Charly

Sep 23, 1968

1h 43m

★ 6.4

A love story that begins with an incredible experiment!

Overview

An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Science Fiction

Production Companies

ABC Pictures

Cinerama Releasing Corporation

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Cast

Charlie Gordon

Cliff Robertson

Alice Kinian

Claire Bloom

Dr. Anna Straus

Lilia Skala

Dr. Richard Nemur

Leon Janney

Mrs. Apple

Ruth White

Bert

Dick Van Patten

Gimpy

Edward McNally

Hank

Barney Martin

Joey

William Dwyer

Paddy

Dan Morgan

Young Woman (uncredited)

Marianna Case

Tap Dancer (uncredited)

Leon Collins

The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.

6.1

Return of the Fly

Jul 22, 1959

Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

6.0

The Asphyx

Dec 5, 1972

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

5.2

Our Earthmen Friends

Apr 18, 2007

What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.

5.0

Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque

Jan 1, 1919

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

3.4

Monstrosity

Sep 1, 1963

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

6.4

Darkman

Aug 24, 1990

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

5.3

Repli-Kate

Jan 29, 2002

A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who loves, beer, football, and frat parties.

7.5

Johnny Got His Gun

Aug 4, 1971

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

5.5

Strange Behavior

Oct 16, 1981

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

7.0

Re-Animator

Oct 18, 1985

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

6.9

Noi the Albino

Feb 28, 2003

17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.

7.4

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Sep 13, 2006

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

3.9

Malignant

Oct 4, 2013

After the death of his wife, a grieving man becomes the victim of a horrific experiment to cure his addiction.

6.6

Brother of Sleep

Sep 8, 1995

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

7.8

Awakenings

Dec 4, 1990

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

7.4

The Fly

Aug 15, 1986

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

6.1

The Philadelphia Experiment

Oct 5, 1984

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

0.0

37-73

Jan 1, 1974

As powerful and complex as is AKRAN, 37-73 is more taut, richer in associative meaning .... 37-73 is about dreams, about memory and its associations with nightmare and magic.

6.5

Golden Door

Sep 22, 2006

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.