20 best movies like Absurdistan (2008)

List of the best movies like Absurdistan (2008): Of Horses and Men, Seoul Searching, Tokyo Fiancée, Undertaking Betty, About Businessman Foma, Flakes, Mistress America, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Vodka Lemon, Twice Upon a Yesterday.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIceland, Germany, Norway
Duration01:21

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, South Korea, China

In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Japan, Belgium, Canada
Duration01:41

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
Duration01:53

A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia

Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryMexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
Duration01:30

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, who accustomed to intimacy with whores since childhood, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryArmenia, France, Italy, Luxembourg
Duration01:30

Hamo, a handsome 60-year old man, lives alone in a Romenian village with one of his daughters and his granddaughter. He also owns a retirement of seven dollars per month, a closet, an old russian television set and a military costume.A letter from his second daughter arrives from France.A rumor runs through the village: the envelope would be full of money...But Hamo doesn't think but of the beautiful unknown girl from the cemetery.

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
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

After a one night stand Deb wakes up in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:37

    15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany

    Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:12

    Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA

    Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryAustria, Luxembourg, Germany
    Duration01:36

    A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryBelarus, Germany, USA, Russia
    Duration01:09

    Young Evelina has a law degree, but her dream is to travel to the USA and earn a living as a professional DJ. But it’s 1997 and the girl is living in post-Soviet Minsk...

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:04

    Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, military
    CountryRomania, Germany, Belgium
    Duration01:25

    Set during World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be all shot by the Nazis the morning after. There's no way to find the guilty one, but there's Ipu, the madman of the village, whom they promise a hero's funeral if he will claims responsibility and agrees to die in their place. He must decide, and time is running out.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryFrance, Greece
    Duration01:28

    After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
    Duration01:51

    Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryItaly, France, Belgium
    Duration01:18

    A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:25

    The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    A girl who always tends to fall in love with the wrong guy meets one who believes the world is coming to an end next Tuesday.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

    Markimdb: 1.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia

    Kakha fell for the beautiful Sophia, but in order to get to her heart, he needed to overtake the brand new BMW Ruslan on his “penny” and score a friendship with Sergo. What will Kakh choose - love or friendship?

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg

    The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot and convinces the town to build a runway to get him home.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySweden

    For Sebastian Silverberg life is all about his appearance, partying and his enormous ego. Things are going smoothly when an accident leaves him blind, forcing him to re-evaluate his life and to seek meaning beyond appearances.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A successful, big city girl returns to her small town roots after a family emergency. Once there she goes on a soulful journey to reconnect with family and friends and finds romance along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter in a Paris hotel room, to a fateful phone call-an unforgettable portrait of a relationship emerges.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:08

    Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:29

    In a snowed-under village lives the shepherd Ivan Sergeyevich. Every morning he cleans up the manure and feeds the cows. Day after day goes by in this way. One winter morning a stranger arrives in the village in an expensive car and offers Ivan Sergeyevich good work in the city. Ivan Sergeyevich agrees with pleasure. The stranger takes Ivan Sergeyevich away from the village to the city...

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    This is a fast-paced comedy about a 40-year-old gay man who finds himself dating two equally lovable men - a secure 50-year-old who came out later in life, and an adventurous 30-year-old who wasn't looking for a relationship. What he doesn't find out right away is that the two men are, in fact, father and son. And as they say, wackiness ensues.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:36

    Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the uncredited part of Daphne. It is set in Los Angeles, California. Shot in 2003, the film failed to find a distributor and was released direct-to-video in 2005.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:00

    Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt (so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise), hilarity ensues.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, history
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:18

    It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Israel

    In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia

    Abhay Singh runs a syndicate of kidnapping greedy grooms, who demand dowry in Bihar’s Madhopur. He then, forcefully marries them off to the girl, calling it a ‘surprise party’. But when his childhood sweetheart Babli re-enters his life, he must choose between love and his long-term ambitions.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:32

    British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are fascinated when friends whose adult son has recently moved away from home reveal they hired an expert to arrange the matter and couldn't be happier with the result.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, comedy, biography
    CountryGermany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:41

    A village so small all the residents not only knows each other, but also can easily recognize the neighbor's cow face a frightful news. It was announced on TV that the most powerful coronal mass ejection in the Earth's history would take place. Humankind has only 24 hours left. The world runs mad in different ways getting ready for the apocalypse, and a unique local scenario of waving the life goodbye is inverted in the village. Tables are put together, pies are baked, and some gather strength and courage to make the most important decisions of their lives... But what about the doomsday? It just doesn't arrive. Oops, got it wrong! The situation is heating up. Everybody realize they can't go on as they did before.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is secretly a lesbian, battles drugs. Tori is the valedictorian of her class, but, on the eve of graduation, she decides to experiment with drugs for the first time.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight."




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