20 best movies like The Liar and His Lover (2017)


List of the best movies like The Liar and His Lover (2017): Goodbye, Someday, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, A Star Is Born, The Competition, 9 Songs, Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town, Sing Street, Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2, Like for Likes, Babyteeth.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryJapan, South Korea
Duration02:13

Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's founder, and though he doesn't love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets Touko at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches. Eventually, he decides to break up with her and calls Michiko in front of her. Touko is disappointed, and the next day she leaves for New York. Yutaka and Michiko reunite in Thailand and proceed with their wedding. Twenty-five years later, Yutaka and Michiko are married with two sons. But Yutaka still harbors memories of Touko in his heart. Yutaka visits Bangkok on business and goes to the Oriental Hotel where he had stayed with Touko-and finds she is now in charge of VIP guests there. They realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryIndia
Duration02:25

Ayan falls in love with his soulmate, Alizeh, but she doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. Later, a relationship with Saba helps him realize Alizeh’s value in his life, irrespective of their relationship status.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?

Markimdb: 4.7
Genremelodrama, drama, for adults, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:11

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration02:36

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:44

Punk's Dead, the sequel to 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, is a punk romp through the Utah hinterlands. Ross, Penny and Crash, young outsiders from different tribes, embark on a road trip to a huge punk show. Ross, 19, is the love child of Trish and Heroin Bob, who died before Ross was born. During their odyssey, and with the help of a healthy dose of drugs, alcohol and punk music, Ross shreds his darkly Gothic outlook and embraces life. His mother Trish, who raised Ross alone in her steam punk shop, discovers that he is in a crisis. She recruits his 'uncles,' Bob's old SLC gang, to help find him. When all collide at the concert, they are forced to deal with their unresolved relationships with Bob.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:10

A notoriously shrewish TV drama writer and a Korean wave star who fight like cats and dogs every time they meet; a spinster flight attendant landlady and a nosy chef tenant who build a sense of camaraderie; a genius relationship-virgin composer who harbors a secret admiration for a scatterbrained producer. As they crash-land into each other's lives, will there be love?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryAustralia

A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:20

A man receives a wedding invitation from his first love who he met in high school.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:16

Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
CountryGermany, Poland
Duration01:38

A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:16

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Although born in the same year, two childhood friends end up being 13 years apart because they have aged surprisingly at different places (worlds) for some strange reason. Now Eom Hyeon Soo is a 31-year-old woman but Sung Hae Sung is still a 18-year-old boy. Cha Won Yooung is a chef also interested in Eom Hyeon Soo.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
CountryPoland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
Duration02:02

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
CountryRussia

The popular rapper comes on tour in St. Petersburg. His fans adore and wait, he is at the peak of fame, he is confident in himself. Together with the star, his manager, musicians and a girl come. Suddenly an attempt is made on a musician. He miraculously manages to escape death, but his manager decides to hire a security guard. It turns out that the guard is ... a girl. She is a professional in her field, but in the brutal world of rap, a woman has a difficult time.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:45

Jack Malik is a struggling singer-songwriter in an English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration03:21

    Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Fantastic (Hangul: 판타스틱; RR: Pantaseutik) is a 2016 South Korean television series starring Joo Sang-wook, Kim Hyun-joo, Park Si-yeon and Ji-soo. It tells the story of a successful drama writer whose life turns upside down after she discovers that she has a terminal illness and a famous actor who can't act.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountrySpain

    A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryNorway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden

      Amalie is the girl who has everything, good looks, money, a boyfriend and a big talent of dancing. One day, her world falls apart and she moves from everything she knows. Then enter Mikael. He is dancing in the streets and Amalie joins him in dancing on the streets, dancing Battles.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryAustralia

      The story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, family, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

        Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind that visiting her grandparents while her sister tries to meet Christopher Wilde. One night she meets Christopher Wilde. They go an an adventure around Los Angeles and start to like each other. When Jessica returns home, Christopher, on national TV, says he doesn't know her, and never met her.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, music
        CountryNetherlands

        19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
        CountryThailand

        In this world, there are many people who seem to be wandering along a relationship border-lining 'friends' and 'lovers'. This borderline is also commonly known as the FRIEND ZONE. It is a special area for those who are stuck in the middle where they cannot really stay friends with their close friends, nor move forward to be their friends' lovers.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
        CountryUSA

        Kristin has just had to close her small Manhattan clothing boutique to return to her Ohio home town and live in her parents' former home. It's an adjustment for Kristin and her young daughter— especially when she runs into her former high school rival. Kristen and Emily struggle to find their new normal with the help of the hunky local music teacher.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountrySouth Korea

        Set in the Joseon Dynasty period, a romance takes place between cold-hearted Gyun-Woo and Princess Hyemyung who causes troubles.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, music
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:45

        Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA

        When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA

        The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:46

        Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genremelodrama, drama, family, music
        CountryIndia

        Dia is a divorced mom living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her guru is on his death bed. When she arrives she finds he is gone and has left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theater where she used to dance. The problem is that the political officers want it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline follows Dia and her challenge to stand up for what she believes in and fight the cause to the end, while trying to win back the love and support of the people of the town whom she walked out on ten years prior.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountrySouth Korea

        By chance, a man and a woman meet on the KTX train and spend 24 hours in the unfamiliar city of Busan, South Korea.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:16

        A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.

        Markimdb: 2.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A successful DJ named Darrel (Usher), managed to rescue a powerful mobster one night. In order to repay Darrell, the mobster, Frank Pacelli, gives him the task of protecting his daughter, Dolly (Chriqui)

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
        CountryUSA, Italy, Spain
        Duration01:52

          Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:43

          This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:34

          Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:30

          Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Haewon gets more agitated and Seongjun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together… Haewon dreams often. Her dreams will be compared to her waking life, but none can be denied as being a part of her life.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genremelodrama, music
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:35

          Myeong-jin and Jeong-woo, attending the same conservatory, are studying cello. Myeong-jin is in awe of Jeong-woo's genius. Ji-eun, a piano student is working on her own composition: Magic. Jeong-woo offers to play it for her but on the day of the performance, he collapses on stage, leaving Myeong-jin to complete the concert. While nursing Jeongwoo back to health, Myeong-jin asks Ji-eun if he can step in for Jeongwoo but she refuses his offer. After Jeong-woo dies, Ji-eun goes to see Myeong-jin. She plays Magic one final time and quietly enters the music room to end her own life.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genremelodrama, drama, music
          CountrySweden
          Duration01:59

          Pål dreams about becoming successful with his music, but he has one major obstacle: himself. He's a diamond in the rough, and the only things greater than his musical talent are his obsessions, which constantly get him into trouble. We follow Pål on an emotional journey one summer in Gothenburg where he is thrown between passion and deceit; love, reconciliation and deliverance.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music, sport
          CountryCanada

          The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are forced to take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year-old.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama, music
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration01:52

          Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.




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