
Movies that feel likeBambi (1942)
If you loved Bambi, the closest films we have are The Lion King (1994), Long Way North (2015) and The Fox and the Hound (1981). All three share Bambi's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kes (1970).
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If Bambi hit the spot, these will too

Common ground in both: grief and growing up
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both are built on the same subject: growing up
The difference: Trades the melancholy of Bambi for an angle of its own

Contemplative and warm in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than Bambi does

Both land comfort and melancholy at once
The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Bambi does

The same hand behind both of them: David Hand

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Wistful animation, and it commits to that

One thread runs through both: grief
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Family with a pulse of warmth, in both cases


Wistful animation in both cases

Common ground: forest
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