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Movies that feel like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

If you loved Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the closest films we have are Dark Shadows (2012), The Brand New Testament (2015) and Into the Woods (2014). All three share Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Brew and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

πŸ… 76% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Tim Burtonwittyplayfuldreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Beetlejuice (1988)

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Dark Shadows
2012 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 35%β˜… 6.2comedy Β· fantasy

Tim Burton directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

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The Brand New Testament
2015 Β· dir. Jaco Van Dormael
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Into the Woods
2014 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 71%β˜… 5.9fantasy Β· comedy

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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Ted 2
2015 Β· dir. Seth MacFarlane
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.3comedy Β· fantasy

Witty fantasy in both cases

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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If I Were You
2006 Β· dir. Daniel Filho
πŸ… 13%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· fantasy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

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If I Were You 2
2009 Β· dir. Daniel Filho
β˜… 5.6comedy Β· fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

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17 Again
2009 Β· dir. Burr Steers
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· fantasy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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Violent Night
2022 Β· dir. Tommy Wirkola
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.7action Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to action than Beetlejuice Beetlejuice does

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.

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πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9drama Β· comedy Β· fantasy

A streak of dream logic through both

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Beetlejuice Beetlejuice does

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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The Visitors
1993 Β· dir. Jean-Marie PoirΓ©
πŸ… 31%β˜… 7fantasy Β· comedy

Comedy approached the same way

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.

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Ghostbusters II
1989 Β· dir. Ivan Reitman
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.6comedy Β· fantasy

The fantasy is handled with the same confidence

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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Monster Hunt
2015 Β· dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· fantasy Β· adventure

Comedy of the same temperament

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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