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Movies that feel like Nanny McPhee (2005)

If you loved Nanny McPhee, the closest films we have are Mary Poppins Returns (2018), CJ7 (2008) and Addams Family Values (1993). All three share Nanny McPhee's dreamlike and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

πŸ… 74% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Kirk Jonesdreamlikewittyplayfulwarmcozymelancholy

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.7fantasy Β· family Β· comedy

Common ground in both: nanny and family relationships

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as Nanny McPhee

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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CJ7
2008 Β· dir. Stephen Chow
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· drama Β· family

Common ground: single father

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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Addams Family Values
1993 Β· dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: nanny

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 Β· dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· fantasy Β· animation

One thread runs through both: family relationships

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Nanny McPhee does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.8adventure Β· comedy Β· family

Both keep coming back to the same thing: based on young adult novel

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Nanny McPhee does

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

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Red Dog
2011 Β· dir. Kriv Stenders
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy Β· family

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

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Cheaper by the Dozen
2003 Β· dir. Shawn Levy
πŸ… 25%β˜… 5.9comedy Β· family

Warm and cozy in the same breath

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.

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Hocus Pocus
1993 Β· dir. Kenny Ortega
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 Β· dir. Betty Thomas
πŸ… 44%β˜… 5.4comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

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Evan Almighty
2007 Β· dir. Tom Shadyac
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.4fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Witty family in both cases

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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Babe
1995 Β· dir. Chris Noonan
πŸ… 98%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· drama Β· comedy

Fantasy built on play, twice over

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 Β· dir. Alain Chabat
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.7family Β· fantasy Β· comedy

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

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