20 best movies like The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

List of the best movies like The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014): Sophie's Choice, Life Itself, To the Wonder, The Last Five Years, Fruitvale Station, For Love of the Game, Detective Story, The Hottest State, Touched with Fire, A Bird of the Air.

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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: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:28

As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

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: 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: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:17

    A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.

    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: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA

    A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.

    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
    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: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

      On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      John Cassavetes’s directorial debut revolves around a romance in New York City between Lelia, a light- skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man. The relationship is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was. Shot on location in Manhattan with a mostly nonprofessional cast and crew, Shadows is a penetrating work that is widely considered the forerunner of the American independent film movement.

      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: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      A man who lived his life as he was was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:03

        The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

          Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

            Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:26

            A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genremelodrama, drama, music
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:56

            The film follows aspiring singer-songwriter Jed King (Alan Powell) as he struggles to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his father, a country music legend. After reluctantly accepting a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival, Jed is love-struck by the vineyard owner’s daughter, Rose (Ali Faulkner), and a romance quickly blooms. Soon after their wedding, Jed writes Rose “The Song,” which becomes a breakout hit. Thrust into a life of stardom and a world of temptation in the form of fellow performer Shelby Bale (Caitlin Nicol-Thomas), Jed’s life and marriage begin to fall apart.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genremelodrama, drama, western
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:23

            The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers—compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:08

            A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

            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: 7.7
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:20

            A film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love scene, which led to an intense, whirlwind affair, followed by a devastating breakup. Soon after their split, things get complicated when the two have to meet on set once more to re-shoot that fateful sequence.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:39

            Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

            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: 7.4
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:21

            When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.

            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: 7.1
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:33

            Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

            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: 6.7
            Genremelodrama, drama, musical
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:45

            The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.

            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: 8
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

              Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

              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: 6.8
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:39

              Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

              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
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUSA

              A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:58

              When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.

              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
              Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:43

              An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to his was right.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genremelodrama, drama, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:52

              When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?

              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: 5.7
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:43

              Overachieving actress, Rebecca (Moore), must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad, Tom (Duchovny). While Rebecca's slacker brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup), can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal). As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:56

              Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.

              Markimdb: 5.7
              Genremelodrama, drama, biography
              CountryUSA

              Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl's fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother - which only fed Florence's need to stay in the spotlight.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:38

              Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.

              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.




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