20 best movies like The Luzhin Defence (2000)

List of the best movies like The Luzhin Defence (2000): Steve Jobs, Sophie's Choice, Broken Flowers, Tess, The Devil's Violinist, Vincere, Leaving Las Vegas, Womb, Wilde, Klimt.

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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: 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: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:46

    As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration03:06

    A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryGermany, Italy
    Duration01:57

    The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:01

    The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a classical Italian opera. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:52

    Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Hungary, France
    Duration01:47

    A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, Germany
    Duration01:58

    The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryAustria, France, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration02:11

    A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
    Duration02:12

    After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration02:03

      The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA

      Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

        American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, USA
        Duration01:53

        Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryFrance, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
        Duration01:40

        The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, history
        CountryGreece, France, Italy, Germany, Russia

        A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:02

        An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:04

        A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryAustralia
        Duration01:45

        Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration01:46

        Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, history
        CountryCzech Republic, France, USA
        Duration01:49

        North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration01:57

          A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryFrance

          When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Denmark, USA
          Duration01:35

          One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryFrance, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, USA
          Duration03:14

          The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
          Duration02:05

          The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo, is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina, has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for a TV show

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:59

          In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.

          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: 7.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, Austria, Germany
          Duration02:07

          Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, West Germany
          Duration02:21

          During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.

          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: 6.9
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, France
          Duration01:59

          In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:28

          The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryBelgium, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
          Duration02:17

          An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountrySpain, United Kingdom, France, USA, Germany
          Duration01:32

          Scandal erupts over a famous bullfighter's affair with a left-wing actress.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, musical
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:23

          Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genremelodrama, drama, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

          Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton), to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredrama
          CountryItaly, France
          Duration02:02

          Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo. Ugo's old pal, Corrado, shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana's anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana's existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryThailand, France
          Duration01:45

          The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
          Duration02:30

          Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genremelodrama, drama, music
          CountryItaly
          Duration02:00

          The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama, military
          CountryItaly, Spain
          Duration02:07

          Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:33

          As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with a dashing gambler.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
          CountryIndia, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg
          Duration02:18

          A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
          CountryFrance
          Duration02:38

          The life of Camille Claudel, a french sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:57

          When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:20

          The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.




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