20 best movies like Our Friend (2021)

List of the best movies like Our Friend (2021): Savannah, Breathe, Being 17, Marjorie Prime, In Search of Fellini, Ingrid Goes West, My Cousin Rachel, The Hero, The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Meddler.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
CountryUSA

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:37

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:55

Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains, nut learns to fight back. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
CountryUSA

Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:46

A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

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: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:35

The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:23

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

The Whole Wide World tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp fiction writer of the 1930's.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:28

As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

    A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
    Duration01:50

    An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    It's New York City in 1981, and various twentysomethings are converging on a New Year's Eve party.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration02:04

    Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:10

    Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, setting out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect. What follows is a love story with a fantastical twist, as the two struggle to figure out how -- and whether -- to escape their never-ending day.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration02:24

    In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her theses on his work, her interest forces hims to address the issues that have been he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:33

    Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children's Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one...but he's afraid that the past will get in the way.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:21

    In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to join the group and Seth’s uptight fiancée insists on tagging along. This raucous road trip comedy features hip-hop star Asher Roth.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration02:45

    Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Portugal

    About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:03

    Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:19

    Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration02:23

    An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:31

    The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets scared and runs away. But when Joan reappears will he take the chance at that happiness, or will he turn his back on it?




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