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Films like Lightyear.

Lightyear (2022) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured animation / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Transformers One (2024) poster
1. Transformers One2024

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ultraman: Rising (2024) poster
2. Ultraman: Rising2024

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Miraculous World: Tokyo, Stellar Force (2025) poster
3. Miraculous World: Tokyo, Stellar Force2025

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Astro Boy (2009) poster
4. Astro Boy2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Dragonkeeper (2024) poster
5. Dragonkeeper2024

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Arco (2025) poster
6. Arco2025

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Strange World (2022) poster
7. Strange World2022

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Artemis Fowl (2020) poster
8. Artemis Fowl2020

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Mars Needs Moms (2011) poster
9. Mars Needs Moms2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) poster
10. Steven Universe: The Movie2019

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Guest from the Future (2024) poster
11. Guest from the Future2024

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Swapped (2026) poster
12. Swapped2026

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Lightyear’s neighbours — where are yours?

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