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10 Best Movies Like A Monster Calls

If you loved A Monster Calls, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play ru...

#2
The Legend of Ochi

The Legend of Ochi

2025★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi ha...

#3
Ink

Ink

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, th...

#4
Lorenzo's Oil

Lorenzo's Oil

1992★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and ta...

#5
Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge to Terabithia

2007★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differen...

#6
Northfork

Northfork

2003★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Monster Calls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley ...

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