Movies dramas about forbidden love

List of the best films dramas about forbidden love according to visitors: Five Feet Apart, Water for Elephants, Atonement, Dirty Dancing, Jane Eyre, The Illusionist, The Best of Me, The Great Gatsby, End of Watch, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

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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: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

    In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:00

    As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:00

    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic
    Duration01:50

    With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

    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: 7.2
    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: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

      Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

      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
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
      Duration01:38

      A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

      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: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

        A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

          Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.

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

            The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:42

            Adequacy is relative.Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling and a personal couch doctor, Vitalik looks as adequate as a human can possibly be. Wait till he drinks and drives himself into depression, and after that falls in love with an under-age girl living next door. Whos adequate now?

            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, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:35

            After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, western, crime
            CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
            Duration01:56

            Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

            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: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography, history
            CountryUSA, Japan
            Duration02:30

            A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

            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: 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: 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: 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: 7.9
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

            A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
            Duration02:26

            A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

            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.

              Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
              CountryUSA

              Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

              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: 7.9
              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: 7.7
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:38

              A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

              The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

              Markimdb: 7.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:46

                The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

                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: 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: 7.8
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
                Duration02:09

                Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:42

                A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

                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.

                  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: 7.8
                  Genremelodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA

                  Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

                  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: 7.1
                  Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:41

                  A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:45

                    An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

                    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: 6.9
                    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
                    CountrySpain
                    Duration02:03

                    Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from upper-middle class that is educated in goodness and innocence . Hache (Mario Casas) is a rebellious boy, impulsive, unconscious, has a appetite for risk and danger embodied in endless fights and illegal motorbike races, the limit of common sense

                    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: 7.3
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:34

                    Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine's narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone's lives, especially her own.




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