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10 Best Movies Like Special Needs

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

#1
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Needs for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#2
Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters

1968★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Needs for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the...

#3
Re-Elected

Re-Elected

2020★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Needs for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July....

#4
Jason X

Jason X

2001★ 4.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Needs for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned t...

#5
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Needs for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#6
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

1957★ 7.2

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

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Made...