Movies like Inside Out (2015)

Name: Inside Out
Released: 2015

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

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

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Up (2009)

Fit 71%

Shares Animation, Comedy, Family and Adventure with Inside Out.

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
2

WALL·E (2008)

Fit 70%

Shares Animation and Family with Inside Out.

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
3

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Fit 69%

Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Inside Out.

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
4

Christopher Robin (2018)

Fit 67%

Shares Adventure, Comedy and Family with Inside Out.

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
5

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)

Fit 67%

Shares Animation, Family, Drama and Adventure with Inside Out.

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
6

My Father's Dragon (2022)

Fit 64%

Shares Animation, Adventure, Family and Comedy with Inside Out.

Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
7

Elio (2025)

Fit 54%

Shares Animation, Adventure, Family and Comedy with Inside Out.

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
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The Boxtrolls (2014)

Fit 53%

Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Inside Out.

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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Leo (2023)

Fit 50%

Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Inside Out.

Jaded 74-year-old reptile Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.
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Strange World (2022)

Fit 50%

Shares Animation, Family and Adventure with Inside Out.

A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.