20 best movies like Sleepwalking (2008)

List of the best movies like Sleepwalking (2008): Boundaries, The Descendants, Everybody's Fine, Nebraska, Kodachrome, October Baby, Run the Tide, Waves, Thursday Till Sunday, The Fundamentals of Caring.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:19

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: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

    With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

      An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:34

      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: 6.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      OCTOBER BABY is the coming of age story of a beautiful and naive college freshman who discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama
      CountryChile, Netherlands
      Duration01:36

      As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryItaly, Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Sweden
      Duration01:50

      Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen. Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to MARCELINO, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:32

      Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, short
      CountryUSA, France, India
      Duration01:32

      Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:06

      The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryNew Zealand, Japan, USA
      Duration02:07

      The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:55

      After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Robin's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:33

      When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

      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: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
      Duration01:54

      Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

      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: 7.1
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryFrance, Canada
      Duration01:45

      A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Cult classic starring Ralph Macchio as a want-to-be blues guitar virtuoso who seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician Robert Johnson.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:38

      A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
      Duration01:59

      One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:34

      Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

      After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures caused by his father’s antics. Attempts at bonding come to a head as the mismatched duo make their way from Ohio back home to Houston to reunite the family.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:36

      A cab driver is caught between a dysfunctional realtionship between a father and his daughter as he drives them to Calcutta.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:30

      Maryse and her husband are desperate to sell a backhoe sitting abandoned in their suburban yard. Her brother, Benoit, is trapped in endless adolescence, sharing their childhood home with their invalid father. Benoit is enamoured with a single mom named Nathalie, and he's hoping to finally grow up by living with her... but Nathalie's son does not approve. A serious accident at the factory where Maryse works, a strange series of coincidences, and the arrival of a Man claiming to come from the future launch Maryse and Benoit on a life-changing road trip. Following up his acclaimed feature film Continental, a film without guns, filmmaker Stephane Lafleur once again brings us an ensemble of compelling characters, in a story where the ordinary and the fantastic collide

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:08

      When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryCanada

      A small town-teen predicts his friend’s death with startling accuracy and is labelled the “Prophet of Death.” One thing he didn’t see coming? Falling in love - with his best friend’s girl.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, Israel, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:36

      Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:20

      The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryCanada, USA, Denmark
      Duration01:38

      After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself in Copenhagen, the place of his father’s birth. He befriends the youthful Effy, who works in William’s hotel as part of an internship program, and they set off to find William’s last living relative. Effy’s mix of youthful exuberance and wisdom challenges William unlike any woman ever has. As the attraction builds, he must come to grips with destabilizing elements of his family’s sordid past.

      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: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryWest Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

      After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.

      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: 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: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Greece, Brazil

      After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.




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