Movies like The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)
The best movies like The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016) are The Visitors (1993), The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998) and Two Worlds (2007). If The Visitors: Bastille Day hooked you with its comedy and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMonty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)7.8/10 from 6,723 votes
- NewestKaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Visitors (1993)Also in French
- Same seriesThe Visitors (1993)The Visitors
The Visitors (1993)
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.
Why it matches: Same series: The Visitors · both fantasy & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998)
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Why it matches: Same series: The Visitors · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Worlds (2007)
A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Knight (2001)
After nearly drowning, an employee working at a medieval amusement park awakens to find himself in 14th century England.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJust Visiting (2001)
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard. Remake of 1993 French film Les Visiteurs (The Visitors).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTime Travel Is Dangerous! (2025)
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop. Mixing reality with fantasy, we explore the strange and outlandish world of The Unreason, as the girls traverse space and time sourcing items to sell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Case départ (2011)
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack in Crime (2013)
Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Knight in Camelot (1998)
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTime After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMidnight in Paris (2011)
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTime Bandits (1981)
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimeline (2003)
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisTomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSafety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr. Nobody (2009)
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSmoking Causes Coughing (2022)
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuasi (2023)
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Antidote (2005)
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisKaamelott: The First Chapter (2021)
Hidden in Rome, King Arthur is planning his return to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Time Machine (2002)
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSteak (2007)
George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. At the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the “Chivers” a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDelicatessen (1991)
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dinner Game (1998)
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) (2025)
After reclaiming Kaamelott from Lancelot's tyrannical rule, Arthur spares his life, defying Celtic gods. Knights must prove themselves for Table Round seats while Arthur faces new threats as king.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRobin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Visitor from the Future (2022)
In a devastated future, the apocalypse threatens the Earth. The last hope lies with a man capable of time travel. His mission: to return to the past and change the course of events. But the time police hunts him down in every era. A race against time begins for the Visitor from the Future...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Visitors: Bastille Day?
The closest matches to The Visitors: Bastille Day are The Visitors (1993), The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998) and Two Worlds (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Visitors: Bastille Day?
People who watched The Visitors: Bastille Day most often go on to Two Worlds (2007), Black Knight (2001) and Just Visiting (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Visitors: Bastille Day?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), rated 7.8/10 by 6,723 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Visitors: Bastille Day?
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Visitors: Bastille Day part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to The Visitors, which includes The Visitors (1993) and The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998).
Are there French movies like The Visitors: Bastille Day?
Yes: The Visitors (1993), The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time (1998) and Two Worlds (2007).
How are movies similar to The Visitors: Bastille Day chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Visitors: Bastille Day, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.