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Movies that feel likeThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

If you loved The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the closest films we have are Monster Hunt (2015), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) and Jungle Cruise (2021). All three share The Secret Life of Walter Mitty's epic and witty 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).

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

Gentle-hearted fantasy adventure with a streak of pure silliness

The difference: Chinese CGI creature romp — cute chaos, no soul-searching

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

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

Timid people discovering bolder selves in spectacular terrain

The difference: Video-game logic and body-swap gags — adventure as pure play

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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Jungle Cruise
2021 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · adventureDisney+

A grand old-fashioned expedition with banter to spare

The difference: Theme-park supernatural romp — no quiet longing underneath

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Deadpan daydream logic — life observed from a strange, sad angle

The difference: Bleak Swedish absurdism — the whimsy here has teeth

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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🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

A humble seeker's quest told with wild imaginative swings

The difference: Cartoonish demon battles — slapstick with sudden darkness

In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.

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The Darjeeling Limited
2007 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 69%★ 7.2adventure · drama · comedy

A picturesque journey that's really about fixing a stalled life

The difference: Wes Anderson irony — feelings arrive sideways, never swelling

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

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

An ordinary professional whose visions pull him into real adventure

The difference: Creaky fantasy kung fu — earnestness without the craft

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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Zoolander 2
2016 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 21%★ 4.7action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Stiller in front of the camera again, globe-trotting included

The difference: A gag-machine sequel with none of Mitty's sincerity

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 73%★ 7.2adventure · comedy · drama

Both land scale and stillness at once

The difference: Goes its own way on the dream logic

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

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

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

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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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · dir. John Francis Daley
★ 7.2adventure · fantasy · comedyNetflixParamount+

Epic adventure in both cases

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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