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Movies that feel like Song of the Sea (2014)

If you loved Song of the Sea, the closest films we have are The Secret of Kells (2009), Coraline (2009) and Ponyo (2008). All three share Song of the Sea'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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tomm Moorewarmcozywhimsicaldreamlike

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The Secret of Kells
2009 · dir. Tomm Moore
🍅 90%7.5animation · family · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Tomm Moore

Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest that will take him beyond the abbey walls and into the enchanted forest where dangerous mythical creatures hide. Will Brendan succeed in his quest?

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Coraline
2009 · dir. Henry Selick
🍅 91%7.8animation · family · fantasy

Warm and cozy in the same breath

Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.

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Ponyo
2008 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 91%7.6animation · fantasy · family

Both built around fairy tale

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

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Spirited Away
2001 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 96%8.6animation · family · fantasy

Both land whimsy and dream logic at once

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 · dir. Henry Selick
🍅 95%7.9fantasy · animation · family

Family built on warmth, twice over

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

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My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 94%8.1fantasy · animation · family

Cozy animation, and it commits to that

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 · dir. David Hand
7.6fantasy · animation · family

Fantasy with a pulse of whimsy, in both cases

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

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Pinocchio
1940 · dir. Hamilton Luske
🍅 100%7.5animation · family · fantasy

Dreamlike family in both cases

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish.

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The Sword in the Stone
1963 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 65%7.1animation · family · fantasy

Both trade on warmth more than on being animation

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

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The Secret World of Arrietty
2010 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
🍅 94%7.6fantasy · animation · family

Cozy fantasy in both cases

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

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Frozen
2013 · dir. Jennifer Lee
🍅 89%7.4animation · family · adventure

Whimsical family in both cases

The difference: Leans adventure where Song of the Sea does not

Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.

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How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 99%8.1fantasy · adventure · animation

Both trade on dream logic more than on being animation

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

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