American Movies Motivating Success Movies

List of the best American movies about success selected by visitors to our site: In a World..., Escape, God Don't Make the Laws, Good Mourning, The Color of Time, This Is Where I Leave You, The Playroom, Nostalgia, Hateship Loveship, The Boy.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand. It seems to be just the distraction they need, until the day Paul is kidnapped by human traffickers who need a surgeon to operate on their wounded leader. Kim is left alone in a strange country, trying desperately to find her husband with no proof of what happened. While captive on the gangs' secluded island, Paul is caged with Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), an Englishman being held for ransom. With nothing to do but talk, the two men quickly clash over philosophy, as Malcolm relies on a bold faith in God and Paul believes no god would allow these evils to happen in the world. Paul takes another hit when he finds his patient's condition much worse than he can handle on his own in such primitive conditions... Written by Anonymous (IMDB.com).

Markimdb: 4.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Does time exist when nothing changes? That is the question for the picturesque Village of Rockwell, where time has frozen. Nobody gets sick; nobody ages, and nobody dies due to a tragic bus crash that took the lives of the 1977 undefeated Rockwell High School Basketball Team.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Follows London Clash, a movie star whose world is turned upside down when he must choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing, starring role in a major motion picture.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA

A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
Duration02:21

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Jamie is a New York-based executive recruiter who entices Dylan, an art director from Los Angeles, to take a job at the New York office of GQ magazine. Finding that they have much in common, the two become fast friends. Feeling jaded by a number of broken romances, Dylan and Jamie decide that they are ready to quit looking for true love and focus on having fun. However, complications unfold when the two best pals add sex to their relationship.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA, Canada, Hong Kong

A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, short
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

    A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:16

    The Tough Titty is about to go under after losing a lot of money and gaining no customers. After they bring together their staff for the night to declare bankruptcy and lay offs, little do they know that around them the city is being sieged by the walking dead.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom

    Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea, Hong Kong, China, USA
    Duration02:08

    Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, Greece
    Duration02:38

    The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
    Duration02:00

    When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration04:11

    This thriller follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. As the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his family, suspicions emerge — is he really who he says he is?

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
    Duration02:35

    In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, comedy, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:38

    After accidentally stumbling into his uncle's mysterious "tanning bed", Adam learns the answer to all of his problems - multiple Adams. With his new collection of clones, Adam is hopping on one wild summer ride with an epic splash.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Bulgaria
    Duration01:37

    A giant alligator goes head to head with a giant Anaconda. The town sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-­driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-­phobic ex-­boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?

    Markimdb: 5
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration02:12

      A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:05

      A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      An unexpected inspector drops by a lavish party of a notable family in order to investigate the suicide of a pregnant girl. This breaks the joy and peace of the party which is meant to celebrate a couple's engagement. Every one claims that he does not know the girl. However, the inspector does find something suspicious there with the help of a diary book and a photo. Astonishing truth is gradually revealed - six of the noble family members are closely related to the girl’s death.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.

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