20 best movies like Wendy and Lucy (2008)

List of the best movies like Wendy and Lucy (2008): Veronika Decides to Die, The Messenger, Everything Must Go, Places in the Heart, Reign Over Me, The Wrestler, In the Gloaming, Diary of a Country Priest, Straight Time, Coming Home.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

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: 6.4
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: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

    A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:45

      Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

      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: 7.9
      Genredrama
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:00

      An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.

      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: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:47

      Judas, a seasoned thief, finds himself in the market square where Christ is giving a sermon and his apostles are collecting alms. He follows them and steals their money, only to be caught red-handed. Nevertheless, the Teacher forgives him. What is more, He invites the thief to become one of His followers and offers him a position as the group’s treasurer. Shocked by Christ’s unexpected offer, Judas decides to join the apostles, if only to figure out what is going on. He gradually starts to comprehend Christ’s message, but feels that the apostles are blindly following their teacher. Judas argues with them, and tries to defend his right to divine the truth of God. But when he fails to make them understand, he realizes that Christ’s teachings may sink into oblivion without benefiting humanity. His solution is to betray Christ. “By killing a man, have I not saved a God?”

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

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

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

        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: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

        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: 7.1
        Genredrama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genredrama
        CountryGermany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
        Duration01:59

        One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genredrama, family
        CountryUSA, Germany

        11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a revolution in her family dynamic when she wins a spelling bee. Finding an emotional outlet in the power of words and in the spiritual mysticism that he sees at work in her unparalleled gift, Eliza's father pours all of his energy into helping his daughter become spelling bee champion. A religious studies professor, he sees the opportunity as not only a distraction from his life but as an answer to his own crisis of faith. His vicarious path to God, real or imagined, leads to an obsession with Eliza's success and he begins teaching her secrets of the Kabbalah. Now preparing for the National Spelling Bee, Eliza looks on as a new secret of her family's hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, military
        CountryIsrael, Germany, France

        Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.

        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: 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: 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: 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: 7.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:32

        The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:37

        Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryChina, France, USA, Hong Kong
        Duration01:35

        Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration02:19

        Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Poland
        Duration01:43

        A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

        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.

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