20 best movies like Gap Year (2017)

List of the best movies like Gap Year (2017): About Time, We Are the Freaks, Circus Columbia, Billionaire Boy, A Long Way Down, Hunky Dory, Legacy, Daphne, Black Mountain Poets, Summer of '92.

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:03

    The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Serbia
    Duration01:53

    A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:55

    The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:36

    Four lost souls decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When they meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    Musical film about the trials and tribulations of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end of year show.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:06

    What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces, she is witty, funny, the life of the party. Too busy to realise that deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack, and Daphne is forced to confront the inevitability of a much-needed change in her life.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Two professional con artist sisters go on the run and assume the identities of The Wilding Sisters, guest stars of a poetry retreat in the depths of the Black Mountains. A romantic comedy drama about love, crime, spirituality, and soul

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history, sport
    CountryDenmark, United Kingdom, Sweden

    The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:20

    The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium

    Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
    Duration02:28

    Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:34

    After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mom accidentally gets pregnant, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, short
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:14

    Anna lives in her Mum's garden shed making videos with her thumbs. Her Mum wants her to come out but Anna doesn't want to.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, short
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:14

    In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:04

    Frank and Lindsay—two emotionally-broken strangers—meet on the way to a destination wedding. Over the course of the weekend and against all odds, they find themselves drawn together even though they are initially repulsed by one another.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Sweden
    Duration02:00

    The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:03

    In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is given the chance to increase his popularity when a cool American kid moves in next door. Written and directed by Craig Roberts, who also plays the lead role.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:39

    Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda
    Duration01:28

    The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

    “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.




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