Movies like Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Name: Pan's Labyrinth
Released: 2006

9 films to watch after Pan's Labyrinth, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

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Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

Fit 63%

Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

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Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
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Irena's Vow (2024)

Fit 53%

Shares War and Drama with Pan's Labyrinth.

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
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Monos (2019)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
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The Company of Wolves (1984)

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Shares Fantasy with Pan's Labyrinth.

Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
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Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

Fit 46%

Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
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Dreams (1990)

Fit 45%

Shares Fantasy and Drama with Pan's Labyrinth.

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
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Max Manus: Man of War (2008)

Fit 39%

Shares War with Pan's Labyrinth.

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
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40 Acres (2025)

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Shares Drama and Fantasy with Pan's Labyrinth.

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.