20 best movies like Water (1985)


List of the best movies like Water (1985): The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Elixir, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Trust, Hector and the Search for Happiness, The Lobster, Dean Spanley, Six-String Samurai, The Parent Trap, Where the Heart Is.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:25

A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryChile
Duration01:38

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:47

After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.

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: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration01:36

    In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryNew Zealand, United Kingdom

    Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:08

    Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places. Hallie meets her mother, and Annie meets her father for the first time in years.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
    Duration02:16

    Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:43

    When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Sweden
    Duration01:55

      Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryWest Germany

      Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:47

      King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:45

      Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York—almost broke. To get some money, he makes TV commercials, where he meets a child who has communist parents. Because of this meeting, he's immediately suspected of being a communist—and gets caught up in the McCarthy's hearings.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:53

      Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history, sport
      CountrySerbia
      Duration02:21

      A football team from Belgrade, former Republic of Yugoslavia gets a chance to go to the First World Football Championship, but things get complicated along the way.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:47

      In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France

      After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:49

      Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When happy family man Joe Dirt finds himself transported to the recent past, he begins an epic journey to get back to his loved ones in the present.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryFrance, Italy

      A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

      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: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:37

      A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:34

      Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography
      CountryItaly, France
      Duration01:40

      Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryArgentina, Spain, France, United Kingdom
      Duration02:02

      Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:19

      Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, Australia, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, China
      Duration02:09

      Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryItaly
      Duration01:24

      A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:41

      What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountrySweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France
      Duration01:41

      An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, western, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:52

      Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
      CountryHong Kong, China
      Duration01:57

      When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:30

      When Nénette (Josiane Balasko) discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul (Michel Blanc). Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
      CountryDenmark, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.




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