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Movies that feel likeThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern guardian, the Judge of Paris Claude Frollo. His first venture into the city leads him to Esmeralda, a fearless Romani woman whose defiance of Frollo's tyranny draws her—and Quasimodo—into his dangerous obsession.

If you loved The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the closest films we have are Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Tony Takitani (2004) and The White Balloon (1995). Most of the picks below share The Hunchback of Notre Dame's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Crumb (1995).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gary Trousdalecontemplativewarmcozyobsessive
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001 · dir. Gary Trousdale
🍅 48%★ 6.9animation · family · adventureDisney+

Both are Gary Trousdale's work, and they rhyme

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

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Tony Takitani
2004 · dir. Jun Ichikawa
🍅 88%★ 7.2drama

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

The difference: Lighter on warmth

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

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The White Balloon
1995 · dir. Jafar Panahi
🍅 83%★ 7.6drama · family

Contemplative and warm in the same breath

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

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Children of Heaven
1997 · dir. Majid Majidi
🍅 83%★ 8.2drama · family

Cozy drama in both cases

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

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Crumb
1995 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 95%★ 8documentary

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

The difference: Leans further into documentary

This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.

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When Marnie Was There
2014 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
🍅 92%★ 7.6animation · drama · familyMax

Both lean on stillness more than on animation

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

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Storm Boy
1977 · dir. Henri Safran
★ 6.9drama · family

Family built on warmth, twice over

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

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Dinosaur
2000 · dir. Eric Leighton
🍅 65%★ 6.4adventure · animation · dramaDisney+

One thread runs through both: villain

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 77%★ 6.9drama

Obsessive drama, and it commits to that

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

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The Secret Garden
1993 · dir. Agnieszka Holland
🍅 89%★ 7.3drama · family · fantasy

Family with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

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A Little Princess
1995 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · family · fantasy

Same instincts, a year apart

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.

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Wonder
2017 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 86%★ 7.9family · dramaRent or buy

Both lean on warmth more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

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