20 best movies like From Straight A's to XXX (2017)

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryCanada, Belgium

A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

After attending their friend Elise's (Sudano) wedding to Nate (Bishop) on New Year's Eve, Trista (Hall), a career-­driven talent agent, Viviane (Scott), a successful gossip columnist, and Amaya (Cooper), a struggling actress, make a pact to get married within the year to either a new love or a man waiting in the wings. But the close friends face their own set of challenges - Trista has not gotten over her commitment-­phobic ex-­boyfriend Damon (White), Viviane is secretly in love with Sean (George), the father of her son, and Amaya is desperate to break up her boyfriend Keith's (Sanders) unhappy marriage so they can live happily ever after. Each woman starts the year with high hopes and dreams of what will happen over the next 12 months... but will they all make it to the altar?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
Duration02:11

    Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFinland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
    Duration02:03

    Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, China, Canada
    Duration01:55

    Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

    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
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, USA
      Duration02:11

      In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:31

      The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA

      Part period melodrama, part film noir, part 50s road movie "JOSHUA TREE, 1951" is a portrait of screen legend and outsider icon James Dean as you have never seen him before.

      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: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:05

      A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredocumentary, biography
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:38

      A documentary film about the life of Star Trek's Mr. Spock as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr. Spock for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son, Adam Nimoy.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:13

      In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

      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: 6.7
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryKenya, Судан, South Africa, USA
      Duration01:40

      After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer, he attempts to get embedded with the local Somali pirates, only to quickly find himself in over his head.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryKenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
      Duration01:50

      A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:29

        WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

        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: 7.3
        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: 6.6
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:42

        Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
        Duration01:37

        With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

        Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

        The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:41

        It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama, crime, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:51

        A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. The story of their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the songs that influenced a generation, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and many more.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

        The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:38

          Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

          A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama, music, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
          Duration02:05

          Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:35

          The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:33

          The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
          CountryCanada, United Kingdom

          Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, drama, biography
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:54

          Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film follows the true story of Picard (Del Toro), a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter. He travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux (Amalric), thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountrySpain, Bulgaria, USA
          Duration02:30

          The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, Canada

          The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA

          The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:27

          Based on a true story. Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular med student at Boston University, leads a double life as a brutal and cruel sexual deviant who abuses prostitutes he finds via Craigslist.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genredrama, military, biography
          CountrySpain, USA, Argentina
          Duration02:02

          Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA

          Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl's fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother - which only fed Florence's need to stay in the spotlight.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-tothing dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both




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