20 best movies like The Impossible (2012)

List of the best movies like The Impossible (2012): 12 Years a Slave, The Deep, Noah, Hacksaw Ridge, Letters to God, In Search of Fellini, Mary Shelley, All the Money in the World, Black Water, Land of Mine.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:13

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama
CountryIceland
Duration01:35

Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:29

    WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA

    Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration02:05

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
    Duration02:08

    The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:29

    A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryDenmark, Germany
    Duration02:22

    In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys were forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of the Danish sergeant, Carl Leopold Rasmussen.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
    Duration02:27

    The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:27

    Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

    Markimdb: 2.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Spain, Sweden

    In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” (Messner) – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:56

      Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, family, cartoon
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Japan
      Duration01:44

      The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryPakistan, USA

      After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Japan

      A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryChile, Spain, Germany
      Duration02:36

      Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:31

        Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, drama, western, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:49

        In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

        Markimdb: 2.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        A scientist readies a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. However, after the disasters reach a peak level of destruction those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, as he and other refugees look to save the world and stop the disaster using the two Supercolliders on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryThailand
        Duration02:38

        Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama
        CountryDenmark, Sweden, Netherlands
        Duration02:57

        Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. His wife Anna, a well-known television newscaster, suggests that they invite their friends to come and live with them. In this way she hopes to evade the boredom that has begun to seep into their marriage. Before long, a dozen women, men and children move into the country house, make collective decisions, engage in discussions and go swimming together in the nearby Øresund strait. They also rub each other up the wrong way on account of their smaller and larger idiosyncrasies. Their fragile equilibrium threatens to come undone when Erik falls in love with his student Emma and the young woman moves into the house. Fourteen-year-old Freja, daughter of Erik and Anna, aloofly observes these goings-on and seeks her own way.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantasy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
        Duration02:30

        A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, family, short
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:35

        In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody of her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
        Duration02:32

        A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genredrama, military, biography
        CountrySpain, USA, Argentina
        Duration02:02

        Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography, history
        CountryUSA, Australia, Spain
        Duration02:10

        In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  But that told only half the story.  “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.  Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryChile, Colombia, Spain, USA
        Duration02:42

        Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryThailand
        Duration01:02

        Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets the idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can’t get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn’s business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Iceland
        Duration02:46

        Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
        CountryNorway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
        Duration01:49

        The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
        Duration02:07

        The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

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