Movies like Cocoon
Cocoon (1985) is a comedy movie directed by Ron Howard. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Home (2025)
★ 6.8 · 331 votes · Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
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2. Jules (2023)
★ 7.1 · 423 votes · Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama
A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.
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3. Robot & Frank (2012)
★ 6.9 · 1,207 votes · Sci-Fi, Comedy, Crime
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.
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4. Last Vegas (2013)
★ 6.4 · 2,337 votes · Comedy
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.
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5. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
★ 6.4 · 790 votes · Drama, Comedy
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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6. *batteries not included (1987)
★ 6.7 · 847 votes · Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
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7. Pleasantville (1998)
★ 7.3 · 1,980 votes · Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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8. Lilo & Stitch (2025)
★ 7.2 · 2,324 votes · Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
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9. Asteroid City (2023)
★ 6.5 · 2,667 votes · Comedy, Drama
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
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