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Movies that feel likeThe Brand New Testament (2015)

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...

If you loved The Brand New Testament, the closest films we have are A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) and The Visitors (1993). All three share The Brand New Testament'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 The Mermaid (2016).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaco Van Dormaelwittyplayfuldreamlike
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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Brand New Testament 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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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyMax

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

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

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Comedy built on play, twice over

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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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
1984 · dir. Roberto Benigni
★ 7.6comedy · fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Brand New Testament does

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

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

Both lean on play more than on fantasy

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 work the same dream logic

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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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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

The fantasy is handled with the same confidence

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

Comedy of the same temperament

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

Fantasy approached the same way

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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