20 best movies like Ondine (2009)

List of the best movies like Ondine (2009): Like Crazy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Don't Come Knocking, Seven Pounds, Gas Food Lodging, Waiting for Forever, Black Beauty, The Prince of Tides, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Atonement.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

Markimdb: 8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
Duration02:02

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.

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

A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:28

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, India, United Arab Emirates
Duration02:02

A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:00

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

    A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:38

      An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, India, USA

      A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result. Phillips had helped many people, and when Merrick learns Phillips' secret, to give selflessly and in secret, he tries it in a ham-handed way.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:16

      In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:13

      After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash, Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and realize that the two were having an affair and they must figure out all the details.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
      Duration02:40

      A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany

      A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:39

      Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

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

      Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:54

      Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassie, while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA

      Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Mexico, Argentina
      Duration01:47

      A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryChina, France, USA, Hong Kong
      Duration01:35

      Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:11

      C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA
      Duration01:49

      An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

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