Movies like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017)
The best movies like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017) are Father and Daughter (2001), Funan (2019) and The Illusionist (2010). If Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming hooked you with its animation and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedLoving Vincent (2017)8.0/10 from 2,677 votes
- NewestBouchra (2026)Released 2026
Father and Daughter (2001)
A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFunan (2019)
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Illusionist (2010)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPear Cider and Cigarettes (2016)
The brutally honest story of Robert's turbulent relationship with a self-destructive, yet charismatic friend from childhood, who cries out for help from a military hospital in China and sets Rob on a wild ride to get him home to Vancouver.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Swallows of Kabul (2019)
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBorrowed Time (2015)
A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaughter (2019)
A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlind Vaysha (2016)
From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBouchra (2026)
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
The Breadwinner (2017)
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisButterfly (2025)
A Jewish North African middle-aged man's swim in the sea triggers memories of his earlier life as an Olympic swimmer before and after World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Weekends (2017)
Set in 1980s Toronto, a young boy shuffles between the homes of his recently divorced parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTehran Taboo (2017)
The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPersepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNegative Space (2017)
Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn the Shadow of the Cypress (2023)
Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
The Art of Happiness (2013)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisI Lost My Body (2019)
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSita Sings the Blues (2008)
Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Windshield Wiper (2021)
Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?". A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLoving Vincent (2017)
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Rabbi's Cat (2011)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBear Story (2016)
An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeautiful Men (2023)
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & drama
Infinity Train (2016)
In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Strings (2004)
The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his own designs on the throne.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this$9.99 (2009)
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhere Is Anne Frank (2021)
The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHilda and the Mountain King (2021)
When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming?
The closest matches to Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming are Father and Daughter (2001), Funan (2019) and The Illusionist (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming?
People who watched Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming most often go on to Father and Daughter (2001), Funan (2019) and The Illusionist (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming?
Loving Vincent (2017), rated 8.0/10 by 2,677 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming?
Bouchra (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming?
Yes: Pear Cider and Cigarettes (2016), Borrowed Time (2015) and Bouchra (2026).
How are movies similar to Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.