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10 Best Movies Like Paprika

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

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#1
Waking Life

Waking Life

2001★ 7.5

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

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussio...

#2
Wicked City

Wicked City

1987★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paprika for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A peace treaty between the Earth and the Black World, a parallel universe of demons, is coming to an end. Two cops, Taki, a human male, and Maki, a female demon, are assigned to pr...

#3
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight

Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight

2019★ 8.3

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

Second compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 9-13. Riko and Reg descend to the third and fourth layer where Riko has her first experience of the Curse....

#4
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

1997★ 8.3

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

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of h...

#5
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel

The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel

2013★ 7.3

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

A side story of the original Kara no Kyōkai - the Garden of sinners movie series divided into 2 parts. In the first part, Shizune Seo, who finds her life too predictable due to her...

#6
Gantz

Gantz

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paprika for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth....

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