20 best movies like The Cooler (2003)

List of the best movies like The Cooler (2003): Jack & Diane, To the Wonder, Behind the Candelabra, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Bellflower, Carol, East Side, West Side, Gilda, Bugsy, Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

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Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

    After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

    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
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa".

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
    Duration02:35

    In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A New Yorker's (James Mason) mistress (Ava Gardner) drives his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to a war hero; then someone kills the mistress.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

    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: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

    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: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:53

    Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Chile

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    After her unfaithful husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful. However winning the approval of her spoiled daughter proves a greater challenge.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA, Germany, Australia
    Duration02:04

    A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

      All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby , which arouses the jealousy of Ines

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      A young woman goes in search of her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. Along the way, she finds herself at odds with her boyfriend who wants nothing but a carefree lifestyle.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:42

      On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration01:48

      The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:45

      Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration01:30

      A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

      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
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

      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: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance. The emotional isolation the two men have grown accustomed to is captured in a subtle, optimistic, poetic fashion while avoiding melodrama.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryJapan

      A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
      CountryChina, USA
      Duration01:43

      An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:30

      It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Ned (Liev Schreiber) is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year old son has just told him he is gay and his eleven year old is afraid of, well pretty much everything. When his wife, Jeannie (Helen Hunt), moves her sick and embittered father (Brian Dennehy) from Detroit into their home in NY, it puts added stress on an already strained marriage. And when a sexy female co-worker (Carla Gugino) puts the moves on Ned, the temptation sends him spiraling. EVERY DAY is about one family's struggle to survive the unexpected curve-balls that are simply part of real life; aging and death; commitment and freedom; love and acceptance. It's an uncompromising look at an ordinary family making an extraordinary journey towards themselves and towards each other.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryHong Kong
      Duration01:36

      In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for a depressed woman looking for the prostitute who supposedly stole her ex-boyfriend's affections.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A TEACHER explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What starts as a seemingly innocent fling becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as the beautiful and confident Diana gets fully consumed by her emotions, crossing boundaries and acting out in progressively startling ways. Lindsay Burdge delivers a deeply compelling and seamlessly naturalistic performance that brings us into the mind of an adult driven to taboo against her better judgment.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:08

      Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:29

      The estranged daughter (Lauren Lee Smith) of a recently deceased filmmaker gains a new understanding of her father when she offers to create a retrospective of his work.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Turkey
      Duration02:01

      Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryWest Germany, USA
      Duration01:56

      This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.




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