Movies Like The Lady Edison

If you liked The Lady Edison, a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Joy (2015)
★ 6.6/10
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
2
Modern Inventions (1937)
★ 6.8/10
Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a…
3
Undertaking Betty (2002)
★ 6.1/10
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
4
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
★ 7.5/10
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
5
Robots (2005)
★ 6.5/10
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of…
6
Yellow Mirror (2026)
★ 8.1/10
A defective lamp reveals a heartbreaking truth about what Homer believes is reality, and an AI-powered tablet befriends and controls Maggie. The Simpsons struggle to find the light through two dark tales of the curious…
7
Cat Napping (1951)
★ 7/10
Tom has plans to take a nice long nap in a hammock, but Jerry has gotten there first and is snoozing happily, so the two fight it out to see who gets to sleep there.
8
The Crash (2026)
★ 6.8/10
A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.
9
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions (2002)
★ 7.3/10
Wallace and Gromit try out ten of their latest inventions—which rarely work as planned.
10
Percy (2020)
★ 6.7/10
Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson…
11
Our Wife (1931)
★ 7.1/10
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to…
12
Firelight (1998)
★ 6.7/10
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child of an anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth, she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later, she is…
13
Axcellerator (2019)
★ 6.2/10
When a young car thief stumbles on the invention of the century (and the various government agencies that want to kill him), he and a sassy checkout clerk named Kate have the adventure of a lifetime.
14
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
★ 7.9/10
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
15
The Stepford Wives (1975)
★ 6.7/10
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
16
JOY (2024)
★ 6.9/10
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
17
Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6/10
The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of…
18
Pollyanna (1960)
★ 6.9/10
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
19
The Castle (1997)
★ 7.1/10
The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport…
20
Two for the Money (2005)
★ 6.1/10
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.