20 best movies like Citizen Kane (1941)

List of the best movies like Citizen Kane (1941): Limitless, Steve Jobs, Marguerite, Rebel in the Rye, The Social Network, Like for Likes, World of Tomorrow, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Dinner, Ingrid Goes West.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:45

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:31

    Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryFrance, Czech Republic, Belgium
    Duration02:05

    Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.

    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: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:10

      A notoriously shrewish TV drama writer and a Korean wave star who fight like cats and dogs every time they meet; a spinster flight attendant landlady and a nosy chef tenant who build a sense of camaraderie; a genius relationship-virgin composer who harbors a secret admiration for a scatterbrained producer. As they crash-land into each other's lives, will there be love?

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:05

      A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, USA
        Duration01:40

        A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration02:23

        An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryHungary, United Kingdom
        Duration01:48

        Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, cartoon, crime, biography
        CountryPoland, United Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, Netherlands
        Duration02:17

        The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
        Duration01:44

        Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama
        CountrySpain, France
        Duration01:26

        Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrecomedy, documentary, crime, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:27

        Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

          Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genredrama, history, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:00

          A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

          A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA, China

          An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genremelodrama, drama, history
          CountryCzech Republic, France, USA
          Duration01:49

          North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryCanada

          A depressed dentist in mid-life crisis tries to learn why one of his happiest patients suddenly commits suicide, and a dark comedic adventure ensues.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

            The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
            CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg
            Duration01:13

            A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:52

            A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryCanada, Spain
            Duration01:28

            A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:27

            The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genredrama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:15

            The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:00

              Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:40

              A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.

              Markimdb: 5.6
              Genrethriller, drama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:16

              Led by their fellow preppie friend Joe Hunt, a group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genredrama
              CountryFrance, Germany, Luxembourg
              Duration02:04

              A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrecomedy, drama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

              An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:00

              Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:58

                When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

                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.

                Markimdb: 6
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:57

                Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryFrance, Poland, Belgium
                Duration02:08

                Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.

                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: 6.2
                Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:48

                In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:58

                Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genredrama
                CountryGreece, Germany
                Duration01:41

                Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
                Duration01:57

                For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, cartoon, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:02

                Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

                Markimdb: 8
                Genredrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration03:09

                An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.




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