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Movies that feel like Flee (2021)

If you loved Flee, the closest films we have are Nuts! (2016), The Painting (2011) and A Cat in Paris (2010). All three share Flee's whimsical feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussenwhimsical

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Nuts!
2016 · dir. Penny Lane
🍅 94%7.1documentary · animation

Both lean on whimsy more than on documentary

The true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a small-town Kansas doctor who discovers in 1917 that he can cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger-than-fiction tale. With the balls of a P.T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, Nuts! certainly earns its title.

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The Painting
2011 · dir. Jean-François Laguionie
🍅 82%7.3fantasy · animation

Animation with a pulse of whimsy, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Flee does

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

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A Cat in Paris
2010 · dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli
🍅 83%6.9animation · comedy

Whimsical animation in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Flee does

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

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Ronal the Barbarian
2011 · dir. Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen
6.5animation · adventure · fantasy

The animation is handled with the same confidence

Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world.

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Secret Magic Control Agency
2021 · dir. Alexey Tsitsilin
6.2animation · comedy · fantasy

Animation in the same key

The Secret Magic Control Agency sends its two best agents, Hansel and Gretel, to fight against the witch of the Gingerbread House.

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Checkered Ninja
2018 · dir. Thorbjørn Christoffersen
7.1animation · comedy · adventure

Both working the same animation territory

A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

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Vernon, Florida
1981 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 100%7documentary

Documentary approached the same way

The difference: 40 years apart, and the 1980s show

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

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White Snake
2019 · dir. Amp Wong
🍅 70%7romance · animation · fantasy

The same animation instincts

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from a nearby village. As they set off an a journey to discover her real identity, the pair develop feelings for each other.

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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
2017 · dir. Patrick Imbert
🍅 97%7.4family · animation · comedy

Both know what they want from animation

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.

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Ne Zha
2019 · dir. Jiao Zi
🍅 88%7.3animation · fantasy · adventure

Animation of the same temperament

A young boy is born as the reincarnation of a demonic power, into a society that hates and fears him. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, Nezha must choose between good and evil to see if he can change his fate.

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Steamboat Willie
1928 · dir. Walt Disney
🍅 100%7.4animation · comedy

Both play animation straight

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

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Grey Gardens
1976 · dir. Muffie Meyer
🍅 95%7.5documentary

Cut from the same documentary cloth

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

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