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10 Best Movies Like Anima

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

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#1
My Joy

My Joy

2010★ 6.3

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

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.1

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#4
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal

2009★ 6.5

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

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement...

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