Top 20 movies like Periphery
Top 20 Movies like Periphery
- 1. Wild Strawberries
- 2. The Party
- 3. The Party 2
- 4. A History of Violence
- 5. Meet Me in St. Louis
- 6. The Straight Story
- 7. Caché
- 8. Good Will Hunting
- 9. Raising Arizona
- 10. Forrest Gump
- 11. Our Family
- 12. Sleepless Knights
- 13. Youth Without Youth
- 14. The Spiderwick Chronicles
- 15. The Mad Empress
- 16. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
- 17. Children of Men
- 18. Welcome to Iceland
- 19. The Pigeon That Worked a Miracle
- 20. The Benchwarmers
1. Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
It has an average vote of 8.134 on TMDB.
2. The Party (La Boum)
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
It has an average vote of 6.607 on TMDB.
3. The Party 2 (La Boum 2)
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
It has an average vote of 6.444 on TMDB.
4. A History of Violence
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
5. Meet Me in St. Louis
The life of a St. Louis family in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. The Straight Story
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
It has an average vote of 7.729 on TMDB.
7. Caché (Caché)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
8. Good Will Hunting
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
It has an average vote of 8.154 on TMDB.
9. Raising Arizona
When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
It has an average vote of 7.058 on TMDB.
10. Forrest Gump
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
It has an average vote of 8.476 on TMDB.
11. Our Family (Bizim Aile)
A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marriage and he declares a war against the poor boy's family.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
12. Sleepless Knights (Sleepless Knights)
As every year Carlos is spending the summer in the country with his family in order to help out with things. Perhaps he won't even be returning to Madrid, as economic prospects are hardly rosy there. In addition, his father's health is failing and he needs Carlos to help. In this town, where the elders still celebrate the medieval rites, Carlos meets a young policeman Juan and they fall in love. A friendship ensues amidst age-old rituals and a crisis of a nation, all this set against a spectacular backdrop which seems somehow not of this world.
It has an average vote of 4.1 on TMDB.
13. Youth Without Youth
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
14. The Spiderwick Chronicles
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
It has an average vote of 6.63 on TMDB.
15. The Mad Empress
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
16. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
It has an average vote of 6.161 on TMDB.
17. Children of Men
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
It has an average vote of 7.609 on TMDB.
18. Welcome to Iceland
In the desolate Icelandic highlands, two lowbrow lovers lose their ride, a suited suicide his trigger finger, and a nuclear family their center. Losing their way and their reasons, they fall apart while coming together. A drama rich in comedy, arid plains, and empty stomachs.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. The Pigeon That Worked a Miracle
A boy, Chad, confined to a wheelchair, raises pigeons, and they are the therapy that he needs to walk again, when he forgets his own troubles to try to save his favorite pigeon.
20. The Benchwarmers
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
It has an average vote of 5.857 on TMDB.