20 best movies like The Weather Man (2005)

List of the best movies like The Weather Man (2005): Beginners, Hector and the Search for Happiness, 50/50, Another Year, Shrink, Dad, Smart People, Heartburn, Oslo, August 31st, The Skeleton Twins.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
Duration01:54

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:09

Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.

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: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:58

After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two grow closer, and her daughters increasingly rely on Denny, Terry starts to have reservations about where their relationship is headed.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Israel

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:48

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26

    Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:04

    Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

    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: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain, Canada
    Duration01:46

    A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:34

    Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:44

    Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

      A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany, Belgium
      Duration01:51

      Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece
      Duration01:49

      We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryTurkey, France, Germany, Belgium

      When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Greece
      Duration01:48

      Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.

      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: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humour is the best medicine and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it means risking his own career.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryArgentina, Spain, Germany
      Duration01:35

      Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

      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.




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