
10 Best Movies Like This Boy Caught a Merman
If you loved This Boy Caught a Merman, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Weathering with You
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Fantasy & Animation & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 weath...

Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Fantasy & Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Co...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, ...

Joker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

Oppenheimer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Boy Caught a Merman for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the...