Movies like We Have a Ghost (2023)
The best movies like We Have a Ghost (2023) are For Sale (2024), Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). If We Have a Ghost hooked you with its horror and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMarry My Dead Body (2023)7.1/10 from 230 votes
- NewestBeetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)Released 2024
For Sale (2024)
When his life hits rock bottom, a shady salesman finds a last-ditch gig selling a haunted house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)
Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHaunted Mansion (2023)
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShow Me the Ghost (2021)
Best friends ‘Hodu’ and ‘Yeji’ are job seekers whose dreams and hopes have been ruined. One day, ‘Hodu’ luckily gets a decent cheap fully loaded rent house. ‘Yeji’, who has been kicked out of her parents’ house, also stays there with him. They gradually feel a strange energy in the house that seemed perfect. They encounter ominous ghost and freaked out. With no place to go and no money, they try to defeat the ghost to protect their house…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhoster (2023)
When a mysterious letter appears on the day they are being evicted, Elizabeth and her father can’t believe their luck to discover they've inherited Echoville Manor, a sprawling, thirty-seven room estate. Upon arriving, Elizabeth finds that the mansion is inhabited by the world’s cutest spirit, Ghoster, who has been trapped within a mirrored prison there for fifty years. Together, they must uncover the secrets to Echoville to free Ghoster before the nefarious Yuto captures her soul as well in his quest for immortality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Talents Society (2024)
When ghosts must compete to survive in the underworld by haunting the living, one unassuming young woman needs help creating a lasting performance while under the tutelage of a passionate agent and a washed-up diva.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunted Mansion (2003)
Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSecrets in the Hot Spring (2018)
Xiaogin transferred to the third school during his fifth year at high school. During the winter vacation, his grandparents tricked him into returning to the hotel which was founded by his parents. Xiaogin’s classmates Little Princess and Lu Qun tagged along uninvited to escape being bullied at school. While the three boys were temporarily staying at Xiaogin’s family hotel, they quickly found out that the hotel was in terrible shape and was also haunted. Xiaogin and his friends have developed an extremely close friendship while they are trying to step closer to the truth. Will they find out the secret that hides underneath the steaming hot springs?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Ghostmates (2016)
A down-on-his-luck man discovers that his new apartment is inhabited by a self-absorbed ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Scary House (2020)
When a big-city family moves to a remote town, two young brothers and their new friends try to solve the menacing mystery that haunts their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDown a Dark Hall (2018)
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Frighteners (1996)
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Soul-Mate (2018)
Jang-soo is a judo instructor who is indifferent to everyone but his daughter. One day he realizes he can see Tae-jin, a ghost who used to be a devoted police officer. Tae-jin asks Jang-soo to help solve the case that took his life away from him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDelirium (2018)
A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
A Halloween-hating dad reluctantly teams up with his teenage daughter when an evil spirit wreaks havoc by making their town's decorations come to life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostbusters (2016)
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisExtra Ordinary (2019)
A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
The Spengler family returns to where it all started - the iconic New York City firehouse - to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who've developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDarby and the Dead (2022)
After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time. When an unexpected occurrence happens between Darby and Capri, the most popular girl at her high school, Darby reluctantly agrees to help her and in the process learns how to fit in with the living world again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFive Friends (2024)
In this quirky horror comedy, five hikers explore a mountain, casually heeding superstitious warnings - but later realize that one of them is a ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Mostly Ghostly (2008)
Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him transform from a social nobody to the most popular kid in school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Scream Team (2002)
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMarry My Dead Body (2023)
After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisR.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls (2015)
Teenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales of Terror (1962)
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like We Have a Ghost?
The closest matches to We Have a Ghost are For Sale (2024), Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after We Have a Ghost?
People who watched We Have a Ghost most often go on to For Sale (2024), Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
What is the highest-rated movie like We Have a Ghost?
Marry My Dead Body (2023), rated 7.1/10 by 230 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like We Have a Ghost?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like We Have a Ghost?
Yes: For Sale (2024), Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
How are movies similar to We Have a Ghost chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside We Have a Ghost, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.