Movies like Sadouh (1989)

Afterlife 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy

Christmas...Again?! (2021)

Rowena "Ro" is a high-spirited 11-year-old hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents’ divorce is going anything but smoothly.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

The 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & drama

Naughty or Nice (2012)

Krissy Kringle receives a delivery intended for Santa Claus. A magical book that shows if a person has been naughty or nice. She uses the book's power to find out about those around her, which leads to some very unusual and unintended results. Krissy realizes that everyone has some good and some not so good in them.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy

Slumberland (2022)

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

Candy Cane Lane (2023)

Determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, unleashing chaos on the small unsuspecting town.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013)

While trying to prove to her family she can be mature and responsible, teen wizard Alex Russo conjures up a spell to rid herself of her bad qualities, unintentionally creating a Good and Evil Alex. When Evil Alex gets involved in a plan to take over the world by a dark wizard, Good Alex must find a way to save her family, humankind, and ultimately herself in an epic Good vs. Evil battle.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

The Willoughbys (2020)

When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas (2018)

As Bright Fields preps for its Mistletoe Ball, a broken ornament leads Zoe to a family secret, while Gaby finds herself at the mercy of new boss Mia.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Six Pack (1982)

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

Foster (2011)

Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Roll Bounce (2005)

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Burn Your Maps (2016)

A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

It Runs in the Family (2003)

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Borrowers (1997)

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy

The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Kristin's Christmas Past (2013)

Kristin, a cynical 34-year-old, drinks a mysterious champagne on Christmas Eve and wakes up seventeen years in the past, sharing a room with her 17-year-old self. Given the chance to change the worst Christmas of her life, she attempts to fix past mistakes, only to discover surprising truths about her family that may help her mend her present-day relationships.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & fantasy

Godmothered (2020)

A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman in need of something very different than a "prince charming."

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

It Could Happen to You (1994)

Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Barfly (1987)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Huang Pi: God of Money (2024)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & fantasy

Two for the Money (2005)

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Knock'em Dead (2026)

When a struggling actor, estranged for years from his family, Travis Hoffman, comes back home, he finds he's going to have to deal with more than, merely, a little familial drama.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Lonely Hearts (2006)

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Condemned. Jazz of Seaside (2019)

Rokas decides to take everything into his hands and starts new business project. Where love and money meets - there will be blood, that will paint coast red.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Danger: Diabolik (1968)

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

54 (1998)

When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar — and a front-row ticket to the most legendary party on the planet!

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama