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Movies that feel like If I Were You (2006)

If you loved If I Were You, the closest films we have are A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), Monster Hunt (2015) and The Change-Up (2011). All three share If I Were You'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 Hulu, Criterion Channel and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 13% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Daniel Filhowittyplayfuldreamlike

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: If I Were You 2 (2009)

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🍅 90%6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than If I Were You does

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

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The Change-Up
2011 · dir. David Dobkin
🍅 26%6.3comedy

Common ground: body-swap

The difference: Missing the dream logic of If I Were You

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

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

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than If I Were You does

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

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Key of Life
2012 · dir. Kenji Uchida
7.3comedy · crime

The same preoccupation in both: body-swap

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as If I Were You

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

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Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 71%6.6adventure · comedy · fantasy

Playful comedy in both cases

As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

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

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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

Fantasy built on play, twice over

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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The Boss of It All
2006 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 74%6.6comedy

Comedy approached the same way

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potential purchasers insist on negotiating with the "Boss" face to face the owner has to hire a failed actor to play the part.

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The Myth
2005 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 20%6.1action · adventure · comedy

The shared currency is dream logic

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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The Invisible Woman
2009 · dir. Cláudio Torres
6.3comedy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

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