20 best movies like Affluenza (2014)

List of the best movies like Affluenza (2014): The Mountain, The Words, Polar, Crossed the Line, Gangster Land, A Thousand Miles Behind, Circle of Pain, King of Thieves, The Last Vermeer, The Bleeding House.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA

1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:58

    When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A young woman refuses to bow down to the local criminal kingpin who wants to take control of her late mother's flower shop in order to run drugs. However, when he crosses the line, she and her siblings seek revenge.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power. Examine Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A man struggling with grief sets off across California on a solo motorcycle trip.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Following a fighting accident, Dalton Hunt retired from the world of MMA at the top. Unable to outrun his guilt, he lost his family, his title, and his way. But when a crooked promoter lures him back into a fight against the current undefeated champ, Dalton must enlist the aid of an enigmatic trainer to turn him bck into a warrior so he can stand tall and do battle once again.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, crime, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Germany, France
    Duration01:43

    London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive stranger will find redemption does not always come easy.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Waitresses Angela and Jessie dream of leaving their low-rent diner and heading to Galveston, Texas. They soon find themselves on the streets of Dallas, trying to come up with increasingly wild schemes to raise some much-needed cash.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    When Lacey takes a rare break from work for her friend Ava's Christmas Eve wedding, she reconnects with her former flame, Ean. The two decorate the cottage where the newlyweds will spend their honeymoon – a cottage said to bring true love to anyone who stays there – and feel their chemistry return.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a local police officer and a star high-school athlete.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, India
    Duration01:48

    As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    When Lucy’s childhood sweetheart plans to tear down the Gilded Age estate and replace it with a golf course, Lucy fights to preserve the historic mansion at all costs. As Lucy and Duncan set out to find a compromise, they learn that embracing the past may be the key to protecting the future.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their over-sterilized apartment. Ultimately the duo escapes their self-imposed quarantine to head to the wilderness.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:56

    Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Set in Newark during the 1960s race riots between the African-American and Italian communities. The war between the cultural mobs turns especially lethal. Prequel to the TV series The Sopranos.

    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.

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