20 best movies like The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)

List of the best movies like The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974): Syrup, Picture a Perfect Christmas, Liberal Arts, Looking for Mr. Right, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him, Shrimp, Morgan, Summer '03, Ruby Sparks, High Strung Free Dance.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's novel.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A Los Angeles extreme-sports photographer returns home for the holiday to take care of her grandmother, only to have a neighbor grab her attention as he needs assistance watching his young nephew.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA

A struggling writer is forced to fake a relationship to save her career, while overlooking the love of a longtime friend.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Shrimp explores the strange, interwoven and often hilarious daily lives of the women and men who work and play in a Los Angeles BDSM den.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

    Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Romania

    Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s most-anticipated new Broadway show: Free Dance. But the move throws off the show’s delicate creative balance when Charlie falls hard for Barlow, while Zander embraces her as his muse.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. Stars Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Ryan Bottiglieri, Bruce Dern.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

      Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryMexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
      Duration01:30

      To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, who accustomed to intimacy with whores since childhood, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      In this holiday romantic comedy, a mysterious woman who works at the post office answering Santa's mail captures the heart of a disillusioned postal carrier

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

        To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        When they say “love is blind” they must have been talking about Amy and Ben. Amy is a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. Ben is a scruffy slacker, whose only ambition seems to be avoiding growing up. However, Amy sees something in Ben that Ben doesn't see in himself, which gives Ben the confidence to make something of his life. The power of love shows Ben that being a grown-up isn't such a bad thing after all.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A married woman's affair comes back to haunt her when her obsessed lover infiltrates every part of her life.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams. With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

        The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:03

        Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.

        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: 5.9
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, family
        CountryCanada, USA

        Sara Shaw is the type of woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at work, but when her big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her wish, but only gives her 48 hours. As the clock ticks, Sara will discover how to channel the Christmas magic and speak her mind all on her own.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
        Duration01:41

        A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.




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