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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Where the Wild Things Are
Movies closest to Where the Wild Things Are
Black Narcissus 1947Also contemplative, meticulous and character-led
Here 2024Also earnest, contemplative and character-led
Ikiru 1952Also contemplative, earnest and meticulous
The Life of Chuck 2025Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
Life of Pi 2012Also earnest and contemplative
The Shadow Play 1992Also contemplative
The Company of Wolves 1984Also contemplative and character-led
The Island 2006Also contemplative and earnest
Penda's Fen 1974Also contemplative, character-led and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Blonde 2016Also contemplative, earnest and meticulous
- Beware of the Monkey 2022Also earnest and character-led
- Under the Pink 1994Also earnest
Books
The Woman Warrior 1976Also earnest, contemplative and character-led
The Joy Luck Club 1989Also earnest and character-led
The Wild Things 2009Also earnest
Games
Across the Grooves 2020Also earnest and contemplative
Concierge 2025Also contemplative and character-led
Bokura 2023Also earnest
Series
The Haunting of Hill House 2018Also contemplative and earnest
Haibane Renmei 2002Also contemplative, earnest and character-led
Barzakh 2024Also contemplative
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