Movies like The Golden Laws (2003)

Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)

One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & animation

Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya (2013)

What would have happened if the Shiroyasha never existed? Edo is thrown to chaos by a mysterious cause. Sakata Gintoki, now lives in a world where the future has changed, without him. What has happened to the Yorozuya? Gintoki, who is now a ghost of the past, must once again carry the burden in order to save his friends. He must finish the biggest job ever, which may be the final job of Yorozuya.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Regular Show: The Movie (2015)

After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026)

Iroha's life gets knocked off its orbit when Kaguya, a carefree runaway from the Moon, moves in and convinces her to perform in a virtual world together.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

A Wind Named Amnesia (1990)

A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later, a young man who has been re-educated travels across America on a mysterious journey.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Expelled from Paradise (2014)

A.D. 2400, DEVA's central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that hacker referred to themselves as "Frontier Setter." To investigate the mysterious hacker's motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch system Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth's surface. Equipped with a prosthetic "material body," Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth's surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeleton powered suit Arhan.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

The 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

The 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)

Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)

It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)

It has been thirteen years since the Androids began their killing rampage and Son Gohan is the only person fighting back. He takes Bulma's son Trunks as a student and even gives his own life to save Trunks's. Now Trunks must figure out a way to change this apocalyptic future

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Hello World (2019)

A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Scarlet (2025)

After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End Place," she will become "Void" and cease to exist. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Memories (1995)

Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (2014)

When the evil Yo-Kai Kin, Gin and Bronzlow makes the Yo-Kai Watch disappear from time so they can help Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-Kai from being friends, Nate Adams finds help in the Yo-Kai Hovernyan, who takes Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan 60 years to the past, when the Yo-Kai Watch was first invented by Nate's grandfather, Nathaniel Adams, while he was a boy. Together, the 2 boys fight Dame Dedtime and her evil Wicked Yo-Kai minions to save the world from her evil plans.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Brave Story (2006)

Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one. Another mysterious student Mitsuru shows Wataru that there is a magical door to another world where one can go and get the Goddess of Fortune to grant one wish! When tragedy strikes Wataru's family he decides to open the door for himself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)

When the creator of the world, Arceus, comes to pass judgement on humanity for the theft of the legendary Jewel of Life, Ash and his friends are sent back in time to possibly reverse the events that led to Arceus' vendetta.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

One Piece: Episode of Skypiea (2018)

The Straw Hats embark on a dangerous trip to the sky where their destination comes straight out of a fairytale. The island of Skypiea and its grand city of gold await among the clouds, but a clash of winged clans and a man who calls himself God won’t make things easy! Only Luffy can resist this God’s mighty power and light the mysteries of the past.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Modest Heroes (2018)

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)

The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & science fiction

Akira (1988)

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & science fiction

Back to the Future (1985)

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

The Lord of the Rings (1978)

Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase (1956)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku (1955)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče (1954)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Alistair1918 (2015)

A social work grad student’s film project on L.A. homelessness becomes something quite other when she and her friends encounter a man claiming to be from another time and place.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Willy McBean & His Magic Machine (1965)

Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation

Doggie March (1963)

It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his revenge, will achieve together a large number of animals. An animated collaboration between Osamu Tezuka and Toei Animation.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation