Movies Like Otto – The Alien from East Frisia

If you liked Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989), a comedy movie directed by Marijan David Vajda and Otto Waalkes, 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
Your Sister's Sister (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
2
Arctic Dogs (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Animals band together to save the day when the evil Otto Von Walrus hatches a sinister scheme to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle.
3
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy
When thrill-seeker Cricket tricks his family into taking a "road trip" in space, chaos in the cosmos quickly ensues. Despite growing frustrations between Cricket and his dad, Bill, the two must learn to appreciate each…
4
Trouble (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
A pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children and must learn how to survive on the big-city streets.
5
The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Blast off to adventure in this animated feature where our favorite space-age family, The Jetsons, meet the superstars of WWE! When George unearths WWE’s Big Show, who has been frozen for 100 years, the futuristic…
6
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
7
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fight a common threat. Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice…
8
In Your Dreams (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.
9
Isle of Dogs (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the…
10
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Phineas and Ferb travel across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and taken to a utopia in a far-off planet, free of her pesky little brothers.
11
My Father's Dragon (2022)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious…
12
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.
13
Kokowääh 2 (2013)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…
14
The Boxtrolls (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
15
Old Agent Men (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by the German government. Their mission is to rescue the interim…
16
Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
After 20 years in space, Rocko returns to a technologically advanced O-Town and makes it his mission to get his favorite show back on the air.
17
The Three Stooges (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the…
18
My Best Friend, His Girlfriend and Me (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Olli and Matze are best friends living, working and planning to travel the world together — until Matze's romance with Rebecca turns it all upside down.
19
Toy Story 5 (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
20
Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Franklin is new to town and hoping to make friends, but his usual tactics don't work on the Peanuts gang. When the Soap Box Derby arrives, he's sure it's a chance to impress new pals and teams up with the only other…