20 best movies like The Patience Stone (2013)

List of the best movies like The Patience Stone (2013): Attack on Darfur, Incendies, A Private War, Bandit Queen, Lemon Tree, Land and Freedom, Johnny Mad Dog, Eichmann, Paradise Now, Ajami.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, military
CountryCanada, South Africa, Germany

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, detective, military
CountryCanada, France
Duration02:19

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:34

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryIndia

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, military
CountryIsrael, Germany, France

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France
Duration01:49

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, military
CountryFrance, Belgium, Liberia
Duration01:37

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryHungary, United Kingdom

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, military
CountryGermany, France, Netherlands, Israel, Palestine
Duration01:30

From the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel, this is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.

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: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:38

    An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, military
    CountryIsrael, France, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:33

    During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, military
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:10

    Naples, year 1943, in the middle of World War II. The city has just be liberated by American troops in an era in which nobody knows just when the war or where begins the peace; winners and losers face...

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, military
    CountryIran

    After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryLebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
    Duration02:57

    Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime, detective, military
    CountryLebanon, France, Qatar, Belgium, Egypt

    An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryDenmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
    Duration02:10

    During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:31

      Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryGeorgia, Germany, France
      Duration01:42

      Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

      Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, documentary, military, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
      Duration01:28

      What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
      CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
      Duration01:34

      The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.

      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: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany
      Duration02:07

      A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, military
      CountrySpain
      Duration02:08

      Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

      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: 6.6
      Genredrama, adventure, military
      CountryFrance, Italy, Qatar, Tunisia
      Duration02:10

      On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, documentary, military, biography
      CountryGermany, United Kingdom, France
      Duration01:20

      In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:01

      Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, documentary, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, military
      CountryNew Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia
      Duration02:13

      As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran

      Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryRussia, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Belarus
      Duration02:07

      Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:55

      Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

      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: 6.2
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:42

      A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.

      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: 6.8
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany, France, Turkey
      Duration01:48

      A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes field recordings of artists who practice rare and unusual forms. Sumru is struggling with loneliness after the disappearance of her Kurdish boyfriend, and for her latest project, she sets out on a lengthy road trip recording the stories of Kurdish women who have survived the murder of their Turkish husbands or lovers, hoping she might track down her man in her travels. After making her first stop in the city of Diyarbaki, Sumru meets Ahmet, who makes a living selling black market goods and shares her love of music and history. The two become fast friends, and as Ahmet joins Sumru on her travels, their relationship grows deeper, though she also becomes more aware of the tragedy that has gripped her country and the consequences of the civil war.

      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: 7.3
      Genredrama, western, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium

      A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

      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: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryMexico
      Duration01:56

      In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

      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: 5.4
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountrySerbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia

      Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryGermany

      After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.




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