Movies like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998)
The best movies like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998) are Dennis the Menace (1993), Problem Child (1990) and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012). If Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! hooked you with its family and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHome Alone (1990)7.5/10 from 13,061 votes
- NewestPups Alone (2021)Released 2021
- Same seriesDennis the Menace (1993)Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Why it matches: Same series: Dennis the Menace · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisProblem Child (1990)
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhantom of the Megaplex (2000)
Pete Riley is a 17-year-old who lands a part-time job at a multiplex in his neighbourhood. He and his friends are excited when it's announced that the theatre will play host to the premier of a major motion picture, with a number of Hollywood celebrities in attendance. However, when the big night comes, Pete has to contend with disappearing staff, malfunctioning equipment, and a broken popcorn machine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRi¢hie Ri¢h (1994)
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Alone (1990)
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisProblem Child 3 (1995)
Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but does notice three other boys – a child star, a hockey player and a Boy Scout – who are rivals to Junior. This means war!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Little Rascals (1994)
When nine-year-old Alfalfa falls for Darla, his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Wimpy Greg Heffley, now in seventh grade, thinks he has it all together. He has mastered middle school and gotten rid of the Cheese Touch. However, Greg's older brother, Rodrick, is itching to cut him down to size. He gets the perfect opportunity when their mother tries to force the boys to bond. Rodrick may be Greg's chief tormentor, but he feels his constant pranks are just what his little brother needs to prepare him for life's hard knocks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlappy and the Stinkers (1998)
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisProblem Child 2 (1991)
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRent-a-Kid (1995)
Harry Habert, owner of a rental company, has an original idea—to rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to local families. He rents the Ward siblings, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisMail to the Chief (2000)
A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Average Joe, only to discover that he's been corresponding with and giving political advice to the President of the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Blank Check (1994)
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and compensates the boy with a blank check. Preston makes the check out for $1 million and goes on a spending spree he'll never forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Alone 3 (1997)
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisBaby's Day Out (1994)
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonkey Trouble (1994)
Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisCan of Worms (1999)
A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMatilda (1996)
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoney, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Giants (1994)
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Grandmother's House We Go (1992)
When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeave It to Beaver (1997)
The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio – wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as 'Beaver'. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Look Under the Bed (1999)
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stupids (1996)
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwin Sitters (1994)
An evil business executive is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPups Alone (2021)
After receiving an exciting new job opportunity at a cutting edge Pet Invention company, Robert, his teenage daughter Jenna and their trusty and special border collie Charlie make the move to the new neighborhood, right before Christmas. Upon arriving, Robert meets his gorgeous next door neighbor Holly, and her sassy and spunky border collie Gidget. Before the sparks can fly, they are set upon my Robert’s conniving and obnoxious next door neighbor and project manager Victor, his neighborhood bully bulldog “Vinnie P” and the sycophantic sidekick Chihuahua “Jose”.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!?
The closest matches to Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! are Dennis the Menace (1993), Problem Child (1990) and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!?
People who watched Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! most often go on to Problem Child (1990), Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) and Phantom of the Megaplex (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!?
Home Alone (1990), rated 7.5/10 by 13,061 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!?
Pups Alone (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Dennis the Menace, which includes Dennis the Menace (1993).
Are there English movies like Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!?
Yes: Dennis the Menace (1993), Problem Child (1990) and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012).
How are movies similar to Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.