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Crew: Studio Ghibli

Arrietty (2010)

3 November 20119 July 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Miniature People Adventures

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Category: Fantasy

The Boy and the Heron (2023)

5 July 2024

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Boy Enters Otherworld

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

The Cat Returns (2002)

25 July 200430 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Girl’s Adventure in the World of Cats

Director: Hiroyuki Morita
Category: Fantasy

Earwig and the Witch (2020)

5 December 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Anime/Witch’s Apprentice

Director: Goro Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

24 July 200517 August 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Cyberpunk Anime

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

7 January 200613 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Epic Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

23 February 200819 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Young Witch’s Adventures

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)

31 October 200823 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Lost Floating City

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Science Fiction

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

18 October 20045 July 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Pom Poko (1994)

11 April 200511 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Raccoons Declare War on Humanity

Director: Isao Takahata
Category: Fantasy

Ponyo on a Cliff By the Sea (2008)

13 August 20098 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Fish Girl Becomes Human

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Porco Rosso (1992)

14 September 200413 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Talking Pig Aviator

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Princess Mononoke (1997)

30 November 199911 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Epic Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Gillian Anderson, …
Category: Fantasy

The Red Turtle (2016)

10 October 201612 June 2023

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Castaway Befriends Turtle Woman

Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Category: Fantasy

Spirited Away (2001)

12 April 200212 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★★

Anime/Afterlife Bathhouse

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

3 October 201412 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Japanese Fairytale

Director: Isao Takahata
Category: Fantasy

Tales from Earthsea (2006)

29 July 20074 August 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Anime/Epic Fantasy

Director: Goro Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

When Marnie Was There (2014)

14 June 20152 September 2021

Rating: ★★★

Anime/Ghost Story

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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