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Movies that feel like Millennium Actress (2002)

If you loved Millennium Actress, the closest films we have are Your Name. (2016), Only Yesterday (1991) and Ocean Waves (1993). All three share Millennium Actress's whimsical and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Satoshi Konwhimsicalcontemplativeromantictenderdreamlike

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Your Name.
2016 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
🍅 98%8.4animation · romance · drama

The same mix in both: whimsy, then stillness

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

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Only Yesterday
1991 · dir. Isao Takahata
🍅 100%7.6animation · drama · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Millennium Actress

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

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Ocean Waves
1993 · dir. Tomomi Mochizuki
🍅 89%6.6animation · drama · romance

Animation with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Plays it as tv movie more than Millennium Actress does

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...

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Revolutionary Road
2008 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%7.3drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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Before Midnight
2013 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 98%7.9romance · drama

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 72%7.8drama · fantasy · romance

Tender drama in both cases

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

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The Wind Rises
2013 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 88%7.8animation · drama · history

Both circle japan and earthquake

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

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Corpse Bride
2005 · dir. Mike Johnson
🍅 85%7.4romance · fantasy · animation

Both trade on whimsy more than on being animation

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

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About Time
2013 · dir. Richard Curtis
🍅 70%7.8drama · romance · fantasy

Romance with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

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Meet Joe Black
1998 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 48%7.2fantasy · drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?

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A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016 · dir. Naoko Yamada
8.2animation · drama · romance

Adult animation is the engine of both

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

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The Shape of Water
2017 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 92%7.3drama · fantasy · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

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