20 best movies like Simon Birch (1998)

List of the best movies like Simon Birch (1998): Dad, Crooklyn, Wide Awake, Martian Child, Ice Princess, Lemonade Mouth, The Adventures of Huck Finn, 10,000 Saints, Black Beauty, The Human Comedy.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA

The tale of a ten-year-old boy in a Catholic school who, following the death of his beloved grandfather, embarks on a quest to discover the meaning of life.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:38

With the help of her coach, her parents, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school elite.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney presents The Adventures of Huck Finn, starring Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns), it's the unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:28

    The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

    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: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiancé.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
    Duration01:36

    Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of "Rambo: First Blood", Lee plans to make cinematic history by filming his own action-packed video epic. Together, these two newfound friends-turned-budding-filmmakers quickly discover that their imaginative ― and sometimes mishap-filled ― cinematic adventure has begun to take on a life of its own!

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration02:06

    Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
    Duration02:15

    The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, family, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Four-year-old Colton shares the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth... things he couldn't possibly know.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

      A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom
      Duration01:26

      A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

        A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the recommendation of his advisers. Stacks believes that he's Annie's guardian angel, but the plucky youngster's confidence and sunny outlook may mean that Annie will save Will instead.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        A young teenage girl, Katie, can not snap out of her depression after losing her mother. Katie has lost interest in school, her friends, and gymnastics. All that changes in the summer when she is asked to monkeysit Gibby, her science teacher's Capuchin monkey. Taking care of the monkey changes her life in a big way. Gibby's happy-go-lucky personality renews Katie's zest for life. Gibby helps her with gymnastics, renewing friendships (including finding a potential boyfriend) and overcoming her nemesis, a mean girl who is out to beat Katie at everything.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration02:33

        Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        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.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:27

        Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
        CountrySweden, Denmark

        The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other child's name is Annika. She is a rough girl, with many problems. The three of them do not get along, and Yngve is a true dictator to the children's eyes. However, when the children discover that their new guardian has a crush on their teacher (Cecilia Nilsson), they do what they can to bring the two together. Soon enough, the three will discover that they have a lot more in common than they previously imagined, and together they can make their lives worth living again. This is a sweet story about life in Sweden in the mid 1900's. It is about family, love, hate, innocent friendship that we all can relate to, and much, much more...

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama, family
        CountryUSA

        Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrecomedy, drama, family
        CountryIndia

        A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony, take on the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy, drama, family
        CountryFrance, Greece
        Duration01:28

        After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional vacuum since the death of their own three year old boy. Willie makes friends with the local 9-year-old tomboy Billie Pike, who teaches him to be comfortable with himself. When Willard gains a handle on his own emotions, he can now help Lily and Ben to connect, overcome grief and rediscover themselves.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family
        CountryUSA

        When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.




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