20 best movies like Swoon (2019)

List of the best movies like Swoon (2019): A Walk to Remember, The Boy Downstairs, Reaching for the Moon, The Hairdresser's Husband, The Lunchbox, Admission, Paradise Kiss, Rushmore, Hollywood Dirt, (500) Days of Summer.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryBrazil
    Duration01:58

    In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a haidresser.

    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: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer, Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:55

    Hyasaka Yukari only wants one thing: to enter the college that her mom wants. One day, she meets an extravagant group that loves fashion. They were searching for a model and Yukari fits their ideal model. From now Yukari will know the world of fashion and modeling, and what she really wants.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUSA, Germany, South Africa

    Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah, joins forces with the scout, Ben, and finds filming locations, extras, lessons with the town officials and house owners, etc. When Cole Masten arrives, they hate each other, but sparks fly. Cole is running from a nasty divorce, yet is captivated by Summer. Summer is dying to leave town to get away from the gossip. This is a great story about Southern customs, a Southern girl, and a Hollywood star who finds his lady.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

      An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryIndia

      Akaash Vani is a romance film directed by Luv Ranjan, and produced by Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak under the banner Wide Frame Pictures. After the cult hit Pyaar Ka Punchnama, AkaashVani is the second film from this producer-director duo.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryAustralia

      After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryWest Germany, France

      A story of love between French student Alain and German high school student Christine.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:48

      Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues-and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico

      Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce Vita’.

      Markimdb: 1.9
      Genremelodrama
      CountryTurkey
      Duration01:52

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      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: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryLuxembourg, France

      The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father's traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance

      Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
      CountryIndia

      Anjali is left heartbroken when her best friend and secret crush, Rahul, falls in love with Tina. Years later, Tina's young daughter tries to fulfil her mother's last wish of uniting Rahul and Anjali.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Former prom king and college freshman Scott returns home for Thanksgiving break and gets dumped by his long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely friendship with former classmate Tori, an ugly duckling who blossomed in her first semester of college, and they embark on an outrageous adventure through their hometown. But when Scott and Tori start falling in love, they realize that a few months away may have changed them more than they realized.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryDenmark, Sweden
      Duration01:37

      Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, family, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

        Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind that visiting her grandparents while her sister tries to meet Christopher Wilde. One night she meets Christopher Wilde. They go an an adventure around Los Angeles and start to like each other. When Jessica returns home, Christopher, on national TV, says he doesn't know her, and never met her.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

          Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryIndia

          Pooja Mathew, a spirited young girl, wants to have a love marriage in her life. Thus, she stops at nothing to impress Giri, who saved her once from a group of unruly men.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountrySweden

          In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
          Duration01:56

          A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryIndia
          Duration01:31

          An unconventional thinker (Shah Rukh Khan) helps a budding cinematographer (Alia Bhatt) gain a new perspective on life.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryBulgaria

          A Frenchman falls in love with a hot temper Bulgarian village girl. Following the call of his heart he starts looking for the village where she lives without knowing the character and the language of the people living there.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountrySweden
          Duration01:27

          After a couple of chance encounters the nightly meetings with Juli become the most important thing in Juan's life. God willing, fantasy can become reality.

          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: 7.4
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Cayman Islands
          Duration01:34

          A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genremelodrama, drama, music
          CountrySweden
          Duration01:59

          Pål dreams about becoming successful with his music, but he has one major obstacle: himself. He's a diamond in the rough, and the only things greater than his musical talent are his obsessions, which constantly get him into trouble. We follow Pål on an emotional journey one summer in Gothenburg where he is thrown between passion and deceit; love, reconciliation and deliverance.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama
          CountryBrazil, Germany

          Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryDenmark, Sweden

          Maggie and Carsten love each other, they have two wonderful children and run their own gourmet restaurant; Malus. They want it all. And they have it all. Almost. They are missing the coveted Michelin Star. It has been their dream, on which they gambled everything to win. One day Carsten receives a letter saying that his wife loves somebody else. But who sent the letter and why? In their continuous passion and pursuit for the ultimate recognition, they forget that the meals of life are best enjoyed together.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryIndia

          While Arjun doesn't want to get married, his parents set up a blind date for him at his place. The story revolves around Arjun, how he falls for the girl he's about to meet, why and how he changed his decision to get married.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

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