20 best movies like No (2012)

List of the best movies like No (2012): The Ides of March, Neruda, Mr. Turner, The Way I Spent the End of the World, Recount, The Front Runner, Jimmy's Hall, Truman, The Hammer, The Lady.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryChile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:00

    It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
    Duration02:30

    Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryRomania, France
    Duration01:46

    Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:18

    Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan
    Duration01:49

    Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Thailand
    Duration02:12

    The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, family, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

    The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:19

    At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Spain, France
    Duration02:15

    After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:57

    A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, western, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryGermany, USA, Czech Republic, Italy
    Duration02:03

    During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, biography, history, sport
    CountryTaiwan

    A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
    CountryCanada, USA, Germany
    Duration01:38

    Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:45

    A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, drama, biography
    CountryUSA, China, Canada

    Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Inspired by the true story of Vince Papale, a man with nothing to lose who ignored the staggering odds and made his dream come true. When the coach of Papale's beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time – no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history, sport
    CountryMacedonia, Czech Republic, USA
    Duration01:53

    Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League

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

    The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUSA

    The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryGermany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
    Duration01:53

    HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible odds even before they reach Churchill Downs and the land of Kentucky's blue bloods.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, Mexico, United Arab Emirates
    Duration01:41

    A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:59

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:02

    During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:10

    Based on the incredible true story, The Express follows the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:42

    The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryMexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
    Duration02:00

    Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA

    Tells the incredible true story of Amberley Snyder, a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds after barely surviving a car accident that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, documentary
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece

    The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins(Forest Whitaker), gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs. A very honest look at what can be done with the right people having the desire and fortitude to pick up and




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