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Movies that feel likeThe Addams Family (1991)

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

If you loved The Addams Family, the closest films we have are Slayers Return (1996), The Visitors (1993) and Liar Liar (1997). All three share The Addams Family'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 Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984).

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Barry Sonnenfeldwittyplayfuldreamlikewhimsical
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Addams Family Values (1993)

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Slayers Return
1996 · dir. Hiroshi Watanabe
★ 6.9animation · comedy · fantasy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Sits closer to animation than The Addams Family does

Lina Inverse and Naga the White Serpent are back! What begins as a routine bandit-stomping turns into the adventure of a lifetime involving magical golems, an ancient Elven weapon and even someone bent on destroying the world. It's a predicament only Lina and Naga could get themselves in to.

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

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Liar Liar
1997 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 83%★ 6.9comedy · fantasyNetflix

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

The difference: Trades the whimsy of The Addams Family for an angle of its own

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

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

Comedy with a pulse of play, 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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Ghostbusters
1984 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 95%★ 7.8comedy · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

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

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Secret Magic Control Agency
2021 · dir. Alexey Tsitsilin
★ 6.2animation · comedy · fantasyNetflix

Comedy built on whimsy, twice over

The Secret Magic Control Agency sends its two best agents, Hansel and Gretel, to fight against the witch of the Gingerbread House.

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

Witty fantasy 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

The shared currency is play

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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Look Who's Talking
1989 · dir. Amy Heckerling
🍅 56%★ 6comedy · romance

Both sit in the same whimsical register

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through voice-over.

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

Common ground: halloween

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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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Both run dreamlike where it counts

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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