Movies Like Up! Up! To the sky

If you liked Up! Up! To the sky (2008), a comedy and drama movie directed by Hardi Sturm, 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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
★ 8.4/10Also drama
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
2
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor…
3
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young…
4
Jules (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.
5
The Fall (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of…
6
Box of Moonlight (1996)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from…
7
Stay (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…
8
Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
9
Twins (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature…
10
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum…
11
Birdy (1984)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull…
12
Blue Thunder (1983)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are…
13
Click (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the…
14
Benny & Joon (1993)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
15
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
16
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
17
K-PAX (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
18
Then Came You (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
19
What About Bob? (1991)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's…
20
Chronicle (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives…