
Movies that feel like The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
If you loved The Castle of Cagliostro, the closest films we have are Fantomas (1964), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and Manitou's Shoe (2001). All three share The Castle of Cagliostro's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and MGM Plus and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Castle of Cagliostro hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: thief

Both land scale and wit at once

The same mix in both: play, then grit
The difference: Sits closer to western than The Castle of Cagliostro does

Epic adventure in both cases

Comedy built on wit, twice over
The difference: None of the scale The Castle of Cagliostro is built on

Animation with a pulse of play, in both cases

One thread runs through both: thief

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Epic adventure, and it commits to that
The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2000s show

Witty comedy in both cases

A 1980s answer to the same itch

From the 1990s, and it lands the same way
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one
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