20 best movies like Girl, Interrupted (1999)

List of the best movies like Girl, Interrupted (1999): Jungle Child, The Good Lie, Kill Your Darlings, This Boy’s Life, Life, Permanent Record, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Nowhere in Africa, LBJ, To Save A Life.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, adventure, family, biography
CountryGermany
Duration02:11

A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, biography
CountryKenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration01:50

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
    Duration02:11

    In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:21

    A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA

    The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend, whom Jake used to be friends with, commits suicide. Jake begins to think. He wonders what he could've done to save his friend's life. A youth minister tells him that Jake needs God. So Jake becomes a Christian. However, things begin to spin out of control. His dad is cheating on his mom, his girlfriend is pregnant, and his former friends ridicule and mock him. During all this, Jake is going to realize just what it means to be a Christian and how, to save a life.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryGeorgia, Germany, France
    Duration01:42

    Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:57

      A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

        Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama
        CountrySouth Korea

        After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not allowed out unauthorized. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryFrance, Canada
        Duration02:23

        Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
        Duration01:27

          Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genredrama
          CountryFrance, USA, Iran

          A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryRussia
          Duration02:08

          Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, music, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama
          CountryIsrael, Germany, France

          A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, USA

          Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
          Duration02:30

          Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, music, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:19

          A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          A gauzy summer in South Brooklyn. Lila, an awkward adolescent girl, passes her time breaking into beach homes and tagging along on dates between her pretty friend Chiara and Chiara's new boyfriend, Patrick. Lila decides this will be the summer she loses her virginity, too—her interest is piqued when she meets Sammy, an older boy reputed to sleep with just about anyone. Yet Lila's attempts at sexual conquest risk taking her beyond her limits, and into dangerous uncharted territory. 

          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: 7.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryNew Zealand

          One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama
          CountrySingapore, Japan, Taiwan, France
          Duration01:39

          Set in the mid 1990s in Singapore, ILOILO chronicles the relationship between a family and their maid from Ilo Ilo, a province in the Philippines.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
          Duration01:39

            Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
            Duration02:28

            Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:33

            A teenage girl, distraught from her vain attempt to connect with her estranged mother, resorts to cutting herself. When she develops an online relationship with an older woman, she learns to accept her sexuality and the endless solitude of sprawling suburbia.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

            A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredrama, military, history
            CountrySouth Korea
            Duration02:06

            Korea, 1950. A child's vow to take care of his family marks the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning sixty years.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
            CountryUSA

            Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:03

            A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920's.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genredrama, biography, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:10

              Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

              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: 6.4
              Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

              An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

              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: 6.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:26

              A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:00

              A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration02:28

              King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrecomedy, drama, music
              CountryCanada, USA
              Duration01:42

              Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ "Hard Harry". Mark's show, at once thoughtful and profane, becomes an underground hit with students at his high school, inspiring the wrath of his principal and the Federal Communications Commission [FCC].

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryChile, Spain, United Kingdom, France

              Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.




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