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Movies that feel like Harvey (1950)

If you loved Harvey, the closest films we have are Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), If I Were You (2006) and If I Were You 2 (2009). All three share Harvey'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 HBO Max, Criterion Channel and Artiflix and others, checked against today's data.

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Henry Kosterwittyplayfuldreamlike

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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
1984 · dir. Massimo Troisi
7.6comedy · fantasy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

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If I Were You
2006 · dir. Daniel Filho
🍅 13%6.1comedy · fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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 · dir. Daniel Filho
5.6comedy · fantasy

Fantasy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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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Genevieve
1953 · dir. Henry Cornelius
🍅 86%7.1comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

The difference: None of the dream logic Harvey is built on

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%7.7comedy

Fantasy built on wit, twice over

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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A Dog's Will
2000 · dir. Guel Arraes
8.6comedy · drama · fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: based on play or musical

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Harvey does

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

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A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 97%8romance · fantasy · drama

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Harvey does

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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🍅 90%6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

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 Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%7.1comedy · fantasy

Both sit in the same dreamlike register

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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The Bank Dick
1940 · dir. Edward F. Cline
🍅 96%7.1comedy

Comedy in the same key

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

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Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

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The Visitors
1993 · dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
🍅 31%7fantasy · comedy

Both play fantasy straight

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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