20 best movies like Wintersleepers (1997)

List of the best movies like Wintersleepers (1997): The Divide, Victoria, What to Do in Case of Fire?, Dragonfly, Official Secrets, A Dangerous Method, Solo, The Titan, Cannibal, Nothing Lasts Forever.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryGermany
Duration02:10

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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: 6.1
Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:44

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.

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: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography, sport
    CountrySpain

    After falling off a cliff and suffering substantial injures, for 48 long hours a young surfer must face a merciless nature and his own physical and mental agony to try to survive.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
    Duration02:22

    On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Romania, Russia, France
    Duration01:57

    Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:07

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryGermany

    After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:07

    The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany

    Due to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a double agent is targeted by the American foreign intelligence service CIA.

    Markimdb: 1.6
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryFrance, Germany, Spain
    Duration01:52

    Beauty and the Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version by Madame de Villeneuve has never been adapted for the screen... until now!

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration02:24

    In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Czech Republic

    After most of her family is murdered in a terrorist bombing, a young woman is unknowingly lured into joining the very group that killed them.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, sport
    CountryKazakhstan, Russia, France, Germany
    Duration01:26

    Fifteen year old Mustafa has a nickname Schizo. He is hired by his mother’s boyfriend to find fighters for illegal fistfights. His life is changed forever when a young man mortally beaten in one of the fights asks Schizo to deliver his prize money to his girlfriend and young son. Schizo takes the money to the woman as promised and falls in love with her. Now he knows for whom he has to make money, no matter what the cost. In fistfights there are no rules… until blood is spilled!

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada, Germany

    Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:02

    A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
    Duration01:41

    A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryGermany, Poland
    Duration01:38

    A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
    Duration01:45

    Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:35

    While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustria, Germany, France

    An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:45

      DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:45

      A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryArgentina, Chile, France, South Korea
      Duration01:47

      In Argentina over 8,000 people die in traffic accidents every year. Behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes. Sosa is a lawyer who tours the A&E Departments of the public hospitals and the police stations in search of potential clients. Luján is a young doctor recently arrived from the provinces. Their love story kicks off one night when Luján and Sosa meet in the street. She's trying to save a man's life; he wants him on his client portfolio

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

      A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
      Duration01:39

      Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:48

      In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America's notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would answer their personal ads in which Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Based on a true story.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

      A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryCanada, Germany
      Duration01:37

      An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA, Germany

      A female photographer hears that her brother has been shot dead at a horse rearing farm. She decides to go there herself and uncovers a murky conspiracy.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Austria, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany

      Susanne works for an auction company, and founds out that a painting that they have been charged to sell is a copy. So she goes to Florence, where the expert that made the valuation lives, and meets with the owner.




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