20 best movies like Long Live Freedom (2013)

List of the best movies like Long Live Freedom (2013): Les Papas du dimanche, Grassroots, Bright Days Ahead, Four Bags Full, Godard Mon Amour, White as Milk, Red as Blood, The Devil and the Ten Commandments, The Terrace, Castello Cavalcanti, The Salt of Life.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:26

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general election. Based on a true story.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryFrance, Italy

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryFrance
Duration02:02

During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later gets married.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:42

Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Italy

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:40

Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama, short
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration00:08

Taking place in 1955 in Italy, “Castello Cavalcanti” follows Jason Schwartzman as race car driver Jed Cavalcanti who suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:24

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Italy

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:56

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration02:08

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever text message or phone call they will receive during the evening - and all hell breaks loose.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:45

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama, history
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:18

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

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: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:27

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:50

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

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: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:40

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration01:37

When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:40

Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryBelgium, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
Duration02:17

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:43

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:08

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:41

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Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:45

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. Along the way, they end up knowing each other and entering each other's lives. A twist at the end puts everything into perspective.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:34

When the little haberdasher Arras discovers she's won 18 million in the lottery and can now afford anything she wants, she has only one fear: losing the small joys of life made simple it cherishes above all. But fate is obstinate, and this is giving too long this good fortune will trigger it, despite herself, a hurricane that will change everything. Everything except her.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryItaly

Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly, France, Spain
Duration01:36

Sister Germana, a beautiful woman who took the vows following the death of her fiancé Guido, is forced to return from Libya, and becomes the mother superior in a hospital in Lombardy. A young Communist, pretending to be sick, has established himself in the hospital where he has been for some time now, though he tries to make himself useful in whatever way he can. Realizing that the nun does not tolerate his presence, the young man leaves the hospital, and in order to make a living, busies himself as a ‘nurse’ in the town. During the course of a strike, he is wounded. He is brought to the hospital where he is reconciled with the mother superior...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:43

After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:37

A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance

Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:46

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

Mussolini reappears in Rome 72 years after his death, finding a Country still full of problems like racism and hate for politicians. Misguised for an actor, he sides with a young filmmaker and starts traveling along Italy to reconquer it.

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: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:57

Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCroatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.




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