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Movies that feel like The Painting (2011)

If you loved The Painting, the closest films we have are Tales from Earthsea (2006), Porco Rosso (1992) and Corpse Bride (2005). All three share The Painting's dreamlike and whimsical feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-François Laguioniedreamlikewhimsical

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Tales from Earthsea
2006 · dir. Goro Miyazaki
6.3animation · fantasy · adventure

The same mix in both: dream logic, then whimsy

The difference: Leans adventure where The Painting does not

As crops dwindle and dragons reappear, mankind stands on the verge of total chaos. Lord Archmage Sparrowhawk, a powerful wizard, and Arren, a troubled young prince, search for the force behind this mysterious imbalance that threatens to destroy the land of Earthsea.

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Porco Rosso
1992 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 96%7.7animation · adventure · fantasy

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.

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Corpse Bride
2005 · dir. Mike Johnson
🍅 85%7.4romance · fantasy · animation

Animation with a pulse of whimsy, in both cases

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

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

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

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 trade on whimsy more than on being animation

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

The same fantasy instincts

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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Song of the Sea
2014 · dir. Tomm Moore
🍅 99%8family · animation · fantasy

Animation approached the same way

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.

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

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

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

Both are animation through and through

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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Princess Mononoke
1997 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 93%8.3adventure · fantasy · animation

Fantasy approached the same way

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

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

The same animation instincts

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

The same fantasy instincts

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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