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10 Best Movies Like Invention

If you loved Invention, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Destino

Destino

2003★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and b...

#2
The House

The House

2022★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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....

#3
Lend a Paw

Lend a Paw

1941★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Jealous over Mickey's attention to a kitten, Pluto's devil-self argues with his angel-self over whether or not to rescue the kitten when it falls into a well. The angel-self wins,...

#4
Pluto Junior

Pluto Junior

1942★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Pluto and Pluto Junior are enjoying a lazy afternoon snooze when the playful pup tangles with a ball, a balloon, a worm, a bird, and a clothesline. Pluto rescues his son from a pre...

#5
The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

1933★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of ...

#6
Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull

1938★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Invention for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveal...

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