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Movies that feel like The Visitors (1993)

If you loved The Visitors, the closest films we have are Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984), 17 Again (2009) and If I Were You (2006). All three share The Visitors' 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 31% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Marie Poirédreamlikewittyplayful

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

Both are built on the same subject: middle ages (476-1453)

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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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%6.4comedy · fantasy

One thread runs through both: time travel

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

The same mix in both: dream logic, then wit

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

Fantasy built on play, twice over

The difference: 22 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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Ghostbusters II
1989 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 57%6.6comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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If I Were You 2
2009 · dir. Daniel Filho
5.6comedy · fantasy

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

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

Playful comedy in both cases

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

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Visitors does

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

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Last Action Hero
1993 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 42%6.5fantasy · action · comedy

Fantasy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Visitors does

After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.

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🍅 90%6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Both work the same play

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

Fantasy in the same key

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 · comedy

The same comedy instincts

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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