Movies Like Perchance to Dream
If you liked Perchance to Dream (1979), a movie directed by Tom Schiller, 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.
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Shanghaied (1915)
★ 6/10A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The…
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Mike's New Car (2002)
★ 6.9/10Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't…
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A Woman (1915)
★ 6.1/10Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for…
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The Railrodder (1965)
★ 6.8/10After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
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Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
★ 6.7/10This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via…
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Bird Karma (2018)
★ 6.5/10A tale of a long-legged bird's journey of blissful joy, inescapable greed and the accidental discovery of the consequences when too much is not enough.
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Tom & Jerry (2021)
★ 6.7/10Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the…
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The Wrong Trousers (1993)
★ 7.8/10Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.
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Baseball Bugs (1946)
★ 6.9/10Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.
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Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
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Thin Ice (2012)
★ 6.5/10A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
★ 6.8/10A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
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The Tramp (1915)
★ 6.5/10The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life…
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Our Wife (1931)
★ 7.1/10Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…
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CQ (2001)
★ 5.9/10A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…
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Oliver the Eighth (1934)
★ 7.1/10Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and…
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The Champion (1915)
★ 6.5/10Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe…
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No Time for Nuts (2006)
★ 7.4/10Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.
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Sea Scouts (1939)
★ 6.4/10Donald is an admiral on a seagoing voyage with his nephews in which they encounter a ravenous shark.