20 best movies like A Touch of the Sun (1956)

List of the best movies like A Touch of the Sun (1956): Guns Akimbo, Hail, Caesar!, Scott and Sid, The Entire Universe, Love's Kitchen, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Peel, Brakes, Greg Davies: You Magnificent Beast, Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany

An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. Miles must fight heavily armed Nix and also save his kidnapped ex-girlfriend.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, detective, music
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
Duration02:31

Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

From their first encounter as teenagers in high school, Scott and Sid seem unlikely friends. Scott is a shambolic dreamer, intent on carving out his own path in life and holding up a metaphorical middle finger to anyone who tries to stop him. He is a quintessential troubled teen: on his fifth high school by the age of fifteen, alienated from his peers, crippled by recurring nightmares and disliked by his own foster parents. Sid, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be liked. An unconfident, awkward recluse through circumstance, Sid's impoverished and dysfunctional background leave him no time for friends and no money for hobbies.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, musical
CountryUnited Kingdom

Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy and musical extravaganza.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:29

Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet restaurant. His food catches the eye - and taste buds - of beautiful American food critic Kate Templeton (Claire Forlani) and they soon both write a recipe for love that leaves both their hearts - and their stomachs - in full.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, documentary, crime, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:27

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:41

After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Brakes is a dark, improv-based ensemble comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couple's relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Greg is back with his first stand up show in four years, and biggest ever tour, You Magnificent Beast.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, documentary
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:53

Jimmy Carr is the hardest working comedian in Britain. He has now played to over one million people on tour and sold over a million DVDs. He returns with the release of his most outrageous stand up set to date, Making People Laugh, featuring over two hours of material that’s too rude for TV. The new DVD shows Jimmy at his very best and contains over 250 jokes. Here’s a small selection: “The first guy who persuaded a blind person they needed sunglasses, he must have been a hell of a salesman.” “Liverpool is the only city in Great Britain where JD Sports, has an evening wear department.” “A great way to warm up pensioners in winter.. is cremation.” “My girlfriend recently had a phantom pregnancy. And now we have a little baby ghost.”

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

In 1990s Scotland, a group of Catholic school girls get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Duration02:38

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

P.J`s in a pickle, his parents are missing, he is a spectacular failure at running their bakery, 'Cup Cake', and he is up to his neck in debt with the local loan-Sharks. To add to his misery, he has been duped into marriage by their impossibly tanned and serially jilted sister, Kitty. Enter Gala, a mysterious, beautiful artist with a few tricks of her own. P.J. , a robot-obsessed dreamer and his hapless friends, aided by the ever resourceful Gala, set about cooking up the revival of 'Cup Cake's' fortunes, and spicing up P.J`s love life along the way.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:44

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:41

A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. Suddenly this regular group of friends is battling to survive as the entire human race is threatened by the alien army hovering ominously above.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration03:30

Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:33

A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryBulgaria, United Kingdom, Hungary, Sweden
Duration01:44

A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims




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