20 best movies like A United Kingdom (2016)

List of the best movies like A United Kingdom (2016): Freeheld, Southside with You, Anthropoid, Victoria & Abdul, Suffragette, The Duchess, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, Tulip Fever, A Prince for Christmas, The Last Five Years.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:39

New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
Duration02:24

In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration02:45

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration02:35

    Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
    Duration01:45

    A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:33

    Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:04

    An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A prince from Europe meets a charming waitress when he travels to America during the Christmas holiday to escape an arranged marriage.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:33

    Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:43

    Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

    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: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous and felt same adventurous nature in this charismatic poet, Dylan Thomas, also.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryPoland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:10

    From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:28

    King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, Italy, Germany
    Duration02:39

    The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:09

    The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, history
    CountryFrance, Poland
    Duration02:20

    Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Thailand
    Duration02:12

    The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
    CountryUSA

    Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:04

    In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:30

    A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, USA
    Duration01:40

    A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:10

    In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryDenmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
    Duration02:17

    A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:35

    The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:40

    From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria. Packed with drama, romance, breath-taking cinematography, lavish costumes and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, and Rupert Friend, The Young Victoria has captivated British audiences, and is the film that Company magazine called “an epic British film, which will sweep you up in her remarkable story.”

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:34

    Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:26

    Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor - the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration02:05

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

    A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:10

    Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, France
    Duration02:21

    During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

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