20 best movies like Bartleby (2001)

List of the best movies like Bartleby (2001): Listen Up Philip, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Damsel, The Red Squirrel, The Square, Birdman, She's Funny That Way, Slipstream, Sweet Movie, A Man Called Ove.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration01:48

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

The Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective, music
CountrySpain

Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while..

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, Germany, France, Denmark, USA
Duration02:04

A satirical drama reflecting our times — about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person’s need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:33

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryFrance, West Germany, Canada

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySweden
Duration02:04

Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. As locals start to disappear, it becomes apparent that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:43

    An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:59

    Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:25

    A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Chile

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryRomania, USA, Italy, Poland, France
    Duration01:50

    A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:27

    A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:44

    A sleazy politician sends an agent after his ex-fiancee, who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

      A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the "friendship," Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behavior.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Bahrain
      Duration01:27

      A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:31

      Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a small-town sheriff and begins a romance with spirited bush pilot Meg Galligan). But when Meg's father turns up dead, Burns finds himself thrust into the limelight of a dangerous murder investigation.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark
      Duration01:53

      Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration01:46

      A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

      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: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

        A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective, military
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:54

        Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu star in director Jean-Paul Rappenau's amusing farce set on the eve of World War II, which follows the intersecting lives of four Parisians as they cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. As the French government braces for impact, the lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genredrama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:11

        A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, Germany, USA
        Duration02:25

        Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

          Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:36

          The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.




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