20 best movies like Days of Darkness (2007)


List of the best movies like Days of Darkness (2007): Nine Lives, Tokyo!, Rough Magic, Drop Dead Fred, Sink or Swim, Looking for Eric, Pete's Christmas, The Healer, Holy Motors, Ruby Sparks.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryFrance, China, Canada
Duration02:25

A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryFrance, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Duration01:47

Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by Gondry (France), Carax (France) and Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and trans-/super- natural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.

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: 5.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:43

When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:56

40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
Duration01:56

A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor (the ex football player Eric Cantona) in this comedy-drama from acclaimed British director Ken Loach.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, Canada

An overlooked middle child finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he realizes his family's terrible Christmas day keeps repeating. As the only one experiencing the day over and over, he decides to use his unique gift to give the holidays a makeover and his family a Christmas they will never forget.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountrySpain, Canada, USA
Duration02:56

The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:55

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

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
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

      A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:33

      In the beginning of the 20th century, five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:31

      A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration02:01

      Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:52

      Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

      Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.

      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: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
      Duration02:16

      Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:40

      Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:29

      Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once remarkable Emporium.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryItaly, France

      Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:25

      A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:47

      He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meagre funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true. If only…

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      The story is about Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies and is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:36

        Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrefantasy, comedy, family
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:42

        Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it isn't the cure-all she had hoped for.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration01:38

        Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:28

        A strange and destructive relationship develops between a chef and her neighbor, a former child actress.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

        After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryFrance, Belgium, South Korea
        Duration02:52

        A man tries that his wife fall in love with him again, after to wake up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryFrance

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        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:30

        When Nénette (Josiane Balasko) discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul (Michel Blanc). Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama, family
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:44

        Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo, born deaf, go on holiday in Provence with their grandfather, Paul "Oliveron" they never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holidays they dreamed, especially their father announced yesterday that he was leaving the house. In less than 24 hours, it is the clash of generations between teenagers and a grandfather they believe psycho. A wrong. Because the turbulent past will resurface and Paul Seventies will land deep in the Alpilles. During this summer tormented both generations will be processed one by the other.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration03:06

        Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.

        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: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryFrance

        Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:54

        A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryBelgium, Germany, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA
        Duration02:18

          Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons -- women and alcohol -- and rediscovers his writing voice.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, Sweden
          Duration01:55

            Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryFrance, Italy, USA
            Duration01:45

            A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:40

            After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.




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