20 best movies like Out of Africa (1985)

List of the best movies like Out of Africa (1985): The Danish Girl, I Dreamed of Africa, Ryan's Daughter, Anna and the King of Siam, Black Beauty, Bright Star, Diana, The First Grader, The Good Lie, Saving Mr. Banks.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration02:35

    When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

    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: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration03:12

    An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

    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: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, France
    Duration01:59

    In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
    Duration01:52

    During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.

    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: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryKenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
    Duration01:50

    A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
    Duration02:05

    Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:15

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, India, Pakistan

    Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryNetherlands
    Duration02:10

    Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant...

    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: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryLuxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration04:03

    Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.The winner of four Oscars, this epic saga of love, greed and betrayal stars Elizabeth Taylor as the passionate and ambitious Egyptian queen who's determined to hold on to the throne and seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison). When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony (Richard Burton), who vows to take power -- but Caesar's successor (Roddy McDowall) has other plans.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:01

    The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration02:05

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:15

    A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

    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: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration02:03

      The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA

      Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

      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: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
      Duration02:15

      Iin 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat, who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:48

      This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:40

      Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:44

      A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:43

      A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryItaly, France, Belgium

      Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, Canada

      Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:37

      The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryGermany
      Duration02:21

      A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Puerto Rico

      FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:28

      The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

      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: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom, France, USA, Germany
      Duration01:32

      Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:46

        The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:25

        A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:26

        Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.




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