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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 Mon Oncle (1958). 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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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

Fantasy built on whimsy, twice over

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

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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. Roberto Benigni
★ 7.6comedy · fantasy

Fantasy 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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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999 · dir. Trey Parker
🍅 81%★ 7.7animation · comedyParamount+

Dreamlike comedy in both cases

The third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.

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

Whimsical fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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Ghostbusters II
1989 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 57%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyHulu

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

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

The shared currency is wit

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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Checkered Ninja
2018 · dir. Thorbjørn Christoffersen
★ 7.1animation · comedy · adventurePrime Video

Both sit in the same playful register

A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

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

A streak of dream logic through both

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

Both working the same comedy territory

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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