20 best movies like The Burning Plain (2008)

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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: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryMexico
Duration02:20

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

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: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryBelgium, France
Duration01:35

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

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: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA
Duration01:51

An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration01:46

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA, Poland
Duration01:35

A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the owner's daughter.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:25

A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

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: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

    A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

    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: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
    Duration01:45

    Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

    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: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Duncan Mudge, mid-teens, lives apart from his rural world populated by his distant father and rough local kids. His main companionship is a chicken left after his mother's death until the neighbor's son befriends him.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:37

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:38

    Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love. The film, like a dream, flows back and forth between the past and present, often asking us to fill the deliberate jumps in time.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:52

    The true story of Soldier’s Girl, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer was misunderstood by fellow soldiers and eventually leads to his brutal death.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris and Drake, both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassie, while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration02:14

    Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

    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: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:42

    Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, all bets are off when an ebullient stranger enters the picture.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.




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