Wish Drama Movies

List of the best dramatic movies about fulfilling wishes selected by visitors to our site: 50/50, Jane Eyre, Minamata, The Big Short, Spotlight, Five Feet Apart, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Lady Bird, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Hidden Figures.

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

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

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: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

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

    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

      In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

      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: 7.3
      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: 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: 6.8
      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: 7.8
      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: 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
      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: 6.5
      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: 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: 7.5
      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: 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: 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: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, China, Canada
        Duration01:55

        Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

        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, 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, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

        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: 7.3
          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: 7.1
          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: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

          A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
          Duration02:09

          Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

          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: 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: 7.5
          Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
          Duration01:55

          England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

          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: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

          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: 7.5
            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: 7.1
              Genredrama, adventure, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:55

              A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

              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: 7.2
              Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
              CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
              Duration01:00

              Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:44

              A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

              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: 6.2
                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: 7.2
                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: 6.9
                Genrecomedy, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:11

                Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

                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: 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
                Genredrama, family
                CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
                Duration02:15

                The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

                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: 7.1
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
                Duration01:05

                A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genredrama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:57

                The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

                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: 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.




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