Movies like The Cobbler (2014)
The best movies like The Cobbler (2014) are Click (2006), A Thousand Words (2012) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). If The Cobbler hooked you with its fantasy and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAbout Time (2013)7.9/10 from 9,646 votes
- NewestGood Fortune (2025)Released 2025
Click (2006)
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Thousand Words (2012)
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHairbrained (2013)
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisStranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Family Man (2000)
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfterlife of the Party (2021)
A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig (1988)
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Fortune (2025)
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Family Thanksgiving (2010)
A happily single, self-absorbed, workaholic corporate lawyer is living the high life in New York City until she awakes in alternative reality. Now a wife and stay-at-home mom, Claudia struggles to make sense of her new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBedtime Stories (2008)
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbout Time (2013)
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisJust Like Heaven (2005)
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBig Fish (2003)
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShortcut to Happiness (2007)
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like this17 Again (2009)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImagine That (2009)
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invention of Lying (2009)
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaddy You, Daughter Me (2017)
Sangtae and his teenage daughter Doyeon are constantly arguing and haven't had a genuine conversation in years. When their souls are switched by a magical force for seven days, they must learn to tackle the awkward and unfamiliar situation in each other's shoes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
The Science of Sleep (2006)
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this13 Going on 30 (2004)
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGenie (2023)
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost Town (2008)
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Present (2024)
A brilliant boy discovers he can manipulate time using an enchanted family heirloom, then teaming up with his siblings to go back to the eve of their parents’ separation in hopes of changing the outcome. As their schemes become more elaborate, the siblings will learn about family bonds and what they can and can’t control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nines (2007)
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Cobbler?
The closest matches to The Cobbler are Click (2006), A Thousand Words (2012) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Cobbler?
People who watched The Cobbler most often go on to Click (2006), A Thousand Words (2012) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Cobbler?
About Time (2013), rated 7.9/10 by 9,646 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Cobbler?
Good Fortune (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Cobbler?
Yes: Click (2006), A Thousand Words (2012) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).
How are movies similar to The Cobbler chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Cobbler, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.