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Movies that feel like Hanuman Ansh (2026)

If you loved Hanuman Ansh, the closest films we have are Storm Boy (1977), The White Balloon (1995) and Paper Planes (2014). All three share Hanuman Ansh's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

A grieving boy seeks God to meet his departed mother, and in finding the divine, learns to serve humanity with miracles of love, food and silent blessings, becoming Hanuman Ansh, Neem Karoli Baba.

8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vishal Chaturvediwarmcozycontemplative

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Storm Boy
1977 · dir. Henri Safran
6.9drama · family

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The difference: 49 years apart, and the 1970s show

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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The White Balloon
1995 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 83%7.6drama · family

Contemplative family in both cases

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%6.2comedy · family · drama

Drama built on warmth, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Hanuman Ansh does

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Children of Heaven
1997 · dir. Majid Majidi
🍅 83%8.2drama · family

Both lean on comfort more than on family

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · dir. Lionel Jeffries
6.8family · fantasy

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Hanuman Ansh

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

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The Journey of Natty Gann
1985 · dir. Jeremy Kagan
🍅 91%7adventure · family · drama

Contemplative family, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Hanuman Ansh does

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

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Long Way North
2015 · dir. Rémi Chayé
🍅 98%7.2adventure · animation · drama

Cozy drama, and it commits to that

In 1892 Saint Petersburg, when her explorer grandfather's failure to return from his latest expedition brings dishonour to her aristocratic family, a resilient teenager runs away to follow in his trail in search of his famed ship.

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Still Walking
2008 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 100%7.9drama · family

Both sit in the same contemplative register

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

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English Vinglish
2012 · dir. Gauri Shinde
🍅 83%7.8comedy · drama · family

Both working the same family territory

In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.

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Coyote vs. Acme
2026 · dir. Dave Green
🍅 96%7.6comedy · adventure · family

Family in the same key

The difference: Missing the stillness of Hanuman Ansh

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

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Wonder
2017 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 86%7.9family · drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

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The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 97%7.4drama

Both are drama through and through

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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