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10 Best Movies Like Malcolm

If you loved Malcolm, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#2
The Beaver

The Beaver

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane...

#3
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
I'm Not Here

I'm Not Here

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is....

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Malcolm for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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