20 best movies like Charly (1968)

List of the best movies like Charly (1968): Children of a Lesser God, Phenomenon, The Waterdance, The Theory of Everything, Temple Grandin, Sound of My Voice, Another Earth, I Origins, Womb, Untamed Heart.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

James, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf, falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
Duration02:03

    The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

      On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Hungary, France
      Duration01:47

      A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with him -- but not all their fellow Minnesotans are happy for them. Meanwhile, the couple face their own difficulties when Caroline finds about Adam's past, including his unique health condition.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      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. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Spain
      Duration02:28

      As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:52

        Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:08

        He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama
        CountryItaly, Germany, France, USA
        Duration01:45

        Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. When life takes a turn neither of them expected, their entire future is called into question.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it stands to reason that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother Grace McCallister. Grace's personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as President of the United States.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrefantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

        The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        A high school student falls asleep while sitting in class. When he wakes up, all time is frozen, except for him.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        Alex's dreary life is reignited when he meets Rachel, the woman of his dreams. The only thing that stands in the way of their perfect, serendipitous relationship is that Rachel has recently passed away.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:13

        Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find a way to make their relationship work?

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, short
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:19

        At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him a glimpse into what his life would look like had he followed his calling.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryItaly, Spain
        Duration02:07

        Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

        In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:37

        Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryGermany, Republic of Ireland, USA
        Duration01:46

        Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryFrance, Belgium, Singapore
        Duration02:00

        Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:13

          In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.




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