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10 Best Movies Like How They Save the World!

If you loved How They Save the World!, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Real Men

Real Men

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind....

#2
Dark Star

Dark Star

1974★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intell...

#3
Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon

1987★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contempo...

#4
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

1981★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive....

#5
Sleeper

Sleeper

1973★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government reg...

#6
Strange Brew

Strange Brew

1983★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How They Save the World! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, t...

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