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Movies that feel likeIf I Were You 2 (2009)

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.

If you loved If I Were You 2, the closest films we have are A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), Monster Hunt (2015) and The Brand New Testament (2015). All three share If I Were You 2'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).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: If I Were You (2006)

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence poster
🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than If I Were You 2 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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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than If I Were You 2 does

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

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

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

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

Playful comedy in both cases

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

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

A streak of dream logic through both

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. Roberto Benigni
★ 7.6comedy · fantasy

The same comedy instincts

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1980s show

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

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

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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Harvey
1950 · dir. Henry Koster
🍅 88%★ 7.9comedy · fantasy

Both know what they want from comedy

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

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🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

Fantasy in the same key

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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