20 best movies like The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:34

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:45

Fiction inspired from the story of the rise and the fall of french politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:20

Le Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves to flee. She leaves for the city, surviving desperate situations, but surviving nonetheless. Eventually she meets a U.S. Marine named Steve Butler who treats her kindly and tells her he would like to be married -- maybe to her.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryHungary, Germany, Austria, France

In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryDenmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryRomania, USA, Italy, Poland, France
Duration01:50

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:05

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountrySouth Korea

After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:16

Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:30

Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, Patrick, also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Remy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up...

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, military
CountryItaly, France, Germany

The final film in Rossellini's war film trilogy (the first two being Rome, Open City and Paisà). Germany Year Zero takes place in post-war Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and post-war Italy, respectively. The story follows a twelve-year-old boy, Edmund Kohler, who is mainly left to his own devices in order to survive and to help his family do the same.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:51

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Germany, France, USA
Duration01:45

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, West Germany, USA
Duration01:42

A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA

After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime
CountryMorocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryAfghanistan, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:42

In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration02:08

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, history
CountryFrance, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration01:52

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
Duration01:38

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

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: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Netherlands
Duration01:47

    A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    Caged tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:56

    A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Vietnam

    Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGermany, Israel, United Kingdom
    Duration02:04

    Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:29

    A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, crime, film noir, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama
    CountryJapan, France

    The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking take a road trip together. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose.

    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: 7.6
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryChina, Hong Kong
    Duration02:26

    A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Japan, USA
    Duration01:31

    Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
    Duration02:05

    Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, military
    CountryFrance, West Germany, Italy
    Duration01:44

    Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:23

    When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:35

    Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.




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