20 best movies like A Wedding (2017)

List of the best movies like A Wedding (2017): The Ardennes, Birds of Passage, Wazir, The Teacher, Our Children, Don't Grow Up, Nocturama, Come and Find Me, Never Grow Old, Tied.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, crime
CountryBelgium

A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime
CountryColombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Luxembourg, France

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:08

'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySlovakia, Czech Republic

The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryBelgium, Luxembourg, France, Luxembourg
Duration01:54

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryFrance, Spain

The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:30

In Paris, a motley group of young people engineer a deadly plan to spread shock and awe in the city. Each plays their own role. Then they all hide in a department store, a symbol of the consumerist society they are attacking.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:03

When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, western
CountryRepublic of Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
Duration02:36

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryBrazil, France

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decides to travel the world for one year. After ten months on the road with his backpack full of dreams, immersed at the heart of various countries, he arrives in Kenya determined to discover the African continent. Until he reaches the top of Mount Mulanje, Malawi, his final destination.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:38

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco

The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:23

A tough nightclub bouncer struggling to raise his 8-year-old daughter is forced to go undercover after an unfortunate event.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, crime, biography, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
Duration02:05

The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryFrance, Qatar
Duration01:52

In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration02:25

Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration03:22

Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:55

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island (‘Hashima Island’) to mine for coal, attempt to escape.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Canada

After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia

A battle for power ensues as warring gangters thrive to gain possession of a "black box" that can make them richer than they already are, and an undercover cop intervenes with the help of his sharp intellect and an instinct to kill.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, music, biography, history
CountryFrance, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration02:05

Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter in the quest to perfect her dance. But her encounter with Isadora Duncan, a prodigious young dancer hungry for fame and glory, will precipitate the fall of this icon at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
Duration02:21

A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

A young woman newly returned to her hometown becomes the subject of harassment by a man named Blackway, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord who operates with impunity in this small community on the edge of the wilderness. Forsaken by the local townspeople—and advised by the Sheriff to leave town—Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester and his laconic young sidekick.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France, USA, Germany, Qatar

Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryDenmark
Duration01:59

Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUSA

When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg

A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA, Iceland, France

An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryGermany, Italy
Duration02:16

Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryArgentina, Spain
Duration02:45

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryPhilippines, France, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration02:00

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly, Belgium, France

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:44

An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Senegal, Belgium

Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance

Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryNetherlands, Belgium
Duration01:45

A 15-year-old girl, assigned male at birth, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:38

In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance

Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium

Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of justice, she convinces a leading lawyer to defend him during his second trial, on appeal. Together, they will put up a tenacious fight against injustice.

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: 5.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountrySpain, France, Belgium

A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
Duration02:16

Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryColombia, Denmark, Luxembourg, USA, Uruguay, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, France

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy, USA

In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.

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: 6.5
Genredrama, military, biography
CountryUSA, India
Duration02:26

A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.




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