Movies Like Barnum's Trunk
If you liked Barnum's Trunk (1904), a comedy and fantasy movie directed by Gaston Velle, 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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Under the Sea: A Descendants Story (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasyMal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.
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A Woman (1915)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyMother, 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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One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and fantasyMonsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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The Play House (1921)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and fantasyUpon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
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The Tramp (1915)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyThe 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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The Bank (1915)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyA janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.
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Dough and Dynamite (1914)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyPierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
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The Railrodder (1965)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyAfter literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
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Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and fantasyThe Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse twosome--Tom and Jerry--returns with another adventure. When Tom and Jerry's irrepressible curiosity gets the best of them, the mysterious magic ring that Tom guards with his life ends…
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A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyA gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyBuster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
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The Chaplin Revue (1959)
★ 7.4/10Also comedyThree Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting…
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Magician Mickey (1937)
★ 7/10Also comedyDonald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.
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A Jitney Elopement (1915)
★ 5.8/10Also comedyEdna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her…
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and fantasyA documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
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The '?' Motorist (1906)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and comedyA magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
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A Knight for a Day (1946)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyBy accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.
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The Flying Car (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyStuck in a traffic jam, Dante and Randal discuss the prospect of a flying car.
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Minions & Monsters (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and fantasyThis is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the…
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Thru the Mirror (1936)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and fantasyMickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.