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Movies that feel likeFinding Neverland (2004)

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

If you loved Finding Neverland, the closest films we have are After Life (1999), The Tree of Life (2011) and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010). All three share Finding Neverland's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Russian Ark (2002).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Marc Forstercontemplativedreamlike
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After Life
1999 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 88%★ 7.6fantasy · drama

Contemplative and dreamlike in the same breath

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

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The Tree of Life
2011 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 86%★ 6.8drama · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: parents and children

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
🍅 90%★ 6.7drama · fantasy

Contemplative drama in both cases

Suffering from a kidney disease and sure of his death, Uncle Boonmee assembles his relatives in the countryside. He reminisces about his past lives and plans to visit a place before dying.

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The Master and Margarita
2024 · dir. Michael Lockshin
★ 7.1fantasy · drama

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

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The Seventh Seal
1957 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 93%★ 8.1fantasy · dramaMax

Drama built on stillness, twice over

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

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Wild Strawberries
1957 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 94%★ 8.1dramaMax

Common ground: faith

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
2013 · dir. Isao Takahata
🍅 100%★ 8animation · drama · fantasyMax

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Finding Neverland does

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 enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

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Tokyo Story
1953 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
🍅 100%★ 8.1dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: parents and children

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

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Persona
1966 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 91%★ 8dramaMax

Drama of the same temperament

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

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Russian Ark
2002 · dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
🍅 89%★ 7.2drama · fantasy · history

The same fantasy instincts

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

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Immortals
2011 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 50%★ 6fantasy · action · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.

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Horns
2013 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 41%★ 6.4drama · fantasy · thrillerPrime Video

Both working the same fantasy territory

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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