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Movies that feel like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

If you loved The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, the closest films we have are Melancholia (2011), Summer Wars (2009) and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997). All three share The Girl Who Leapt Through Time's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Criterion Channel and Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Mamoru Hosodadreamlikewhimsicalcontemplativecerebralromantic
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Melancholia
2011 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1drama Β· science fiction

Surrealism sits at the heart of each

The difference: Lighter on whimsy

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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Summer Wars
2009 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.4animation Β· science fiction

Both are Mamoru Hosoda films, and they rhyme

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancΓ©. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
1997 Β· dir. Kazuya Tsurumaki
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.1animation Β· science fiction Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: anime

The difference: Leans further into action

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

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Mr. Nobody
2009 Β· dir. Jaco Van Dormael
πŸ… 64%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· drama Β· romance

Both built around time travel

The difference: Played as romance first

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 Β· dir. Michel Gondry
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.3science fiction Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep circling back to love

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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Your Name.
2016 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.4animation Β· romance Β· drama

High school runs into school in each of them

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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Millennium Actress
2002 Β· dir. Satoshi Kon
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8animation Β· drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: dream logic, then whimsy

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.

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After Life
1999 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6fantasy Β· drama

Teenage girl is the engine of both

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

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About Time
2013 Β· dir. Richard Curtis
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance Β· fantasy

Both built around time-manipulation

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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Paprika
2006 Β· dir. Satoshi Kon
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7animation Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Anime is the engine of both

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

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Ocean Waves
1993 Β· dir. Tomomi Mochizuki
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.6animation Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep circling back to surrealism

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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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

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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