Movies like Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)

Name: Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Released: 2020

10 films to watch after Violet Evergarden: The Movie, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

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Colorful (2010)

Fit 68%

Shares Animation and Drama with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
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Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)

Fit 63%

Shares Animation and Drama with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
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maboroshi (2023)

Fit 60%

Shares Animation, Drama, Romance and Fantasy with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving teenage Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)

Fit 58%

Shares Animation, Drama and Fantasy with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong reasons... Meanwhile, Sakuta and Kaede's father suddenly calls, saying that their mother wants to see her daughter. She was hospitalized because Kaede's condition had been too much for her to bear, so what could she possibly want now?
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Fireworks (2017)

Fit 57%

Shares Animation, Romance, Fantasy and Drama with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden (2009)

Fit 50%

Shares Animation, Drama and Romance with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

Takizawa prevented Japan's destruction - and then he vanished. Six months later, clues lead Saki to the Big Apple in search of her missing friend. Meanwhile, the remaining Selecao are plotting their final move. Some of them would prefer Takizawa dead and out of the way. Some might even be willing to help him achieve his goals. Unfortunately, some are prepared to destroy everything if it means claiming checkmate in Mr. Outside's puzzling game.
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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)

Fit 48%

Shares Animation and Drama with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
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To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)

Fit 40%

Shares Animation and Romance with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel universe. Traveling between dimensions is common in their world, but not without repercussions. Does a universe exist for the young couple, and what will it cost them to find it?
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)

Fit 39%

Shares Drama with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
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Violet Evergarden: Recollections (2021)

Fit 38%

Shares Drama, Fantasy, Animation and Romance with Violet Evergarden: The Movie.

An emotionally scarred former child soldier becomes a letter writer in this condensed recap of the moving, gorgeously animated award-winning series.