20 best movies like Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

List of the best movies like Things We Lost in the Fire (2007): Another Year, Oslo, August 31st, What Maisie Knew, Pure, The Kindness of Strangers, In the Gloaming, Bird, Everything Must Go, Rabbit Hole, Just Like a Woman.

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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: 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: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:36

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryDenmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

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: 7.1
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:41

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

    Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:27

    Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.

    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: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:44

      Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama
      CountryPortugal, Luxembourg, France

      After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:05

      School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:28

      An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:15

      Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7, until he started experiencing blackouts, memory lapses and other strange mental phenomena. Eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD—an extremely rare and incurable degenerative brain disorders—his parents, frustrated at the failings of conventional medicine, start their quest for an unothadox treatment.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
      Duration01:49

      Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration01:41

        Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama
        CountryItaly, France

        Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against the injustice that fell upon him. Love and support from his friends and family as well as the laughter of his children will help him to triumph against the odds.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:43

        In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Cayman Islands
        Duration01:34

        A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama
        CountryBulgaria, Sweden

        Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.

        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: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA

        Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantasy, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction, depression and self-injury. In a creative blend of artistic fantasy balanced with harsh reality, the movie follows Renee on her courageous journey towards recovery.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Respected lawyer, Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. After also losing his job—where he no longer 'fits in'—his loving wife and daughter give him all their love and support.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

        A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:36

        Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryUSA

        A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

        An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.




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