Movies about widows

Movies about widows
List of the best movies about widows selected by visitors to our site: 21 Grams, The Face of Love, North Country, The Secret: Dare to Dream, Room for Rent, A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, The In Between, People Like Us, Collision Course, Wakefield.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, France

    A dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama

    After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her daughter, 15-year-old Samantha. But when a powerful solar flare strikes her flight home, killing the pilot, knocking out the co-pilot and frying all the electronic systems on the plane, it looks like she may not get there. As panic sets in among the passengers, Kate works with flight attendant Jake to manage the growing chaos and tension on the plane as she tries to keep 30,000 tons of steel hurtling through the air at 500 miles per hour. Flying blind, Kate tries to find a way to communicate with air traffic control - one way or another, this plane is coming down. With the passengers' lives on the line, Kate will have to find a way to land safely... or never see her daughter again.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of his dreams but can't figure out how to tell her he's not the trans man she thinks he is.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:46

    San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryCanada, USA

    A young widow and her nine year-old son spend a week at her family’s pear farm in Washington state, where they both fall in love with small town farm life, and she falls for the guy who has been managing the farm.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, India, China, Hong Kong
    Duration02:47

    A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:28

    A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, France, Chile, China, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan’s marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony’s real enemy doesn’t have a prayer.

    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: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, detective, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:40

    After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:19

    Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Dark Blue was an action/drama television series which premiered on TNT on July 15, 2009, at 10 pm. It ended its run on September 15, 2010. The series is set in Los Angeles, California. It revolves around Carter Shaw, the leader of an undercover unit. He is an officer who has dedicated his life to taking down the worst criminals in L.A., and this dedication has cost him his marriage. His team includes Ty Curtis, a newlywed who struggles between his job and his new life; Dean Bendis, an officer who is so deep in his undercover role that his team is no longer sure which side he is on; and Jaimie Allen, a green patrol cop recruited into the undercover unit because of her dark past and criminal skills.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    D.J. Tanner-Fuller is a widow and mother of three. Things become too much to handle, so she asks for help from her sister Stephanie and her best-friend Kimmy.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration02:20

    The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
    Duration02:20

    A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:39

    A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    "Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of his mistress who may have been linked to some drug dealers.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:04

    A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Fonda and Redford star as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower who've lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

    Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryItaly, Spain, Romania, USA

    Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGreece, USA
    Duration02:22

    An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:33

    The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

      A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer together.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A bored teen living in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte "Charlie" Newton, is frustrated because nothing seems to be happening in her life and that of her family. Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle (for whom she was named), Charlie Oakley, is arriving for a visit. But Uncle Charlie may not be the man he seems to be.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.




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