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Movies that feel likeSoul (2020)

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

If you loved Soul, the closest films we have are Arrietty (2010), Whisper of the Heart (1995) and The Red Turtle (2016). All three share Soul's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Long Way North (2015).

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Arrietty
2010 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
🍅 94%★ 7.6fantasy · animation · familyMax

The same two preoccupations: cat, and nostalgic

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Soul

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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Whisper of the Heart
1995 · dir. Yoshifumi Kondo
🍅 96%★ 7.8animation · drama · familyMax

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

The difference: Takes it somewhere less stylish than Soul does

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."

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The Red Turtle
2016 · dir. Michael Dudok de Wit
🍅 93%★ 7.5animation · drama · fantasy

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

The difference: Trades the style of Soul for an angle of its own

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

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Long Way North
2015 · dir. Rémi Chayé
🍅 98%★ 7.2adventure · animation · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Soul does

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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The Wild Robot
2024 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 97%★ 8.2family · animation · science fictionPrime Video

Animation built on warmth, twice over

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

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Almost Famous
2000 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 91%★ 7.9drama · musicParamount+

Stylish drama, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

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The Prince of Egypt
1998 · dir. Steve Hickner
🍅 79%★ 7.3adventure · animation · dramaNetflix

Family with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

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Pinocchio
2019 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.3drama · family · fantasy

A soul learning what it means to be truly alive

The difference: Darker live-action strangeness — grotesque where Soul glows

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

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Coco
2017 · dir. Lee Unkrich
🍅 97%★ 8.4family · animation · musicDisney+

Music, mortality and what makes a life matter

The difference: Family-first fiesta — aimed younger, tugging harder

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

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Boy & the World
2014 · dir. Alê Abreu
🍅 93%★ 7.5animation · fantasy · adventure

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.

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A Christmas Carol
2009 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 52%★ 6.8animation · drama · familyPrime VideoDisney+

A soul shown its own life and given one more chance

The difference: Ghostly Victorian gloom — motion capture chills the warmth

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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The Cat Returns
2002 · dir. Hiroyuki Morita
🍅 88%★ 7.1adventure · fantasy · animationMax

An ordinary life tipped into a whimsical other world

The difference: Featherlight Ghibli lark — charming, but it floats away

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

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