20 best movies like Tempest (1928)


List of the best movies like Tempest (1928): American Me, The Next Three Days, The Jesus Rolls, Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, Middleground, Hateship Loveship, The Free World, We Are Your Friends, Queen & Country, Forever My Girl.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13

    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryRussia, USA
    Duration02:14

    Him and her. A husband and a wife staying in a cozy hotel where you can come for just a couple of days with a risk to get stuck forever. It is so easy to get trapped in the daily routine. Indeed, nothing is more permanent than the temporary. Their time is like a flat circle. He has his phone calls and business meetings. She is wrapped in her dreams and doubts. All reactions are predictable, all conversations are learnt by heart. An endless LP record of life keeps playing again and again repeating itself. But a few things can break this tune, like a scratch on the record, a crack on a wine glass, a sudden glance or a meeting with a stranger. And then you know: tomorrow will come soon. Any moment something can go wrong, throw you off course, and force you to make a choice.

    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: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration03:21

      Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A U.S. soccer star suffers a career-threatening injury in the run-up to the World Cup, and during his recovery, embarks on an epic romance with a Russian single mom.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:35

      The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:24

      In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:09

      Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:47

      Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      British Naval Officer fights pirates on Madagascar.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classmates. This all changes when a pen-pal school project connects her with convict Howard. Anita secures Howard's parole and violently squares off against Rooney after he rapes her. Soon enough, the gun-crazy teen is on the run with Howard, with his parole officer in pursuit.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:01

      The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Russia
      Duration01:48

      Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A prison warden's wife is seduced into helping a notorious killer escape.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration03:28

      Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      This adult comedy follows six characters, three men and three women from a cross-section of social groups, as they play sexual power games. When an affair fires up between 2 of the married characters, it sparks a chain of consequences for all of them, including one of the wives falling for another woman!

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryTurkey

      Melek and Kerim are betrothed at a young age by their fathers. Time passes and Kerim's family gets rich. Meanwhile Melek's family continues to struggle in life. Hülya, Melek's sister, is determined to run away from her poor life. She will do what it takes to get herself accepted into Kerim's family.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic
      Duration02:05

      An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.

      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: 6.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western, military
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:39

      Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Mexico

      Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member of the Bahraini Royal Family. Meriam, who does not wish to consent to an arranged marriage, knows her love affair with Jason is dangerous, as he is a Mormon Christian and she a Muslim. Her parents would never consent to their match, and so Meriam and Jason race against time to escape Bahrain and make it to the United States, where they can marry. If Meriam is sent back, however, her life may be in jeopardy.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Four years into his first stable relationship, a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner's baby.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, western, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, western, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, western, history
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genremelodrama, drama, musical
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Japan, Mexico, Luxembourg

      The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Providing the romantic comedy genre with a decidedly queer twist, THE ONE is an effortlessly charming tale which proves that love is never simple! Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better: great parents, a successful career and his beautiful fiancée Jen. But in his seemingly perfect life, there is one temptation- he has a thing for his adorable, openly gay former college classmate Tommy. After a few drinks, Daniel succumbs to his repressed desires sending these two on a torrid affair. Funny how love and lust have a way of messing up even the best laid plans of man!

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbour.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). Soon after, however, their relationship is torn asunder when Terangi is sent to prison for punching a prejudiced white man. Prominent members of the community -- including the governor's wife, Mme. De Laage (Mary Astor), petition the governor for clemency, but he refuses to budge. However, all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.




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