Movies like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- (2013)
The best movies like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- (2013) are Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026), Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012). If Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- hooked you with its mystery and animation, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2000)8.2/10 from 200 votes
- NewestPuella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026)Released 2026
- In JapanesePuella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026)Also in Japanese
- Same seriesPuella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026)Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026)
After the events of Rebellion, the world appears to be in balance—but that peace is fragile. As a new threat connected to Walpurgisnacht emerges, Homura Akemi is forced to face the consequences of her choices and question how far she is willing to go to protect Madoka.
Why it matches: Same series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie · both animation & mystery
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012)
As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.
Why it matches: Same series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPuella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012)
Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
Why it matches: Same series: Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st (2010)
Takamachi Nanoha is a normal third-grader who feels a little useless and out-of-place with no purpose. Then one day, she saves a ferret, who turns out to be a mage from another planet who came to this planet to search for the jewel seeds. Nanoha agrees to help, but this task gets complicated when another girl arrives to steal them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)
Sakura Kinomoto, a Card Captor, wins a game of chance and is awarded a trip to Hong Kong, along with her best friend Tomoyo and her rival, Syaoran Li. It turns out that the ancient rival of Clow Reed, the creator of the mysterious and powerful Clow Cards, summoned them, and she's out for revenge. A battle ensues, and secrets are revealed about Clow Reed's shady past and Sakura's connection to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's (2012)
Six months after the events of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st, Fate has returned to Uminari City with Lindy as her legal guardian and is living the life of a normal elementary schoolgirl along with Nanoha and her friends. The reunion between the two new-found friends is cut short, however, when they are assaulted by four ancient magic users who identify themselves as the Wolkenritter. As the motives behind the actions of the Wolkenritter become clear, Nanoha and Fate find themselves in a race against time to stop the reactivation of a highly dangerous artifact known as the Book of Darkness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2000)
All of the Clow Cards have been captured, and Sakura Kinomoto, the new Master of the Cards, is preparing to play the lead in the play for the town festival. However, a new evil force is causing mysterious events all over Tomoeda, including the disappearance of Sakura's cards. With Syaoran's help, Sakura must figure out the cause of these events, and save her town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl (2021)
The world is dying, no longer able to support life. The Ainsworth family can use the Holy Grail to save humanity, but the price of salvation is sacrifice of the magical girl Miyu — but Miyu’s brother, Shirou, won’t let them have her without a fight. Now it’s up to Illya to step in and find a solution that will save not only Miyu, but the entire world for impending doom. But when the price for the world's salvation is the life of a single, innocent girl, what will Illya choose?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Vow in the Snow (2017)
Despite his adoptive father's warnings that the girl found in the remnants of a destroyed city is too dangerous to be considered anything other than a tool or weapon, Shirou Emiya comes to treat Miyu as a younger sister. But when Shirou relaxes his guard and Miyu starts normal school, the Ainsworth family and their agents swoop in, kidnapping the girl with the goal of sacrificing her! Faced with the realization that Miyu's ability to do good will always be equaled by her capacity for destruction, Shirou must attempt to both rescue his adopted sister, and decide how to confront the threat that her powers will always pose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower (2017)
Ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War, a devastating clash between Masters and Servants, another war erupts. Shirou Emiya, whose father fought in the first battle, was leading a peaceful life with the warmhearted Sakura Matou. But when hidden forces begin to stir, Shirou resolves to fulfill his father’s dying wish, protect Sakura, and fight for the Holy Grail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 1 (2021)
After a total solar eclipse, a dark circus troupe appears, Mamoru is stricken with a mysterious malady and bad things start happening across the city. Sequel to the Sailor Moon Crystal TV series.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008)
January 1999: Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou, Mikiya's younger sister, has been ordered by her mentor, Touko Aozaki, to investigate a certain incident in which fairies steal the memories of students at Azaka's school, Reien Academy. Azaka launches an investigation with the help of Shiki.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFutari wa Precure Splash☆Star the Movie: Tic-Tac Crisis Hanging by a Thin Thread! (2006)
In the middle of a karaoke contest, Saki and Mai find that time has suddenly stopped. Following some spirits, they wind up in the Land of Clocks where they find Sirloin, a warrior from Dark Fall who is keeping the Infinite Clock hostage. Naturally, Pretty Cure won't stand for this, and they begin to battle. But can they stop fighting with each other first?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection (2017)
The planet Eltria, having suffered severe desertification in the past, has all but been abandoned. Against her older sister's wishes, Kyrie Florian travels to Earth alongside her best friend, the AI Iris, in search of the key to their planet's regeneration. However, the only way to find it lies within the Tome of the Night Sky, leading them into conflict with Nanoha and her friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & animation
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal the Movie Part 2 (2021)
While under the care of the Outer Sailor Guardians, Hotaru begins to age rapidly. Then, the time comes for all the Sailor Guardians to reunite!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPretty Cure All Stars DX3: Deliver the Future! The Rainbow-Colored Flower That Connects the World (2011)
Precure All Stars Movie DX3: Deliver The Future! The Rainbow-Colored Flower That Connects The World is the third movie in the series, released on March 19, 2011, starring all the Cures from the previous series, including those introduced in Suite PreCure, as well as various villains featured in previous Pretty Cure movies. The theatrical release was edited in parts as a result of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami which occurred before the movie was due to be released.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
The Irregular at Magic High School THE MOVIE - Yotsuba Succession Arc - (2026)
The invitation has arrived. It's time for the New Year's Reception at the Yotsuba family residence. This year, Miyuki and other candidates will gather there to decide who will be the next leader of their powerful clan. If chosen as successor, she would never again have to see her brother live as an outcast. At the same time, such a position would surely entail a political marriage, leaving her mind in complete turmoil. To complicate matters, the current head of the family sows doubt with a shocking statement. When the new year arrives, their relationship may change forever...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (2020)
The battle rages on as Shirou continues to protect Sakura, now consumed by the darkness. He joins forces with Rin to end the Holy Grail War, while Illyasviel, who knows the truth behind it, confronts her fate. Amidst the chaos, Zouken plots to manipulate Sakura for his own desires. The final fight begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon (2021)
After battling their way through all seven Singularities, the Chaldea Security Organization has finally arrived at the endpoint of the Grand Order: The Final Singularity, Grand Temple of Time: Solomon. Now is the time to defeat the root of all evil, Solomon, the King of Mages. Now is the time to reclaim the future. With the final operation looming large, Romani Archaman considers the choices he will soon have to make, Mash Kyrielight dwells on life's limitations, and Fujimaru prepares to receive a new Mystic Code. All their many encounters have led to this moment as Fujimaru and Mash at last embark on their final operation...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose (1993)
While enjoying the flower gardens, Sailor Moon and friends encounter an old childhood friend of Mamoru's: an alien! He's come back to give Mamoru a special flower but doesn't like Usagi and the rest of the planet's inhabitants. Sailor Moon must defend the earth from the evil Kisenian Flower he's brought back... before the evil vines and blossoms overrun the planet!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole (1995)
The wicked Badiyanu has come to capture all Earth's children to gain enough power to absorb the planet in her Black Dream Hole. The Black Dream Hole is in Badiyanu's castle and absorbs the dream energy from children. The more children Badiyanu kidnaps, the larger the dream hole gets. The Sailor Team must save Earth's children and prevent the Black Dream Hole from enveloping the entire planet!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future (2013)
One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear this beside someday, a mysterious man named Marsh appears, and Mana is thrown back into the past. She was happy to see her grandmother she loved and her old dog Maro, but she then realizes that Alice and Rikka aren't there because memories have been altered. In order to save precious memories, the future, dreams and hope, Mana transforms into Cure Heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Smile Precure! The Movie: Big Mismatch in a Picture Book! (2012)
The movie transports the Precure into a world inside a picture book, where they are guided by Niko, a mysterious inhabitant of the picture book world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Irregular at Magic High School: The Girl Who Summons the Stars (2017)
In the story, the seasons have changed and it will soon be the second spring. Tatsuya and Miyuki have finished their first year at First Magic High School and are on their spring break. The two go to their villa on the Ogasawara Island archipelago. After only a small moment of peace a lone young woman named Kokoa appears before them. She has abandoned the Naval base and she tells Tatsuya her one wish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl from the Other Side (2023)
Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on the border to the inner land inhabited by humans, one such being finds a girl on heaps of abandoned dead bodies. The girl says her name is Shiva and shows affection to the "being" who found her, calling him "Teacher." This is a story of two people—one human, one inhuman—who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFate/Grand Order -First Order- (2016)
The Chaldea Security Organization was founded to focus on preserving the continuation of human history. They observe a world which magecraft couldn’t observe, and science couldn’t measure, all to prevent the certain extinction of humanity. But one day, the future that Chaldea continued to observe disappears and humanity’s extinction in 2017 becomes clear. Based on the assumption that Fuyuki, a provincial town in Japan, is the reason for humanity’s extinction, Chaldea issues an order to explore, investigate, and possibly destroy this singularity – a quest for the Holy Grail, the Grand Order.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDate A Bullet: Dead or Bullet (2020)
The first part of Date A Bullet: Hibiki Higoromo, better known as, Empty, is an amnesiac young girl. She wakes up in the neighboring world, where she encounters Tokisaki Kurumi. In order to kill the mysterious girl, Kurumi leads Empty to a school. When arriving at the school, a number of girls, known as semi-spirits, gather together. Now then, a new battle begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
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What are the best movies like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-?
The closest matches to Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- are Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026), Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-?
People who watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- most often go on to Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st (2010), Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999) and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-?
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2000), rated 8.2/10 by 200 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-?
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie, which includes Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026), Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012).
Are there Japanese movies like Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-?
Yes: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- (2026), Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (2012) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings (2012).
How are movies similar to Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.