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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Mary and The Witch's Flower (2017)

Fit 77%

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.
2

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Fit 75%

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

A Letter to Momo (2012)

Fit 72%

Shares Fantasy, Animation and Family with Arrietty.

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.
4

The Borrowers (1997)

Fit 69%

Shares Fantasy and Family with Arrietty.

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
5

Momo (2025)

Fit 59%

Shares Family and Fantasy with Arrietty.

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
6

Epic (2013)

Fit 56%

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.
7

The Legend of Ochi (2025)

Fit 55%

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.
8

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

Fit 52%

Shares Fantasy and Family with Arrietty.

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
9

Welcome to Smelliville (2021)

Fit 44%

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.
10

Pinocchio (2022)

Fit 40%

Shares Fantasy and Family with Arrietty.

A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.