Movies like Building a Building (1933)
The best movies like Building a Building (1933) are Boat Builders (1938), Mickey's Birthday Party (1942) and The Opry House (1929). If Building a Building hooked you with its animation and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSteamboat Willie (1928)7.3/10 from 633 votes
- NewestMickey's Delayed Date (1947)Released 1947
Boat Builders (1938)
Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, "so simple a child could do it", so of course, they have their share of troubles. But before long, they're ready to launch the Queen Minnie, with appropriate fanfare, at which time, all the collapsible parts collapse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey's Birthday Party (1942)
The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The gang does a conga line to a Latin tune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Opry House (1929)
Mickey runs a small theatre. The orchestra plays, rather badly, excerpts from Carmen. Mickey appears as a snake charmer, but the snake is revealed to be a cat with a snake's head painted on its tail. Mickey does a belly dance, to the audience's delight. Mickey then plays the piano, but the piano and stool, apparently annoyed at the violence and complexity of the piece, kick him off stage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMickey's Fire Brigade (1935)
Mickey, Donald and Goofy are a fire department. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boardinghouse fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub and rescue her, tub and all, against her will (she won't believe there's a fire).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPuppy Love (1933)
Mickey's in trouble when Pluto and Fifi eat Minnie's chocolates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Mickey's Service Station (1935)
Mickey, Goofy & Donald have 10 minutes to fix Pete's car. Or else!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGiantland (1933)
Mickey's orphans ask for a story; Mickey casts himself as Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk. He starts with the climbing of the beanstalk; after evading the giant a few times, he ends up inside a cheese sandwich, and then in the giant's mouth, where he ultimately grabs onto a pipe and gets pulled out by the giant. In the ensuing chase, Mickey launches a pepper bomb to slow the giant down, then outruns him coming down the beanstalk and sets the stalk on fire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Magician Mickey (1937)
Donald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToby Tortoise Returns (1936)
Toby Tortoise is back, and this time he and Max Hare box instead of racing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cactus Kid (1930)
Mickey walks into the tavern where Minnie is dancing, and begins to dance and play piano himself. Pegleg Pete comes in and treats Minnie badly. Mickey tries to defend her, but Pete steals her away. Mickey, riding Horace Horsecollar, gives chase. He manages to throw Pete off a cliff.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Mickey's Delayed Date (1947)
Even though Mickey's evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he's late. Luckily his best pal Pluto is happy to help wrangle the uncooperative evening wear and help get him out the door...without the tickets
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey's Choo-Choo (1929)
Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mickey dances. After lunch, the train has trouble climbing a hill, and the last car with Minnie aboard detaches and runs away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
How to Play Football (1944)
Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Gentleman's Gentleman (1941)
Mickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man's (and mouse's?) best friend Pluto as gentleman's gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also pay for it with a coin for the vending machine, and those round things have a nasty habit of escaping a dog's teeth and bouncing over the pavement till they end up in the gutter. After enough attempts to fish and spend the penny, Pluto has a newspaper to carry the same way. The wind has a nasty way to get a better grip on page after page then the dog, so by the time he delivers the daily dose of printed news it's an embarrassingly muddy mess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Window Cleaners (1940)
Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And when things are finally going well, Donald makes the mistake of tormenting a bee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParade of the Award Nominees (1932)
Mickey Mouse grand marshals a parade of 1932 Academy Award nominees. Minnie Mouse leads the marching band and Clarabelle Cow rolls out a carpet for the celebrities. Wallace Beery marches in boxing gloves with Jackie Cooper as his footman. Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt walk the route together. Helen Hayes shuffles down the carpet. Fredric March appears as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Marie Dressler follows, trailing a corset and an alarm clock. Pluto brings up the rear of the parade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
A robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoving Day (1936)
Donald and Mickey are overdue on their rent, so the sheriff is preparing to evict them and sell their belongings. Goofy the ice-man comes by and helps them move out before the sale, but their piano doesn't want to stay on his truck. Meanwhile, Donald has a fight with a plunger and a fishbowl after removing a heater from the gas line.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClock Cleaners (1937)
It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Karnival Kid (1929)
Mickey Mouse is working as a hot dog vendor at a carnival when he meets and quickly falls for Minnie the "Shimmy Dancer". That night, Mickey and a pair of alley cats serenade her by performing the song "Sweet Adeline", much to the dismay of Kat Nipp, who is trying to sleep. The short marks Mickey's first speaking appearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940)
Mickey is heading out on vacation from Burbank to Pomona, taking the train. The conductor, Pete, won't let him on with Pluto, so he hides Pluto in his suitcase, and tries to hide him all throughout the trip without much luck. But Pete wins when Pluto is hooked by a mail hook. Or does he?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated "trick films", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlane Crazy (1929)
Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey's Polo Team (1936)
Mickey Mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMickey's Mellerdrammer (1933)
Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Steamboat Willie (1928)
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLend a Paw (1941)
Jealous over Mickey's attention to a kitten, Pluto's devil-self argues with his angel-self over whether or not to rescue the kitten when it falls into a well. The angel-self wins, and Pluto is treated like a hero. In the end, he and the kitten become friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey's Trailer (1938)
Goofy's in the driver's seat, Mickey's in the kitchen, and Donald's in bed in Mickey's high-tech house trailer. When Goofy comes back to eat breakfast, leaving the car on autopilot, it takes them onto a dangerous closed mountain road. When Goofy realizes this, he accidentally unhooks the trailer, sending it on a perilous route. They come very close to disaster several times, while the oblivious Goofy drives on and hooks back up to them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Band Concert (1935)
Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead. After Donald gives up, a bee comes along and causes his own havoc. The band then reaches the Storm sequence, and the weather also starts to pick up; a tornado comes along, but they keep playing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Little Whirlwind (1941)
Mickey wants some of the cake Minnie has just baked, so he offers to clean up her yard. As he's working, a tiny tornado (smaller than him) with a mind of its own comes along and causes trouble. After Mickey finally chases the little twister off, it gets its big brother, which makes a grand mess of the yard. Most of the cartoon, except for the opening and closing, has no dialogue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Building a Building?
The closest matches to Building a Building are Boat Builders (1938), Mickey's Birthday Party (1942) and The Opry House (1929). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Building a Building?
People who watched Building a Building most often go on to Boat Builders (1938), Mickey's Birthday Party (1942) and The Opry House (1929).
What is the highest-rated movie like Building a Building?
Steamboat Willie (1928), rated 7.3/10 by 633 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Building a Building?
Mickey's Delayed Date (1947) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Building a Building?
Yes: Boat Builders (1938), Mickey's Birthday Party (1942) and The Opry House (1929).
How are movies similar to Building a Building chosen?
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