Movies like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
 7.5
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, road movie, atmospheric, dark comedy, disturbing, cerebral, captivating, humorous, clever ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, addiction, psychedelia, trippy, surrealism, american dream, hallucination, drug, journalist, weed, on the road, dialogue, cocaine, junkie, stoned, drug addiction, insanity, desert, marijuana, dark humor, eccentricity, paranoid ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965, year 1971
Place: las vegas, usa
Keyword: avant-garde, buddy movie, gangsters, reboot, dreams, partners, challenge, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult classic, psychedelic, weird and offbeat films with plots about drug, surrealism, female nudity, cigarette smoking, trippy, lsd and misfit mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), Trainspotting (1996), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Easy Rider (1969), Enter the Void (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Style: talky, surreal, road movie, humorous, grindhouse ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: journalism, drug abuse, drug use, hitchhiker, gonzo, writers, marijuana, drug, art, presidential election, on the road, media ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1980, 70s, year 1968
Place: usa, los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
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Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.2
 116K
Easy Rider (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style: road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, offbeat, cult classic ...
Plot: road trip, hippie, on the road, motorcycle, friendship, biker, marijuana, existentialism, freedom, rock music, rebelliousness, hallucination ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, california, los angeles, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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100%
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 108K
The Rum Diary (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden ...
Style: stylized, sexy, light, surreal, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, newspaper, cockfight, writers, alcoholism, eccentricity, gangster, addiction, lifestyle, alcoholic, profanity ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.2
 1.2M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.7
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Spun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Style: psychedelic, disturbing, surreal, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, drug addict, drug addiction, addiction, junkie, masturbation, drug, drug trip, drug use, strong sexual content, methamphetamine, crazy ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.3
 35K
Tideland (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, child neglect, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 292K
Almost Famous (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style: sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, musician, on the road, rock music, music, rock, musician's life, fame, road trip, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, new york, seattle, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 103K
Dead Man (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating ...
Plot: journey, native american, cowboy, gunfight, wilderness, murder, indians, on the road, accountant, existentialism, culture clash, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, year 1995, 90s, 1870s, victorian era
Place: usa, pacific ocean, cleveland ohio, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Acid House (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, surrealism, god, rave, breast feeding, dark humor, transformation, infidelity, murder, family relations, vandalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wonder Boys (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Grady (Michael Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award winning "Great American Novel" 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: midlife crisis, professor, college, adultery, gay, coming of age, divorce, gay interest, university, alienation, literature, prodigy ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 13K
Brain Damage (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A normal, average guy who lives in New York City becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied brain.
Style: surreal, scary, horror comedy, cult horror, semi serious ...
Plot: body horror, addiction, drug abuse, hallucination, parasite, gory, creature, exploitation, monster, surrealism, murder, misfit ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 8.8
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Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 38K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, white trash, youth, redneck, adolescence, unsettling, coming of age, gay slur, abuse, violence, sister sister relationship, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 7.8
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Ed Wood (1994)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot: hollywood, showbiz, misfit, biopic, drug addiction, friendship, director, addiction, character study, actress, lgbtq, transvestism ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
 45K
Arizona Dream (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to ...
Style: surreal, art house, melancholic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surrealism, self discovery, car salesman, magic realism, nervous breakdown, fall in love, american dream, family relations, love and romance, on the road, eccentric family, love triangle ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: arizona, usa, new york, papua new guinea, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 16K
Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.5
 48K
Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, addiction, poverty, alcohol abuse, great dialogue, drug, great ending, eccentricity, melancholy, dialogue, cat, gay ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.1
 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a ...
Style: stylized, humorous, surreal, visual, dark comedy ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: ocean, submarine, revenge, expedition, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, shark, filmmaking, vengeance, rivalry, magic realism, marijuana ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: italy, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
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