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Movies that feel like Fantastic Planet (1973)

If you loved Fantastic Planet, the closest films we have are WALL·E (2008), Akira (1988) and Ghost in the Shell (1995). All three share Fantastic Planet's whimsical and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. René Lalouxwhimsicalcerebralbleakawedreamlike

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WALL·E
2008 · dir. Andrew Stanton
🍅 95%8.4animation · family · science fiction

Dystopia and space travel, at the center of both

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Fantastic Planet

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.

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Akira
1988 · dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
🍅 91%8animation · science fiction · action

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: None of the awe that defines Fantastic Planet

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

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Ghost in the Shell
1995 · dir. Mamoru Oshii
🍅 95%7.9action · animation · science fiction

The same mix in both: whimsy, then ideas

The difference: Leans action where Fantastic Planet does not

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%7.4animation · science fiction

Adult animation is the engine of both

The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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Paprika
2006 · dir. Satoshi Kon
🍅 87%7.7animation · science fiction · thriller

Both keep circling back to adult animation

The difference: Plays it as thriller more than Fantastic Planet does

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

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🍅 92%8.1animation · science fiction · drama

Bleak where it counts, dreamlike underneath

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

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Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might
1990 · dir. Daisuke Nishio
6.8action · animation · science fiction

Animation built on awe, twice over

Goku and friends must stop a band of space pirates from consuming fruit from the Tree of Might before it's destructive powers drain Earth's energy.

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Gattaca
1997 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 82%7.7science fiction · drama

Space travel sits at the heart of each

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

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Alien
1979 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 93%8.5horror · science fiction

Both trade on ideas more than on being science fiction

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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Warriors of the Wind
1984 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 87%8adventure · animation · fantasy

Whimsical animation in both cases

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.

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Total Recall
1990 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 80%7.5action · adventure · science fiction

Bleak science fiction, and it commits to that

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

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Silent Running
1972 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 71%6.6adventure · science fiction · drama

Science fiction with a pulse of awe, in both cases

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.

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