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10 Best Movies Like The Strange Desire

If you loved The Strange Desire, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

2008★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood....

#2
L.A. Story

L.A. Story

1991★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of ...

#3
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

#4
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...

#5
Drifting Clouds

Drifting Clouds

1996★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki,...

#6
Re-Animated

Re-Animated

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Strange Desire for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jimmy is the kid everybody ignores and uses. One day, he gets into a freak accident. The only way for him to survive is a brain transplant. He gets the brain of Milt Appleday, a fa...