20 best movies like A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

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Markimdb: 3.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, West Germany
Duration01:29

Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous Florida suburb.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:24

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountrySpain, Mexico
Duration01:45

    A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:30

      When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryJapan, USA
      Duration01:04

      Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:47

      In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:56

      An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryFinland, France, Germany
      Duration01:33

      Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcel's help to hide from the police.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration01:31

      Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, documentary, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

        Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, Germany, USA
        Duration02:25

        Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Sam, a soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, meets Amira when he visits her uncle, Bassam, who had served as Sam's Iraqi translator. Bassam and Sam have a special bond due to their time together in the war. Initially Amira does not trust him because he was an American soldier and her brother was killed by a bomb from American troops in the war. Sam's cousin, Charlie, asks Sam to help him with illegal hedge funds unbeknownst to Sam at the time. Amira is staying with her uncle Bassam since her father died. She sells bootlegged films on the street corner but is forced to stay with Sam after getting busted; immigration officials begin pursuing her. As the film progresses, Sam and Amira fall in love.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until she goes to her apartment and discovers her husband (Corbin Bernsen) married to her gold digging best friend, Kim (Sela Ward).

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Bahrain
        Duration01:27

        A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea—and race is a factor in the trial. So is reporter, Ishmael.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:36

        Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Rev. Biggs prays to God for help - and help arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
        Duration01:56

        A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor (the ex football player Eric Cantona) in this comedy-drama from acclaimed British director Ken Loach.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, India, United Arab Emirates
        Duration02:02

        A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryMexico

        When the bottle she uses to help women gave birth to their children breaks, Mama Santos the midwife announces that something terrible is going to happen in a town from the country side of Mexico, while tension and acts of violence increase. A story of superstition in a small town from the pen of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryWest Germany

        Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.




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