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10 Best Movies Like In Character

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

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#1
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

2014★ 7.2

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

Jack is born with his heart frozen solid on the coldest day in history. A wise midwife saves him by replacing it with a cuckoo clock. Now Jack must abide by three rules to keep his...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#3
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#6
The Truman Show

The Truman Show

1998★ 8.2

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

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show....