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Movies that feel like A Trip to the Moon (1902)

If you loved A Trip to the Moon, the closest films we have are Mickey 17 (2025), One Week (1920) and Spaceballs (1987). All three share A Trip to the Moon's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Georges Mélièsepiccerebralwittyplayfuldarkly funnyawe
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Mickey 17
2025 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 77%6.7science fiction · comedy · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: space adventure

The difference: 123 years apart, and the 2020s show

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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One Week
1920 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%8.1comedy

Common ground in both: silent film and short film

The difference: None of the scale A Trip to the Moon is built on

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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Spaceballs
1987 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 53%7.1comedy · science fiction

Common ground: satire

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

One thread runs through both: space adventure

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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🍅 68%7adventure · comedy · drama

Both land scale and ideas at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than A Trip to the Moon does

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 60%6.7adventure · comedy · science fiction

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 · dir. Georgiy Daneliya
7.8comedy · science fiction · adventure

Adventure built on awe, twice over

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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I'm All Right Jack
1959 · dir. John Boulting
🍅 83%7.1comedy

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

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PK
2014 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 81%8.1comedy · drama · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

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Don't Look Up
2021 · dir. Adam McKay
7.1comedy · science fiction · drama

Common ground: astronomer

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

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The Producers
1968 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 92%7.5comedy

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

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Barbarella
1968 · dir. Roger Vadim
🍅 64%5.9science fiction · adventure · comedy

Science fiction with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

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