20 best movies like Special Correspondents (2016)


List of the best movies like Special Correspondents (2016): Our Brand Is Crisis, Date Night, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Jim Jefferies: Bare, Ashby, Anything Else, Girl Most Likely, The Do-Over, Amateur, 7 Days in Hell.

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

    Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves – and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:28

    The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Smart, crude, and in-your-face, Australian comic/actor/equal-opportunity-offender Jim Jefferies is not for the faint of heart. Whether he is lampooning gun control, auditioning disabled actors, or over-sharing sexual experiences, the FXX "Legit" star proves nothing is out of bounds and even less, off limits. Filmed during the Boston run of his recent stand up tour.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:45

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, short, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:31

    After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

    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: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Set in 1920s New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the first step to Broadway's complete seduction of David, who neglects longtime girl friend Ellen. Meanwhile David puts up with Warner Purcell, the leading man who is a compulsive eater, Helen Sinclair, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Cheech, Olive's interfering hitman / bodyguard. Eventually, the playwright must decide whether art or life is more important.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:45

    A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:50

    Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:42

    An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:59

    Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
    Duration02:31

    Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, musical, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA, Cambodia
    Duration02:29

      A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:26

        70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France
        Duration02:24

        The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

          When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:18

          Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

          A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:17

          Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:35

          An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:11

          A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:30

          As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

          A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

          Markimdb: 8.3
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:19

          Fresh, unflinching and devastatingly honest, Bill Burr lets loose in this feature length comedy special. Burr shares his essential tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse, exposes how rom-coms ruin great sex and explains how too many childhood hugs may be the ultimate downfall of man.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrecomedy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

          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
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:26

          Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:18

          Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

          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: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
          Duration02:13

          In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          Jennifer Carpenter, Kristen Connolly and Alexander Poe star in a comedy about three New Yorkers struggling to uncover the truth behind their romantic entanglements. Disheartened by his latest relationship catastrophe, Graham (Poe) attempts to rekindle the spark with his ex-girlfriend, Laura (Connolly). In the attempt to win her back Graham discovers he has a unique problem: Laura and another one his ex-girlfriends (Carpenter) are dating the same guy.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:33

          On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:30

          New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named Thomas Wolfe falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Together the two men set out to work on a version for publication and a seemingly endless struggle over every single phrase ensues. During this process, Perkins the gentle family man and Wolfe the eccentric author become close – a relationship eyed with suspicion by their wives. When ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ becomes a resounding success, the writer grows increasingly paranoid.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryIndia
          Duration01:58

          A deliciously romantic coming together of Gulrez “Gullu” Qadir a Hyderabadi shoe-sales girl disillusioned with love because of her encounters with dowry-seeking men; and Tariq “Taru” Haidar a Lucknawi cook who can charm anybody with the aroma and flavours of his biryani and kebabs.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, China
          Duration02:35

          In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, comedy
          CountryCanada, United Kingdom
          Duration01:32

          Nelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into Nagel's office to confront him, he finds Nagel's been murdered. Fearing that he will be implicated, Nelson decides to run from the law...despite the fact that the police already know the killer's identity.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:20

          Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellation of needy characters produces constant interruptions.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?




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