25 Best Movies Like Waking Life ...

25 Best Movies Like Waking Life ...

If you liked this film , you will definitely love these too! In this list we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar mood to '', and are worth checking out.

1. A Scanner Darkly (2006)

1h 40m Animation Science Fiction Thriller

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

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2. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

1h 41m Family Animation Comedy Adventure

Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph escapes his game and lands in Hero's Duty, a first-person shooter where he helps the game's hero battle against alien invaders. He later enters Sugar Rush, a kart racing game set on tracks made of candies, cookies and other sweets. There, Ralph meets Vanellope von Schweetz who has learned that her game is faced with a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade, and one that Ralph may have inadvertently started.

3. Paprika (2006)

1h 30m Animation Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

4. Anomalisa (2015)

1h 30m Animation Comedy Drama Romance

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

5. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)

1h 27m Drama Science Fiction Animation Action

The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding the series, while also opening up some new possibilities.

6. Spirited Away (2001)

2h 5m Animation Family Fantasy

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.

7. Lesson Faust (1994)

1h 37m Animation Drama Fantasy

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.

8. $9.99 (2008)

9. The Congress (2013)

2h 2m Drama Science Fiction Animation

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

10. Mind Game (2004)

1h 43m Adventure Animation Mystery

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.

11. The little prince (2015)

1h 48m Adventure Animation Fantasy Family

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.

12. The Illusionist (2010)

1h 20m Animation Drama

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their lives forever.

13. Millennium Actress (2001)

14. Alice (1988)

15. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)

1h 41m Drama Science Fiction Animation

Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.

16. Journey to Agartha (2011)

1h 56m Animation Adventure Drama Fantasy

The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.

17. Inside Out (2015)

1h 35m Animation Family Adventure Drama Comedy

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

18. Wolf Children (2012)

1h 57m Animation Drama Family Fantasy

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

19. Robot Carnival (1987)

1h 32m Animation Fantasy Science Fiction

An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.

20. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

2h 17m Animation Drama Fantasy

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

21. South Park: Kyle Sucks Cartman&`s Balls - The Trilogy (2008)

22. Cool World (1992)

1h 42m Animation Comedy Fantasy

A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses over as well. He sets his lustful sights on animated femme fatale Holli Would, but she's got plans of her own to become real, and it's up to Frank can stop her.

23. The Art of Happiness (2013)

1h 22m Animation Drama

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

24. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)

1h 42m Animation Science Fiction Thriller Drama

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

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