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10 Best Movies Like Our Departures

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

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#1
Mirai

Mirai

2018★ 7.1

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

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the bi...

#2
I Wish

I Wish

2011★ 7.3

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

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting mir...

#3
The Railway Children

The Railway Children

1970★ 6.7

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

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mot...

#4
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

2013★ 6.9

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

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on ...

#5
After the Storm

After the Storm

2016★ 7.2

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

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old...

#6
Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

1961★ 6.9

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

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopte...

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