20 best movies like The Witness (1969)


List of the best movies like The Witness (1969): Control, For Some Inexplicable Reason, The One and Only Ivan, Underground, Free Fall, I Spy, Severance, Woman at War, The Love Witch, 21 & Over.

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Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryHungary
Duration01:45

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, who are all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryHungary

Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryYugoslavia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria
Duration03:14

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko realizes that the situation is ripe for exploitation.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryHungary, South Korea, France

An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Hungary
Duration01:37

When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Hungary
Duration01:36

Members (Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny) of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in the woods, and he has a horrible fate in mind for each of the co-workers.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIceland, France, Ukraine
Duration01:44

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:52

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror
CountryUSA

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryCanada

A shy high schooler struggles to lose his virginity before the local Satanic cult can sacrifice him to the devil.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:40

What would you do if a relative recently released from prison would move to your house? And you accidentally killed him...

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIsrael
Duration01:37

Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:47

Two college grads return to their hometown, where a hypothetical question -- whose dad would win in a fight? -- leads to mass mayhem.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryHungary

Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:42

Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Louise Farnt is obsessed with the world of self-help. And when she meets the not necessarily sane guru wannabe Val Stone, a murderous spree begins.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:32

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Three families compete for a camping spot during a busy Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration01:33

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySpain

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryRomania, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:25

Set during World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be all shot by the Nazis the morning after. There's no way to find the guilty one, but there's Ipu, the madman of the village, whom they promise a hero's funeral if he will claims responsibility and agrees to die in their place. He must decide, and time is running out.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, comedy, drama
CountryHungary

Two physically handicapped youngsters make friends with a paralysed hitman and are commissioned by a local mafia boss. They have little to lose although things are never as they first appear. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur as the unlikely heroes stumble from one close encounter to the next and we gain an unusual insight into their lives on the periphery of society.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryAustralia, USA, Mexico
Duration01:31

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, comedy
CountryNetherlands
Duration01:17

Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:43

A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:15

Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA

Four girls go to a cabin in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:29

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

    A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, comedy
    CountryIndia

    Unfolding through a course of a night in Mumbai, Kaalakaandi showcases three parallel tracks — a man who discovers he has terminal illness decides to let go of his principles and live a little; a woman involved in a hit-and-run seeks redemption and two goons must decide if they can trust each other.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:24

    This is a story about a guy who is willing to sell the soul, just to dial million views for your videos on YouTube. On the way to his goal, he turns into a fast train "Moscow - Vladivostok», where faced with an American actress, suffering aerophobia. On the way strangers expect such adventures that they lag behind the train that trying to catch up, moving our unpredictable and fabulous Mother Russia - After each of them need to be in Vladivostok exactly 7 days - for reasons which they carefully conceal from each other.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, family, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, short
    CountryFinland, Norway, France, Sweden
    Duration01:19

    It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA

    A thirtieth birthday -- and the survival of mankind -- are left hanging in the balance after a mysterious creature crashes the party, forcing four childhood friends to save the night.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:31

    When Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:35

    When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:30

    While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryLithuania, United Kingdom
    Duration01:39

    Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, France, Sweden, Argentina
    Duration01:38

    Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryCanada, Germany, France, USA
    Duration01:47

    Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.




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