Movies like After School Midnighters

If you like "After School Midnighters" you are looking for anime, humorous and surreal movies about / with children, school, supernatural, imaginary, on the run, motorcycle chase and skeleton themes of Animation, Comedy and Family genre shot in Japan.
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After School Midnighters (2012)
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After School Midnighters (2012)
Original name: 放課後ミッドナイターズ
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Houkago Midnighters is about a human anatomical model that comes to life at midnight in a school.
Style: anime, humorous, surreal, stylized, semi serious, computer animated, psychedelic, offbeat
Plot: children, school, supernatural, imaginary, on the run, motorcycle chase, skeleton, trippy, chases and races, motorcycle, trio, group of children, game, human skeleton, midnight, computer animation
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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Most similar movies to After School Midnighters

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, humorous, semi serious and stylized films with plots about supernatural, imaginary, friendship, escapades, youth, danger and school mostly in Animation, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like After School Midnighters: Hells (2008), Pom Poko (1994), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Needless (2009), A Letter to Momo (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hells (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Amagane Rinne had an accident and died while hurrying to school. She suddenly arrived in an awkward school... in Hell, filled with demons. While she is struggling and wishing to go back to the world whence she came from, she makes friends with her ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: adam and eve, dead, teenage life, supernatural, escapades, danger, dark humor, school, underworld, demon, death, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever (1986)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The basic plot is centered on the great cherry tree Tarōzakura and what happens after it is cut down during the making of a movie, Lum loses her horns-and her powers! Thus begins the strangest and most lyrical of the Urusei Yatsura movies. The ...
Style: anime, manga, slapstick, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: superhero, teenage life, friendship, school, imaginary, gang, escapades, danger, heroes, demolished city, jet plane, metaphysics ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Pom Poko (1994)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ...
Style: anime, manga, humorous, stylized, allegory ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: environment, environmental, ecology, werewolf, furry, social commentary, transformation, forest, supernatural, anarchist, food, lycanthropy ...
Time: year 1994, near future, 60s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Genre: Animation, 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, atmospheric, sweet, touching ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: children, friendship, magical, magic, countryside, sisters, child protagonist, parents and children, young heroes, sister sister relationship, hospital, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Needless (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Needless is an action comedy science fiction manga and anime series by Kami Imai. Serialized in Shueisha's seinen magazine Ultra Jump beginning in 2004, an anime adaptation by Madhouse began airing on July 2, 2009.
Style: anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: imaginary, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, danger, apocalypse, dystopian future, heroes, supernatural ability, chaos, supernatural power, escapades, friends ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Date a Live Movie: Mayuri Judgement (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The movie adaptation announced at the end of the final episode of Date A Live II.
Style: anime, captivating, stylized, semi serious, humorous
Plot: heroic mission, ghost, imaginary, supernatural, young heroes, hopes, friendship, another dimension, supernatural romance, youth, save the world, danger ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 ⇓
85%
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A giant whale appears and flies above Sakura New Town. With the whale’s sound of crying, some changes occur to Kenta Amano and Yokai.
Style: anime, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: alternate reality, transformation, changing lives, children, supernatural, friends, friendship, video game, youkai, fight, media, whale
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
85%
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Gakuen Alice (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Best friends Mikan and Hotaru are separated when Hotaru is scouted by a special school called "Alice Academy." Mikan determines to enroll too but Alice Academy is a mysterious place.
Style: anime, semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: friendship, best friend, heroes, young heroes, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, youth, imaginary, school, rescue, magic ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Negima! (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Vampires, robots, sorcery… And that’s all before Gym Class! Welcome to Mahora Academy, an all-girls school where the impossible and the enchanting are a part of the curriculum. It’s the start of the new school year and emotions run rampant as ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: supernatural, youth, power relations, wizards and magicians, harem, magic, slice of life, imaginary, men hatred, boarding school life, boarding school, high school life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
Story: In Enchanted Parade, Akko, Lotte and Sucy, having gotten in trouble yet again, are forced to team up with three other troublemakers; Amanda O'Neill, Constance Braunschweig Albrechtsburger and Jasmineka Antonenko, and must make an annual witch ...
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, light, stylized ...
Plot: magic, witch, magic wand, female protagonist, friendship, supernatural, female friendship, city life, entity, urban legend, magical girl, beast ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya: The Movie - Oath Under Snow (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Shirou Emiya and his adoptive father Kiritsugu travel to Fuyuki in order to investigate the Sakatsuki family, who are rumored to be harboring a child with powerful magic abilities.
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: travel, magical girl, magical, bigger dreams, fight, supernatural, society, heroine, save the world, friendship, love and romance, school
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles - Animal Adventure (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catches a big bird Moa, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect extinct the animal, Nobita and Doramon go to Beremon Island which is protected by a golden beetle named Herakles. They meet a ...
Style: anime, semi serious, futuristic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: doraemon, talking animal, imaginary, robot, pets, clumsiness, friendship, time travel, cartoon mouse, flying robot, family relations, parents and children ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Advanced placement into a school of higher grade proof-reading is determined by the results of the Promotion Test strictly for class type. Ranging from A class with the best facilities anyone can offer all the way down to F Class which is composed ...
Style: anime, seinen, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Plot: high school life, love triangle, teachers and students, society, youth, individuality, high school, school, supernatural, swordplay, superpower, idiot ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Wool 100% (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl knitting a red sweater in their house. Each time the girl finishes her dress, she promptly unravels it ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, anime ...
Plot: surrealism, life turned upside down, elderly, obsession, uninvited guest, social relations, sister sister relationship, mysterious character, accordion, knitting, dollhouse, young
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Grandma and Her Ghosts (1998)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A 5 year old kid moves to live with his grandma in a small town at Taiwan. Soon after, he discovers that her grandma is not only a vendor, but also she is good at catching spectres. One day, she comes across that her grandson has mistakenly releases ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, feel good, humorous, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ghost, supernatural, good versus evil, rivalry, village, surrealism, grandmother grandson relationship, family relations, social relations, village life, afterlife
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: taiwan, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The film revolves around a mysterious girl named Éclair who appears before Fairy Tail, the world's most notorious wizard's guild. She lost all of her memories, except for the imperative that she must deliver two Phoenix Stones somewhere. ...
Style: anime, manga, sexy, fairy tale, humorous ...
Plot: good versus evil, imaginary, rivalry, danger, last wish, wizards and magicians, fairy, escapades, imaginary kingdom, intrigue, curses spells and rituals, memory loss ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Book Girl (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Konoha Inoue and Tōko Amano, the Literary Girl, as she calls herself, are the sole members of their high school literature club. Their lives will be altered when Konoha's past, forgotten for a long time, reaches the present, involving them in ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shoujo
Plot: high school friends, supernatural being, supernatural power, satire, schoolgirl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, school club, writers, writer's life, love hate relationship, boy girl relationship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Humanity Has Declined (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: It has been several centuries since human population has declined. Food has become harder to find and what little sources the humans have are considered highly valuable. The most prosperous species on the Earth are "Fairies", 10 cm tall ...
Style: anime, humorous, exciting, surreal, fairy tale ...
Plot: magical creature, satire, save the planet, supernatural, society, save the world, escapades, heroes, negotiator, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dark humor ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Idiots and Angels (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he ...
Style: surreal, adult animation, humorous, semi serious, psychedelic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, moral dilemma, disorder, dark humor, supernatural, human nature, supernatural ability, trippy, angel, idiot, recovery, existential crisis ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Gabriel DropOut (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Gabriel White graduated at the top of the class at angel school and attends a human school on earth in pursuit of knowledge, but then gets engrossed in a web game and decides its too much trouble to go anywhere. (from manga)
Style: anime, humorous, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: friendship, slacker, angel, magic, demon, supernatural, school, high school life, clumsy, rescue, teenager, clumsiness ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Kanon (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all knowledge of ever visiting has vanished. He tries to adjust to the vaguely familiar surroundings, but the gaps in his memory haunt him as time grows short. The pieces of the ...
Style: anime, depressing, stylized, offbeat, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, memory loss, amnesia, dating, magical, snow, tragedy, love and romance, youth, teenager, winter ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Blood Lad (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Staz is a vampire from the surreal "Demon World", and Fuyumi, an ordinary girl, accidentally wanders into the Demon World through a portal. Subsequently after meeting each other, Fuyumi is killed by a carnivorous plant and turned into a ...
Style: anime, entertaining, humorous, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, vampire, demon, danger, ghost, battles, curses spells and rituals, magic, love and romance, king, beast, fantasy world ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little ...
Style: anime, manga, aesthetic, light hearted, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, urban setting, international relations, coming of age, parenting, teenager, surrealism, grandmother, middle class, eccentric family, family life ...
Time: year 1999
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 759
Flying Witch (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In the witches' tradition, when a practitioner turns 15, they must become independent and leave their home to study witchcraft. Makoto Kowata is one such apprentice witch who leaves her parents' home in Yokohama in pursuit of knowledge and ...
Style: anime, stylized, captivating, exciting, semi serious ...
Plot: countryside, young girl, society, everyday life, siblings relations, secret identity, family relations, heartwarming, agriculture, magic realism, slice of life, family life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The True Story of Puss 'n Boots (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A free adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Puss'n Boots, "The True Story of Puss'n Boots" is a story for young and old for the first time on cinema screens.
Style: feel good, stylized, not serious, humorous, mockbuster ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: escapades, imaginary, fall in love, animal life, wizards and magicians, disorder, imaginary kingdom, surrealism, cartoon cat, nothing goes right, royal family, cat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Ivan the Incredible (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Poor Ivan Olsen is plagued by problems bullied at school and constantly pursued by a gang whose greatest pleasure is filling his pants with water. And when Ivan gets home, his dad doesn't have much sympathy for him either because he is crazy ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, anime ...
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: imaginary, disorder, prank, wish come true, youth, life turned upside down, rivalry, parents and children, social misfits, ambition, coming of age, underdog ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: One peaceful day on Earth, two remnants of Frieza's army named Sorbet and Tagoma arrive searching for the Dragon Balls with the aim of reviving Frieza. They succeed, and Frieza subsequently seeks revenge on the Saiyans.
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens, adult
Plot: martial arts, dragon ball, anti hero, violent, danger, rivalry, master warrior, heroes, supernatural, supernatural ability, escapades, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Film that mixes live action and animation, from Hui Buh, a character created in 1969 by Eberhard Alexander-Burgh author and star of a radio series and book series popular in the 70s. Hui Buh takes over 500 years in the castle of Burgeck as ...
Style: humorous, feel good, exciting, semi serious, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: ghost, supernatural, cons and scams, dishonesty, down on your luck, nothing goes right, reluctant partners, unlikely partners, disorder, goofy hero, monkey, bully ...
Time: year 2006, middle ages
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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