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List of the best movies like Proxima (2019): The Trouble with You, Almost Christmas, The African Doctor, Cyrano, My Love, Juanita, Walk. Ride. Rodeo., Synonyms, 55 Steps, Dancing Arabs, Transit.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration02:12
CharactersDogs, Police, Family, Taxi drivers
PlotLove, Robbery, Friendship, Fate, Everyday life
PlaceSea, Beach, Night Clubs
TimeNight
StyleSoulful, Fascinating

Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, China
Duration01:29
CharactersFamily, Alcoholics, Womanizers, Single mothers
PlotLove, Friendship, Death
PlaceRugby
TimeNew Year
StyleLight, Soulful, Fascinating

A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryFrance
CharactersAngels, Family
PlotLove, On real events, Soccer, Adventure, Fight
PlaceVillage, France
StyleCute, Soulful, Fascinating, For men

Seyolo Zantoko is a doctor from Congo who wants to get away from dictatorship and he is hired by the mayor of a small village in the north of France. The locals fear Seyolo and his family as they have never seen African people before, and Seyolo and his family struggle to adapt to this new life. But Seyolo is determined to succeed and to win the trust of the villagers.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:52
CharactersFamily, Writers, Losers, Poets
PlotLove, On real events, Relationship, Obsession, Friendship
PlaceParis, France, Hotels
Time19th century
StylePsychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, For men

Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
CharactersFamily
PlotLove, Adventure, Friendship, Rivalry
PlaceUSA
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Touching

Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
CharactersFamily
PlotLove, On real events, Friendship, Rivalry
PlaceSmall cities
StyleExciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching

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: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Israel, Germany
Duration01:43
CharactersMusicians, Jews
PlotLove, Dancing, Adventure, Fight, Relationship
PlaceUSSR, France
StyleSoulful, By books, Fascinating

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, biography
CountryGermany, Belgium
Duration02:18
CharactersLawyers
PlotLove, Relationship, Friendship, Rivalry, Female friendship
PlaceHospitals
StyleAction, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Serious

55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryIsrael, Germany, France
CharactersTeens, Friends, Losers, Terminally ill
PlotLove, Friendship
PlaceIsrael, Boarding school
StyleTo cry, Touching, Serious

A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryGermany, France
Duration01:46
CharactersMute, Refugees
PlotLove, War, Relationship, Death, Pursuit
PlaceTrains, Paris, France, Hotels
StyleAction, To cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:19
CharactersDogs, Family, Sisters, Old man, Cats
PlotTravel, Friendship
PlaceSchool, Beach, USA, Los Angeles
StyleLight, Soulful, Fascinating, Makes me think, Touching

Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:03
CharactersFamily, Students, Friends, Lovers, Surgeons
PlotLove, Soccer, Gambling, Poker, Relationship
PlaceTrains, Paris, France, Hospitals
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Touching

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: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryDenmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA
CharactersLawyers
PlotLove, Fate
TimeWinter
StyleRomantic, Psychological problems, To cry, Cute, Touching

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountrySpain
CharactersFamily
PlotLove, Friendship, Death
StyleExciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, For men

Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left over thirty years ago. Chiara was just eight years old at the time. She now approaches her mother with an unusual request: to spend ten days together with her.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama
CountrySerbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Surgeons
PlotFate, Debts
PlaceGermany, Serbia
StyleAction, Soulful, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Gloomy

Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:40
CharactersWriters, Journalists, Reporters
PlotFight, Death, Cancer, Fate, Funeral
PlacePsychiatric hospitals, Hospitals, USA, Laboratory
StyleAction, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:34
CharactersFamily, Friends, Fathers
PlotTime travel, Adventure, Travel, Obsession, Fate
StylePsychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, Tense, Touching

Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse Zooey, the three navigate a world changing from analogue to digital while trying to put the past behind them.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19
CharactersFamily, Losers, Unicorns
PlotTime travel, Adventure, Friendship, Happiness, Fate
PlaceUSA
StyleAction, Soulful, Fascinating, Fancy, Touching

A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Japan, Luxembourg
CharactersDogs, Family, Writers, Actors
PlotLove
PlaceFrance
StylePsychological problems, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:42
CharactersArtists, Musicians, Family, Parents
PlotDeath, Fate
PlaceRussia, Hospitals
StylePsychological problems, Heavy, Tense, Touching, Depressive

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still supports him financially. Victor Ginzburg is a famous conductor. His work is his life. He never cared about Mark's feelings and tried to mold his son in his own image. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. Father calls his son by his childhood nickname Birdie, which infuriates the son. Son calls his father Your Majesty, which infuriates the father. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey that leads from hate to love.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:50
CharactersCooks, Single mothers, Poor
PlotDebts
PlacePrison, Women's Prison, France
StyleSoulful, By books, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
Duration01:27
CharactersFriends
PlotDancing, Travel, Passion, Friendship, Mystery
PlaceUSA
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military, music, history
CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania
Duration01:51
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Cats, Singers
PlotWar, On real events, Soccer, Friendship, Snow
TimeNew Year, World War I
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Touching

In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Luxembourg, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
PlaceMountains, Italy
StylePsychological problems, By books, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Touching

Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:28
CharactersFamily, Journalists
PlotLove, Relationship, Friendship, Death, Love triangle
PlaceParis, France, Cemetery
StyleTo cry, Cute, Touching

Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, France, Norway, Denmark
Duration02:00
CharactersDogs, Strong women, Family, Psychologists, Photographers
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Depression, Vacation, Birthday
PlaceMountains, Party, Hotels
TimeWinter
StylePsychological problems, Action, Soulful, Fascinating

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryThailand
Duration01:02
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Geniuses, Family, Friends
PlotLove, On real events, Adventure, Relationship, Money
PlaceSchool, Australia
StyleAction, Fascinating, Serious

Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets the idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can’t get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn’s business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens, Partners
PlotLove, Adventure, Friendship
PlaceTrains
StyleAction, Soulful, Fascinating

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:29
CharactersTeens, Family, Parents, Mothers
PlotLove, Dancing, Time travel, Adventure, Relationship
PlaceItaly, Venice
TimeNight
StyleSoulful, Fascinating

Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him - This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile. This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:30
CharactersSingle mothers, Poor
PlaceFrance
StylePsychological problems, Action, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching

A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.





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