20 best movies like Albert Nobbs (2011)

List of the best movies like Albert Nobbs (2011): Rebel in the Rye, Tess, Great Expectations, Jude, Victoria & Abdul, The Danish Girl, The Tree, Mary Shelley, Great Expectations, The Ballad of Little Jo.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration03:06

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:03

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

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: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration02:35

    When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
    Duration01:40

    The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

    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: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryNorway, United Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland

    Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, France
    Duration01:59

    In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
    Duration01:36

      In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Austria, Germany
      Duration02:07

      Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:52

      Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:59

      Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:26

      Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:43

      A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration02:48

      The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self: a woman.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:54

      Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, USA

      Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Republic of Ireland, USA
      Duration01:46

      Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:46

      As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:40

      This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
      Duration01:34

      England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

      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: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:09

      A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryCanada, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, India, Pakistan

      Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Netherlands
      Duration01:37

      Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:37

      Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
      Duration02:15

      Iin 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration02:08

      In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryCanada, United Kingdom
      Duration01:52

      A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, France, Greece
      Duration01:57

      Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man has his daughter's lover hanged. With the help of an old flame, a gambler, the daughter puts into motion a plan to drive her father from his estate.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:32

      After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
      Duration02:35

      In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryPeru, Colombia, France, Germany
      Duration01:40

      A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryChina, France, USA, Hong Kong
      Duration01:35

      Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and band-mate, Chris, with a lot of questions.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

      The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Japan, USA
      Duration01:31

      Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:34

      Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration02:08

      Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.




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