Movies like The Windshield Wiper (2021)
The best movies like The Windshield Wiper (2021) are In a Heartbeat (2017), Ninety-Five Senses (2022) and BoxBallet (2020). If The Windshield Wiper hooked you with its animation and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIn a Heartbeat (2017)8.0/10 from 1,039 votes
- NewestButterfly (2025)Released 2025
In a Heartbeat (2017)
A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNinety-Five Senses (2022)
A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
BoxBallet (2020)
Once a fragile ballerina Olya meets a rude and gloomy boxer Evgeny. The contrast between the worlds of the heroes and their worldview is so striking that the very possibility of intersection of heroes appears as a miracle. Are the heroes ready to accept the same timid feeling that arose between them? Will they overcome everything external and superficial, behind which fragile loving souls are hidden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & romance
The Girl Without Hands (2016)
A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWorld of Tomorrow (2015)
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
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
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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoda (2013)
A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies 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
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 & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWindow Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming (2017)
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
I 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
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMadame Tutli-Putli (2007)
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Pussy (2016)
A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tower (2018)
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Bear 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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFeast (2014)
This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Flying Sailor (2022)
The Flying Sailor is based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour causing the largest accidental explosion in history. Among the tragic stories of the disaster is the remarkable account of a sailor who, blown skyward from the deck of a British cargo steamer, flew over 2 km before landing completely unharmed, but naked except for his boots.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlee (2021)
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPearl (2016)
The story of a girl and her dad as they cross the United States in an older model hatchback chasing their dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Summit of the Gods (2021)
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (2022)
When a young telemarketer is confronted by a mysterious talking ostrich, he learns that the universe is stop motion animation. He must put aside his dwindling toaster sales and focus on convincing his colleagues of his terrifying discovery. It's scary business living in a stop motion world, where your faces come off and a giant hand controls your every move.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDune (2020)
Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Windshield Wiper?
The closest matches to The Windshield Wiper are In a Heartbeat (2017), Ninety-Five Senses (2022) and BoxBallet (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Windshield Wiper?
People who watched The Windshield Wiper most often go on to In a Heartbeat (2017), Ninety-Five Senses (2022) and BoxBallet (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Windshield Wiper?
In a Heartbeat (2017), rated 8.0/10 by 1,039 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Windshield Wiper?
Butterfly (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Windshield Wiper?
Yes: In a Heartbeat (2017), Ninety-Five Senses (2022) and Pear Cider and Cigarettes (2016).
How are movies similar to The Windshield Wiper chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Windshield Wiper, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.