20 best movies like The Big Empty (2003)

List of the best movies like The Big Empty (2003): The X Files: I Want to Believe, Arrival, Inherent Vice, Southland Tales, Fire in the Sky, Sound of My Voice, City Zero, UFO, Some Guy Who Kills People, Digging Up the Marrow.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada

Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, India
Duration02:32

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Germany, USA
    Duration02:25

    Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A group of men who were clearing brush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:43

    An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
    CountryRussia, USA
    Duration02:00

    A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

    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: 5.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
    Duration02:52

    A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:36

    The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryDenmark, Germany
    Duration02:19

    Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers, who by getting to know their unknown family also discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

    Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter in a Paris hotel room, to a fateful phone call-an unforgettable portrait of a relationship emerges.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
    Duration02:32

    A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham investigates a support group for alien abductees to write about the members' supposed encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, the more he realizes there is truth in their stories and possibly even signs that point to his own alien abduction.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:05

      A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, musical, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryFrance, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
      Duration01:43

      A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

        Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:56

        An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:37

        19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasingly dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:10

        A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration02:20

        The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Greece
        Duration01:50

        A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.




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