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Movies that feel like Weathering with You (2019)

If you loved Weathering with You, the closest films we have are Your Name. (2016), A Whisker Away (2020) and The Garden of Words (2013). All three share Weathering with You's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Makoto Shinkai

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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A Whisker Away
2020 Β· dir. Tomotaka Shibayama
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.7animation Β· drama Β· romance

Two things both keep coming back to: magic and slice of life

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

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The Garden of Words
2013 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
β˜… 7.4animation Β· drama Β· romance

Makoto Shinkai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the dream logic Weathering with You is built on

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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5 Centimeters per Second
2007 Β· dir. Makoto Shinkai
β˜… 7.4animation Β· romance Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: slice of life

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Weathering with You

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

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Beauty and the Beast
2014 Β· dir. Christophe Gans
πŸ… 41%β˜… 6.4fantasy Β· romance

Common ground: surrealism

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.

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Beautiful Creatures
2013 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.1fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: magic

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

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

Both are built on the same subject: japan

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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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 Β· dir. Jim Jarmusch
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance Β· fantasy

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

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Asako I & II
2018 Β· dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Both rooted in Tokyo

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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Before Midnight
2013 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9romance Β· drama

Both land romance and tenderness at once

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

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Sapphire Blue
2014 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 6.1fantasy Β· romance Β· drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.

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Ruby Red
2013 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 6fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

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