When Marnie Was There (2014)

Name: When Marnie Was There
Released: 2014

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

Genres: Animation, Drama, Family

What to watch after When Marnie Was There

Only Yesterday (1991) — Same subject: flashback
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) — Same feel: emotional, reflective
After Life (1998) — Susumu Terajima appears in both
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) — Hiromasa Yonebayashi directed both
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
The Boy and the Heron (2023) — Same feel: emotional, mysterious