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Movies that feel likeLiar Liar (1997)

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

If you loved Liar Liar, the closest films we have are Bruce Almighty (2003), The Visitors (1993) and Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984). All three share Liar Liar's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Songs from the Second Floor (2000).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tom Shadyacwittyplayfuldreamlike
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Bruce Almighty
2003 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.8fantasy · comedy

The same hand behind both of them: Tom Shadyac

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

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The Visitors
1993 · dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
🍅 31%★ 7fantasy · comedyPrime Video

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

Dreamlike comedy in both cases

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

Fantasy built on wit, twice over

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 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Both lean on play more than on comedy

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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Ghostbusters
1984 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 95%★ 7.8comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.

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

Comedy with a pulse of wit, 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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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasyNetflix

Both lean on play more than on fantasy

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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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Both sit in the same dreamlike register

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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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyMax

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

The same fantasy instincts

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Liar Liar 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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Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 88%★ 7.5drama · comedy

Both play comedy straight

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

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