20 best movies like Rust and Bone (2012)

List of the best movies like Rust and Bone (2012): A Promise, Declaration of War, Amour, Just a Sigh, 3 Hearts, Goodbye First Love, Chaos, Mr. Jones, The String, Children of a Lesser God.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:38

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:40

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Austria, Germany
Duration02:07

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Republic of Ireland

In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:40

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Germany
Duration01:50

A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Egypt

Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer, handles this neighborhood with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif, brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor. Green with envy, Hatem comes between. He wants Nour for himself. He whipsaws her and turns her life into a nightmare. The story of a frustrated love like Choubra experiences some since the mists of time.

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.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Tunisia, Belgium

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

James, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf, falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.

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: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy
Duration02:40

It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryGermany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration01:56

The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

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: 6.5
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration02:05

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

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: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryBelgium, France
Duration01:35

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
Duration02:35

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryFrance
Duration01:39

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

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: 7.7
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective, music
CountryFrance, Poland, Norway
Duration01:38

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium

In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed into a passionate love affair. However, the couple's romance becomes an ugly power struggle when social class and age distinctions begin to bubble toward the surface.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryTurkey
Duration01:58

Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time... This accident is the threshold of the coincidences that bring Ozgur and Deniz together. They come across each other in Ankara several times during their childhood and youth. Each intersection has a butterfly effect, resulting in drastic changes in their lives. They sometimes cause disasters, sometimes miracles. However, they can never be together. Whatever it is that brings them together, manages to build a transparent wall between them. Until they come across each other again in Istanbul, 25 years later... --Anonymous (imdb)

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: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryFrance, Germany, Czech Republic
    Duration01:56

    A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:30

    After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryIndia, France, Germany, USA, Canada
    Duration01:44

    A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryChina
    Duration01:26

    Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he is.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo, is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina, has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for a TV show

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryNorway

    A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.

    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: 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: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, France, Greece
    Duration01:57

    Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, France

    French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.

    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: 5.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:46

    As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryBelgium, Netherlands
    Duration01:51

    The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:38

    Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love. The film, like a dream, flows back and forth between the past and present, often asking us to fill the deliberate jumps in time.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, the big one that marks a life forever.




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