15 Movies Like The Painting

Loved The Painting? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Dracula
#1

Dracula

In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Le Clitoris
#2

Le Clitoris

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

1001 Nights
#3

1001 Nights

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Miraculous World: Tokyo, Stellar Force
#4

Miraculous World: Tokyo, Stellar Force

Kagami drags Marinette to Tokyo to help the Stellars defeat a new supervillain, but Marinette soon realizes her friend has another, untold reason for this trip to Japan.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

The Aristocats
#5

The Aristocats

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Painting.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
#6

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie

After a guardian of magical jewels turns an awkward girl and a popular boy into superheroes, they can never reveal their identities — even to each other.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Miraculous World: London, at the Edge of Time
#7

Miraculous World: London, at the Edge of Time

To save the future from a terrible fate, Marinette becomes Chronobug and teams up with Bunnyx to defeat a mysterious opponent who travels through time.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Pets on a Train
#8

Pets on a Train

When a train unexpectedly starts up, taking only pets with it, the animals discover that Hans, a badger with a grudge is behind it all. While the crash seems inevitable, the animals can count on Falcon, a roguish Raccoon who will do anything to save them.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Arthur and the Invisibles
#9

Arthur and the Invisibles

Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

The Exterminating Angels
#10

The Exterminating Angels

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
#11

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Beauty and the Beast
#12

Beauty and the Beast

Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Persepolis
#13

Persepolis

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's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Arco
#14

Arco

Ten-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age from 2075, comes to his rescue and tries by any means to help send him back to his own era.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
#15

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Painting.