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Movies Like Josephine and the Roach

If you liked Josephine and the Roach (2012), a fantasy and comedy movie directed by Jonathan Langager, 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. 1Joe's Apartment

    Joe's Apartment (1996)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

  2. 2Chips Ahoy

    Chips Ahoy (1956)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy

    Chip and Dale are starving in their tree home when they notice a plentiful supply of acorns on an island in a lake. To get to the island, they borrow a miniature model ship of Donald's to sail on. The irate Donald…

  3. 3Caprice

    Caprice (1986)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and comedy

    A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.

  4. 4Kermit's Swamp Years

    Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and comedy

    At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.

  5. 5Secret Society of Second-Born Royals

    Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A rebellious teenage princess discovers she has superhuman abilities and joins a secret society of extraordinary second-born royals tasked with protecting the world.

  6. 6B.O.B.'s Big Break

    B.O.B.'s Big Break (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Dr. Cockroach comes up with a brilliant plan to break themselves out of Area 52 – but to implement the plan, he has to trick B.O.B. into thinking it’s his birthday.

  7. 7Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

    Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and fantasy

    The 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…

  8. 8Beau Hunks

    Beau Hunks (1931)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

  9. 9Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

    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.

  10. 10Invisible Sister

    Invisible Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy

    Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.

  11. 11Day & Night

    Day & Night (2010)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and fantasy

    When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they…

  12. 12The Tramp

    The Tramp (1915)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    The 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…

  13. 13Mickey's Steam Roller

    Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    While streetworker Mickey romances Minnie, Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie take control of his steamroller and it's full speed ahead on a very destructive ride.

  14. 14Thru the Mirror

    Thru the Mirror (1936)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and fantasy

    Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive.

  15. 15Pixie Hollow Bake Off

    Pixie Hollow Bake Off (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy

    Tink challenges Gelata to see who can bake the best cake for the queen's party. Plus 10 Disney Fairies Mini-Shorts: - Just Desserts - If The Hue Fits - Dust Up - Scents And Sensibility - Just One Of The Girls…

  16. 16Duplex

    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!

  17. 17Slumberland

    Slumberland (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and fantasy

    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.

  18. 18Puppy!

    Puppy! (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and comedy

    The residents of Hotel Transylvania find their world turned upside-down when youngster Dennis gets a surprise monster-sized pet.

  19. 19Amazon Women on the Moon

    Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some…

  20. 20Princess Nicotine

    Princess Nicotine (1909)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy

    A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he…

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