Movies like Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Name: Howl's Moving Castle
Released: 2004

10 films to watch after Howl's Moving Castle, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

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Spirited Away (2001)

Fit 80%

Shares Animation and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

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.
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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

Fit 68%

Shares Animation and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

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.
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Ponyo (2008)

Fit 62%

Shares Animation and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
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The Black Cauldron (1985)

Fit 62%

Shares Animation, Adventure and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)

Fit 60%

Shares Fantasy, Animation and Adventure with Howl's Moving Castle.

Sakura Kinomoto, a Card Captor, wins a game of chance and is awarded a trip to Hong Kong, along with her best friend Tomoyo and her rival, Syaoran Li. It turns out that the ancient rival of Clow Reed, the creator of the mysterious and powerful Clow Cards, summoned them, and she's out for revenge. A battle ensues, and secrets are revealed about Clow Reed's shady past and Sakura's connection to him.
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Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020)

Fit 58%

Shares Animation, Fantasy and Adventure with Howl's Moving Castle.

The story is about a young boy named Lubicchi and a trashman named Poupelle who meet on a Halloween night in a city that is full of tall chimneys. The chimneys pour out black smoke and the true sky cannot be seen.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Fit 48%

Shares Adventure and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)

Fit 45%

Shares Animation, Fantasy and Adventure with Howl's Moving Castle.

A long-running conspiracy is swirling over a mysterious power wielded by the Queen in Raja, a small country west of Tempest. When a slime who evolved into a Demon Lord named Rimuru Tempest crosses paths with Hiiro, a survivor of the Ogre race, an incredible adventure packed with new characters begins. The power of bonds will be put to the test!
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Fit 44%

Shares Animation and Fantasy with Howl's Moving Castle.

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
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Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Fit 44%

Shares Fantasy and Animation with Howl's Moving Castle.

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.