20 best movies like Good bye, Lenin! (2003)

List of the best movies like Good bye, Lenin! (2003): Circus Columbia, Sun Alley, L.A. Story, The Edukators, Night on Earth, Peter's Friends, Meet John Doe, What to Do in Case of Fire?, Beginners, Tilt.

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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: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:41

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Austria
Duration02:07

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration02:09

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:41

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:41

What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryBulgaria, Germany
Duration01:34

TILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere thanks to a gang of adventurous friends?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:29

A luxury hotel. Steaks frizzle, muffintops getting massaged. Clemens (rare) joins the wellness area as a rookie. Lara (well-done) needs to assert herself in the kitchen pack. The elevator brings the two of them together. They encounter each other, until they clash.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany

Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg
Duration01:49

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryGermany, Italy
Duration02:16

Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of them knows is that their lives are already connected through a terrible crime Seeband committed decades ago.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryPoland

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFinland, Germany, France
Duration01:18

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, music
CountryUSA

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Japan
Duration01:25

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:45

A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:59

Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexiting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair with a younger woman. Judith stews, plans, plots and fantasizes, but she can't decide what to do with her life until she goes out to a night club to see singer Liz Bailey (Queen Latifah), who is full of advice on life and love. While out on the town, Judith is suddenly kissed by a total stranger, which opens her eyes to new possibilities ... which is when she notices Pat (Danny De Vito), the elevator operator in her building.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, USA
Duration02:07

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, USA
Duration02:26

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain, France
Duration01:52

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebecca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:30

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

An uninterrupted rehersal of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

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

Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider soon becomes infatuated with her, and enjoys the legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of his own issues, including alcoholism, diabetes and a difficult relationship with his daughter. Intent on helping Archie get past his problems, she turns to her dying father for advice.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryRussia, USA
Duration02:00

A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Australia
Duration01:37

Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany

Lolle's love life in Berlin is as complicated as ever. After the story with Sven, her second cousin, was over, she got together with her best friend Hart and the two are about to get married. That is, if Sven doesn't ruin things.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

    After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
    Duration01:36

      In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:30

      Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:46

        Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.




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