Movies Like Life for Beginners

If you liked Life for Beginners (2025), a comedy and fantasy movie directed by Paweł Podolski, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Yellow Mirror (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy
A defective lamp reveals a heartbreaking truth about what Homer believes is reality, and an AI-powered tablet befriends and controls Maggie. The Simpsons struggle to find the light through two dark tales of the curious…
2
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
3
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.
4
Vampire Academy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and fantasy
Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the…
5
Duplex (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
6
My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
Geeky 14-year old Ethan is left to babysit his younger sister, Jane, with his best friend Benny but after Ethan inadvertently puts Jane in harm's way, his parents hire a professional babysitter, the beautiful yet…
7
Love and Monsters (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and fantasy
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite…
8
Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
9
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
10
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy and comedy
Agent Coulson stops at a convenience store and deals with a coincidental robbery during his visit.
11
Justice League: Doom (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy
An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
12
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also comedy and fantasy
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…
13
Team Thor: Part 2 (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and fantasy
A continuation of the documentary spoof of what Thor and his roommate Darryl were up to during the events of "Captain America: Civil War". While Cap and Iron Man duke it out, Thor tries to pay Darryl his rent in…
14
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.
15
Welcome to the Club (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Heart set on becoming a princess, Lisa Simpson is surprised to learn being bad might be more fun.
16
Ladyhawke (1985)
★ 7/10Also comedy and fantasy
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together…
17
Weird Science (1985)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and fantasy
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a…
18
American Dreamer (2022)
★ 6/10Also comedy
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
19
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
20
Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
A series of 30 sketches, following the hilarious antics of various characters from a galaxy, far, far away.