20 best movies like Up at the Villa (2000)

List of the best movies like Up at the Villa (2000): Man Up, American Honey, Walking on Sunshine, Your Sister's Sister, The Lunchbox, Jane Eyre, The Face of Love, Royal Matchmaker, Last Christmas, The Host.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:33

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:25

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Italy
Duration01:33

Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration01:44

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:00

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration00:36

A struggling NYC matchmaker is hired by a king to find his son a suitable wife in time for a national celebration. As the clock ticks towards her deadline, the matchmaker finds him the perfect wife -- only to realize that she’s fallen in love with him!

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
Duration02:05

A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

    An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

    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: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:40

    Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:08

    Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Spain
    Duration01:38

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, India
    Duration01:48

    As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy
    Duration02:17

    An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration02:20

    A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Lebanon

    Having left England for a romantic escapade in the South of France, Olivier and James invite Caroline along at the very last minute. The trio arrives in a little Provencal village, somewhat cut off from the world. Though everything seems calm between the pool, sunshine and a village visit, Olivier finds himself more and more intrigued by Caroline. A tension of sexual jealousy and possessiveness will then escalade between the three of them.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:32

    Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

    An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

      The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:44

      A sleazy politician sends an agent after his ex-fiancee, who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration03:46

      Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television miniseries directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak. The serial is the second English-language screen adaptation of the book, following the 1965 feature film. It was produced by Granada Television, with co-funding from the American PBS station WGBH Boston and the German company Evision. It was first broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom, beginning on 24 November 2002. In the United States, it aired as part of Masterpiece Theatre on 2 and 9 November 2003.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:30

      As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
      Duration02:22

      An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico

      Aged, embittered widower, Fred learns to enjoy life thanks to his elderly yet vibrant neighbor, Elsa. Upon learning Elsa is terminally ill, Fred takes her to the Fontana di Trevi in Rome in order to reenact her favorite scene from ‘La Dolce Vita’.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect over his lifestyle.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:46

      Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:00

      Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Italy, France
      Duration01:26

      Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:50

      A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:43

      This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:24

      Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
      Duration01:37

      The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
      Duration01:39

        Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:16

        Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryCanada, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Japan, USA
        Duration01:47

        Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

        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: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:26

        A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.




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