20 best movies like The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

List of the best movies like The Bridges of Madison County (1995): Boy Meets Girl, The Face of Love, The Fountain, Lake Consequence, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Love in Winterland, Closer, Edward Scissorhands, Detective Story, The Hero.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

BOY MEETS GIRL is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:36

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successfull husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend fishing trip, Irene wanting to see Billy, gets locked in the back of his trailer and ends up at remote Lake Consequence with Billy and his girlfriend Grace where they take Irene on a trip into the nearby town to a Chinese New Year Festival, and through a series of adventures they bring out the repressed sexual needs Irene has been holding inside for a long time.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Ally, a final contestant on a dating show, must face her high school sweetheart when she is chosen for the Hometown Date.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:44

A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:04

An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:57

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom, Colombia
Duration02:18

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock singer/guitarist. However, a car wreck changes everything in an instant, and now Mia's life hangs in the balance. Suspended between life and death, Mia faces a choice that will decide her future.

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: 4.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:37

Manchester is a struggling photographer with charm to spare who falls for Noon, a sweet but spunky woman who works as a taxidermist. Noon is also drawn to Manchester, and together they enjoy a wildly enthusiastic sexual relationship that reflects their innocent but deeply passionate love for one another.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:53

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Belgium, USA
Duration01:58

The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:21

In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.

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: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece
Duration01:49

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico

An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Directed by Gus Van Sant, one of the most astute observers of people living life on the edge, comes a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
Duration01:41

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter go missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:46

As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

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: 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: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

    Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:55

    When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.

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