20 best movies like 6 Balloons (2018)

List of the best movies like 6 Balloons (2018): Ben Is Back, Ideal Home, Lawless, Beautiful Boy, Irreplaceable You, Diana, The Big Sick, The Healer, The Family, Being Charlie.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.

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: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:39

A couple who have known each other since 8 are destined to be together until death do them apart.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Madrid, Spain. The bedroom of Sofía, a luxury escort. Her new client, who has introduced himself as Hugo and appears to be an educated businessman, discovers that she has a name tattooed on her leg: Diana. Hugo cannot help asking her who Diana is.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountrySpain, Canada, USA
Duration02:56

The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.

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: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but troubled girl, Eva, and is forced to battle with drugs, elusive love and divided parents.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:57

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:31

    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Denmark, USA
    Duration01:35

    One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA

    A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Morocco, Japan
    Duration02:23

    Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.

    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: 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: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:27

    A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa".

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden
    Duration01:45

    As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryItaly
    Duration00:30

    The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:51

    After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:28

    The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:37

    A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, musical
    CountryUSA

    After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A US Army officer had made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up and he was reassigned to a desk job. Later he was tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. At first all seemed in order then he begins to notice inconsistencies between the testimonies of the witnesses....

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:19

    Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:33

    Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

      A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:32

      The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryFrance, Germany, USA
      Duration02:22

      Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:01

      Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.




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