Movies like Mikado (2024)

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Roll Bounce (2005)

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Foster (2011)

Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas (2018)

As Bright Fields preps for its Mistletoe Ball, a broken ornament leads Zoe to a family secret, while Gaby finds herself at the mercy of new boss Mia.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Clique (2008)

A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy

Chang Can Dunk (2023)

Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy

Fahim (2019)

Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & family

The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her father--especially since the nice young men around town all fear him. Wouldn't you fear a father-in-law that keeps alligators for pets and teaches boxing at his daily Bible classes?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Six Pack (1982)

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013)

While trying to prove to her family she can be mature and responsible, teen wizard Alex Russo conjures up a spell to rid herself of her bad qualities, unintentionally creating a Good and Evil Alex. When Evil Alex gets involved in a plan to take over the world by a dark wizard, Good Alex must find a way to save her family, humankind, and ultimately herself in an epic Good vs. Evil battle.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy

Alibi.com (2017)

Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)

Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them - because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. So Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Those Happy Days (2006)

Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Little Big League (1994)

When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011)

Linus is pushed to his limits when he learns Grandma is coming to visit and plans on ridding him of his childish security blanket.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

See Spot Run (2001)

A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible, mailman, neighbor, Gordon, when the babysitter bails on her. Meanwhile, an assassin mob boss hires 2 goons to kill Agent 11. But when 11 escapes from the van when they tried to kill him, he hides in Gordon's Mailtruck that James is in too. And guess what they name him. Spot.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy

Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie (2013)

Ever since the world was born, two forces have been locked in perpetual battle. Their struggle is so Manichean, so ferocious, so Herculean that it makes the clash between good and evil look like a game of checkers! This ancestral duel is so ancient and so merciless that it can only be, Oggy against the Cockroaches!

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Astro Kid (2019)

Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet — Upon the destruction of their ship, Willy is separated from his parents. He lands on a wild and unexplored planet and with the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold until the arrival of a rescue mission.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & family

Whole New Thing (2005)

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Sassy Pants (2012)

Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Wish I Was Here (2014)

Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Captain Fantastic (2016)

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Mysterious Ways (2009)

When all goes Wrong and you're losing everything you have, God works it all out in Mysterious Ways. When the parents of a troubled child try their hands at homeschooling, prosecution by an overzealous social service worker forces them to move to the country. There they discover joy and peace in their new way of life-a life with blessings they never expected.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family & drama

Elsa (1981)

A short satire that parodies a passionate and fashionable return to nature, a green self-sufficient life.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Invisible Revolutions (2014)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Mean Girls (2024)

New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Floudering (2019)

Mackenzie, a public school student, is invited to a home-school prom by a guy who is more interested in using her as bait to reel in his prized catch - his old girlfriend, Ruth.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy