Drama movies about grandparents

List of the best dramas about grandparents selected by visitors to our site: Saving Mr. Banks, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Gifted, The Big Short, The Book Thief, The Age of Adaline, Lady Bird, Magic in the Moonlight, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Richard Jewell.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, music, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
Duration02:05

Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:50

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:11

    While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:32

    After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

    Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

    Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, "Richard Jewell" is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth. "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing-his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:41

      Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA, India
      Duration01:43

      A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

      A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

        A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:17

        In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
        Duration01:58

        The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

          A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA, Germany

          A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
          Duration01:54

          Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, Canada

          Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:13

          In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:20

          The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:25

          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.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryAustralia, USA
          Duration02:23

          An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

            A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:26

            Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genredrama, musical, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:25

            The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

            A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
            Duration02:04

            Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
            Duration02:40

            A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

            Markimdb: 8.4
            Genredrama
            CountryLebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, United Kingdom
            Duration02:05

            Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

              Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genredrama
              CountryIndia, USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
              Duration02:35

                Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, Argentina
                Duration02:24

                Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genredrama, crime, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:56

                Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:41

                A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genrecomedy, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:29

                A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Germany

                The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

                Markimdb: 6.2
                Genreaction, drama, family, sport
                CountryUSA, China
                Duration02:20

                12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genredrama, adventure, family, biography, history
                CountryUSA

                The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:13

                Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:31

                Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrecomedy, drama, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:07

                George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
                CountryUSA
                Duration03:00

                  A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:46

                    The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.




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