Movies like Hell and Back
The best movies like Hell and Back (2015) are Blood Tea and Red String (2006), The Wolf House (2018) and Wendell & Wild (2022). If Hell and Back hooked you with its fantasy and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMary and Max (2009)7.9/10 from 2,375 votes
- NewestHazbin Hotel: Sing-Along (2025)Released 2025
Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
The aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak battle over the doll of their hearts' desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wolf House (2018)
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWendell & Wild (2022)
Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMary and Max (2009)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTux and Fanny (2019)
Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Sausage Party (2016)
Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Boxtrolls (2014)
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHarvie Krumpet (2003)
The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMad God (2021)
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Town Called Panic (2009)
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoomins and the Comet Chase (2010)
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise professors there. The friends have to overcome several adversities in order to make it there. When they arrive, they find the professors deep in calculations. They reveal that a comet will reach the Earth in four days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Idiots and Angels (2008)
Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Life as a Zucchini (2016)
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrankenweenie (2012)
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnomalisa (2015)
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMonkeybone (2001)
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEdison & Leo (2008)
The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & fantasy
The House (2022)
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFree Jimmy (2006)
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHazbin Hotel: Sing-Along (2025)
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption. A theatrical exhibition of the first four episodes of season 1, with karaoke subtitles for every song.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisParaNorman (2012)
In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMissing Link (2019)
The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Separation (2003)
The separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2 (2022)
A drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDick Figures: The Movie (2013)
Two best friends, Red and Blue, risk everything to find the greatest treasure of all time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Suicide Shop (2012)
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFixed (2025)
After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIsle of Dogs (2018)
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hell and Back?
The closest matches to Hell and Back are Blood Tea and Red String (2006), The Wolf House (2018) and Wendell & Wild (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hell and Back?
People who watched Hell and Back most often go on to Blood Tea and Red String (2006), The Wolf House (2018) and Wendell & Wild (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hell and Back?
Mary and Max (2009), rated 7.9/10 by 2,375 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hell and Back?
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hell and Back?
Yes: Blood Tea and Red String (2006), Wendell & Wild (2022) and Mary and Max (2009).
How are movies similar to Hell and Back chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hell and Back, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.