Top 20 movies like The Banishment

The Banishment

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.

Изгнание is of 2 hour(s) and 38 minute(s). It is Produced By:  REN TV, Hélicotronc. It was released on 2008-03-27. It has the tagline: If you want to kill, kill. If you want to forgive, forgive. It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. Nine Days of One Year (Девять дней одного года)

Nine Days of One Year

Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.

It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Nine Days of One Year

2. Corn Island (სიმინდის კუნძული)

Corn Island

The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Corn Island

3. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (Географ глобус пропил)

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

4. Kidulthood

Kidulthood

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Kidulthood

5. The Return (Возвращение)

The Return

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip into the Russian wilderness.

It has an average vote of 7.49 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like The Return

6. Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

It has an average vote of 6.585 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Things We Lost in the Fire

7. Elena (Елена)

Elena

Elena is a woman of a certain age, living in a chic Moscow apartment with her wealthy businessman husband Vladimir. While Vladimir is estranged from his daughter, he does not mask his contempt for Elena's own child, who seems to be in constant need of financial assistance. When Vladimir suddenly falls ill and his volatile, nihilistic daughter comes back into the picture, Elena must hatch a plan for her own survival.

It has an average vote of 7.287 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Elena

8. The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)

The Edge of Heaven

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like The Edge of Heaven

9. The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը)

The Color of Pomegranates

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like The Color of Pomegranates

10. Brother (Брат)

Brother

Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.

It has an average vote of 7.632 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Brother

11. Leviathan (Левиафан)

Leviathan

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Leviathan

12. Loveless (Нелюбовь)

Loveless

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

It has an average vote of 7.356 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Loveless

13. Toni Erdmann (Toni Erdmann)

Toni Erdmann

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

It has an average vote of 6.99 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Toni Erdmann

14. Everybody Wants Some!!

Everybody Wants Some!!

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

It has an average vote of 6.372 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Everybody Wants Some!!

15. Silenced (도가니)

Silenced

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

It has an average vote of 8.154 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Silenced

16. A Prophet (Un prophète)

A Prophet

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

It has an average vote of 7.591 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like A Prophet

17. In the Mood for Love (花樣年華)

In the Mood for Love

In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.

It has an average vote of 8.107 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like In the Mood for Love

18. Arrival

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

It has an average vote of 7.602 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Arrival

19. Interstellar

Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

It has an average vote of 8.434 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Interstellar

20. Joker

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

It has an average vote of 8.162 on TMDB.

You might like:Top Movies Like Joker
Loading...