Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Liz and the Blue Bird

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

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#1
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day

Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day

2019★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Animation & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The next piece begins! Kumiko is now in her second year at Kitauji High School, and with a new year comes new problems. As if making it to Nationals wasn't hard enough, Kumiko is t...

#2
Obsessed

Obsessed

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Capt...

#3
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May the Melody Reach You!

Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May the Melody Reach You!

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Animation & Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Autumn is in the air as the Kitauji High School concert band prepares for the National Competition. The band hears troubling news that Asuka Tanaka, vice president of the club and ...

#4
Ballad of a Soldier

Ballad of a Soldier

1959★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he...

#5
Giovanni's Island

Giovanni's Island

2014★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Animation & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this...

#6
Revue Starlight: The Movie

Revue Starlight: The Movie

2021★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Liz and the Blue Bird for fans of Animation & Drama & Music. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but dazzling displays for the amusement and judgment of others. For the performers, i...