Movies like Arrietty (2010)

Name: Arrietty
Released: 2010

10 films to watch after Arrietty, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

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Spirited Away (2001)

Fit 81%

Shares Animation, Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
2

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Fit 76%

Shares Animation, Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
3

Mary and The Witch's Flower (2017)

Fit 75%

Shares Animation, Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.
4

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Fit 69%

Shares Fantasy and Animation with Arrietty.

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
5

Epic (2013)

Fit 59%

Shares Animation, Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
6

Warriors of the Wind (1984)

Fit 58%

Shares Animation and Fantasy with Arrietty.

After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
7

Ghost Cat Anzu (2024)

Fit 58%

Shares Animation, Fantasy and Family with Arrietty.

Precocious tween Karin finds herself abandoned by her father in rural Japan. Living in a temple with her grandfather, she meets Anzu, a giant "ghost cat" and notorious layabout tasked with looking after her. Distrustful of her new guardian, Karin sabotages Anzu's odd jobs for the townsfolk and befriends the eccentric local forest spirits. In an effort to win Karin over, Anzu accidentally makes a deal with the devil, and all Hell breaks loose.
8

The Legend of Ochi (2025)

Fit 54%

Shares Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

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 has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
9

Finding Nemo (2003)

Fit 53%

Shares Animation and Family with Arrietty.

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
10

Welcome to Smelliville (2021)

Fit 42%

Shares Animation, Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

The Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom, the family dragon, crash-lands on the run-down rubbish tip of the small town of Smelliville, the Ogglies at once feel at home. And it's here they want to stay.