Close, not exact

The Lion King, but for the quiet hopefulness underneath everything

Nothing in the catalog nails this hook as hard as The Lion King does, but the films below come honestly close.

The match

Suzume

2022Japan★ 7.9subtitled

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

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If you want a second one

Ballerina

2016France★ 7.2subtitled

In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

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