fate/stay night (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by the sorcerer Kiritsugu Emiya. Shirou is drawn into the Holy Grail War summons a female "Servant" known as Saber to protect him and obtain the Holy Grail.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural ability, healing power, supernatural, youth, self discovery, danger, good versus evil, imaginary, escapades, rivalry, back from the dead, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Letter to Momo (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Clinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, young Momo moves with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Upon their arrival, she begins to explore her new habitat, meeting local children ...
Style: anime, touching, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: supernatural, ghost, island, imaginary character, life turned upside down, self discovery, starting over, disorder, parents and children, coping, youth, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Anthem of the Heart (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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?
Style: anime, sincere, touching, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, school, mute, healing, love and romance, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, musical performance, singing, daydreamer, high school, japanese high school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.8
 10K
Clannad (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between the two until ...
Style: anime, realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: high school, fall in love, friendship, high school life, ambition, teenage life, loner, dream come true, wish come true, slice of life, basketball, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
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, atmospheric, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, princess, friendship, children, parents and children, dream, self discovery, female protagonist, japanese woman, family relations, surrealism, melancholy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2013
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Maburaho (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: High school student Kazuki Shikimori comes from a line of powerful magicians with extraordinary DNA and he attends the most prestigious school for wizards in all of Japan. It would seem that life is good for Kazuki. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: supernatural, teenage love, supernatural ability, chosen one, teenage life, danger, wizards and magicians, love triangle, curses spells and rituals, youth, high school, imaginary ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: All of the Clow Cards have been captured, and Sakura Kinomoto, the new Master of the Cards, is preparing to play the lead in the play for the town festival. However, a new evil force is causing mysterious events all over Tomoeda, including the ...
Style: anime, shoujo
Audience: kids
Plot: elementary school, videotaping, magical girl, violence against women, confession, magic, card playing, summer, fall in love, battles, amusement park, young love ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.4
 7K
Colorful (2010)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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 suicide. Watched over by a ...
Style: anime, serious, manga, psychological, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, suicidal, reincarnation, high school life, dealing with death, supernatural, one more chance, memory loss, afterlife, everyday life, parents and children, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Calls the Stars (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the story, the seasons have changed and it will soon be the second spring. Tatsuya and Miyuki have finished their first year at First Magic High School and are on their spring break. The two go to their villa on the Ogasawara Island archipelago. ...
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, magic, siblings relations, high school life, supernatural ability, wizards and magicians, family relations, social relations, imaginary, leader, mysterious stranger, wish fulfillment ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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