Movies like Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Name: Pan's Labyrinth
Released: 2006

10 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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The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Fit 80%

Shares Drama and Fantasy with Pan's Labyrinth.

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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Tideland (2005)

Fit 67%

Shares Fantasy and Drama with Pan's Labyrinth.

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Fit 60%

Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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Monos (2019)

Fit 57%

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 Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Fit 55%

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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Resistance (2020)

Fit 54%

Shares War and Drama with Pan's Labyrinth.

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
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For a Lost Soldier (1992)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama and War with Pan's Labyrinth.

In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life.
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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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Pedro Páramo (2024)

Fit 46%

Shares Drama and Fantasy with Pan's Labyrinth.

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.
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Lion of the Desert (1981)

Fit 45%

Shares War and Drama with Pan's Labyrinth.

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.