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Movies Like Heavenly Desire

If you liked Heavenly Desire (1979), a comedy and fantasy movie directed by Jaacov Jaacovi, 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. 1Erik the Viking

    Erik the Viking (1989)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and comedy

    Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking…

  2. 2Flesh Gordon

    Flesh Gordon (1974)

    ★ 4.9/10Also comedy

    Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with…

  3. 3Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders

    Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1990)

    ★ 4.4/10Also comedy

    Space-faring hero and galactically-renowned stud Flesh Gordon is kidnapped by a group of space cheerleaders hoping to use him to save their planet. A being simply known as Evil Presence has been rendering the men of…

  4. 4The Nines

    The Nines (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy

    A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

  5. 5Jury Duty: The Comedy

    Jury Duty: The Comedy (1990)

    ★ 2.5/10Also comedy

    Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from Trout Industries. A decidedly mixed bag of jurors are chosen to serve on the case, including Eddie, a waiter; Rita, a…

  6. 6Roger Dodger

    Roger Dodger (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns…

  7. 7Call Girl of Cthulhu

    Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

    ★ 5.1/10Also comedy

    When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.

  8. 8My New Partner II

    My New Partner II (1990)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they…

  9. 9Tank

    Tank (1984)

    ★ 5.7/10Also comedy

    After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when…

  10. 10Dragonflies and Coliaths

    Dragonflies and Coliaths (1998)

    ★ 8/10Also fantasy

    Based on the tales of Chinese writer Pu Songling, the film depicts the romantic relationships of a Chinese student with an undead girl and a fox spirit maiden. Rainer Sarnet's diploma film.

  11. 11China 9, Liberty 37

    China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)

    ★ 5.3/10Also western

    Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a…

  12. 12Irma la Douce

    Irma la Douce (1963)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.

  13. 13A Daughter Of Destiny

    A Daughter Of Destiny (1928)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy

    Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic…

  14. 14Mifune

    Mifune (1999)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy

    Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his…

  15. 15Unforgiven

    Unforgiven (1992)

    ★ 7.9/10Also western

    William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute…

  16. 16Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman (1990)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy

    Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges…

  17. 17Idiocracy

    Idiocracy (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…

  18. 18What Have I Done to Deserve This?

    What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

  19. 192 or 3 Things I Know About Her

    2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.

  20. 20Rosemary

    Rosemary (1958)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy

    West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring members of West German industrial…

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