20 best movies like Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

List of the best movies like Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009): Learning to Drive, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Unbelievable Truth, Cool as Ice, Celeste & Jesse Forever, The Half of It, Sleeping with Other People, The Jesus Rolls, Goodbye to All That, Corrina, Corrina.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration01:53

After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who claim he owes them a lot of money.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the dating pool.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:45

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:24

    An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?

    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: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:12

    Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:00

    Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the desert and Jack is left stranded in the small town of Lost Springs. There, Jack meets jazz legend turned mechanic, Doc Bishop (Robert Guillaume), who helps him with his car trouble. Although Jack is far from the stage, he begins to find himself feeling at home in the small town. When he meets local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is more to life than chasing fame and fortune. Doc encourages Jack to explore his true love of music, while Lauren provides the audience he has always wanted. But as Jack realizes this town has more to offer him than the bright lights of the big city, his Vegas past catches up with him -- what unfolds is comedy at the crossroads of life.

    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: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

    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
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryRepublic of Ireland
    Duration01:29

    Two teenage boys cycle 160 km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryChile, Spain
    Duration01:50

    Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryTurkey, Ukraine
    Duration01:30

    Across a language barrier, a Turkish groom-to-be on an engagement party in Kyev meets a Ukrainian that represents the 'other woman' for a marriage there.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Four black students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African-American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America while weaving a story about forging one's unique path in the world.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:38

      When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:32

      British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy, a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera shows up with a surprise of her own.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:36

      Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Stillman, a heartbroken physics student, builds a time machine when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Going back in time, he attempts to save their relationship by fixing every mistake he made—while dragging his best friend along in the process.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work.




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