Movies like Highway

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Highway (2002)
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Highway (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
Style: road movie, rough, serious, realistic, witty, cynical, offbeat, erotic, period piece, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, friendship, love triangle, young heroes, gangster, unrequited love, love and romance, self discovery, buddies, older woman younger man relationship, mobster, prostitute, underground, drug dealer, stoner, coming of age, atmosphere, older woman younger man, lovers on the run, fugitive, drug dealing, goon, bare chested male, youth ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: seattle, las vegas, usa, seattle washington
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and independent film films with plots about friendship, friends, female nudity, gangster, coming of age, youth and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Highway: River of Grass (1994), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Strays (1997), Brooklyn Rules (2007), What Alice Found (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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River of Grass (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
Style: road movie, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: lovers on the run, summer, road trip, travel, fugitive, partner, friends, on the run, heist, chases and races, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.5
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Strays (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: urban, drug dealer, hunting, redemption, gang, male nudity, fall in love, social misfits, coming of age, hopes, introspection, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: gangster, friendship, friends, mafia, love affair, coming of age, youth, murder, revenge, city life, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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What Alice Found (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky
Plot: prostitute, on the road, adultery, family life, small town, on the run, social misfits, society, youth, cons and scams, pimp, friendship ...
Time: year 2003
Place: new hampshire, massachusetts, florida, usa, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Saints and Sinners (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friends, couples, love triangle, working undercover, friendship, drug abuse, going straight, dishonesty, master criminal, love and romance, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.4
 22K
Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Bridge to Nowhere (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of 20-something blue-collar workers in Pittsburgh cook up a scheme to make extra money that involves prostitution. Their business takes off, then gets way out of hand.
Style: serious, rough, suspense, bleak, realistic
Plot: prostitute, working class, friendship, illegal prostitution, society, rise and fall, danger, coming of age, escapades, life is a bitch, woman peeing, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Sonny (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, disturbing, erotic ...
Plot: gigolo, prostitute, older woman younger man relationship, pimp, haunted by the past, parents and children, family life, military life, society, ex soldier, homosexual, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1981
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.3
 493
Federal Hill (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style: black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, life is a bitch, fall in love, going straight, society, drug dealing ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Sunchaser (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A young half-Navajo convict (Jon Seda) dying of cancer forces a yuppie (Woody Harrelson) doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
Style: road movie, melancholic, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, native american, healing power, road trip, justice, hostage, on the road, juvenile delinquent, doctors and patients, self discovery, desert ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.9
 83K
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style: road movie, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: one last job, mafia, crime gone awry, gangster, organized crime, hitman, redemption, gunfight, disorder, hopes, caper, revenge ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: usa, colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 2.0
 6K
The Hillz (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style: serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: white trash, drug dealing, student athlete, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, youth, gang ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.5
 20K
Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.9
 20K
River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
 9K
Old Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, lyrical, talky, realistic ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, map, partner, buddies, hopes, couple relations, human nature, self discovery, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, los angeles, europe, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.2
 118
Turn of Faith (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mob drama starring Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, Mia Sara and Costas Mandylor.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, buddies, family business, clergy, dishonesty, organized crime, partner, friends, gangster, strip club, baseball bat
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style: emotional, harsh, rough, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 80s, y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style: road movie, humorous, action thriller, light, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heist, chase, treasure hunt, on the road, car chase, buddy, robbery, bank robbery, rivalry, preacher, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Out-of-Sync (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, hood ...
Plot: drug dealing, hip hop, police, gambling, law enforcement, dishonesty, love triangle, false accusation, cons and scams, on the run, going straight, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Doom Generation (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
Style: erotic, disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lovers on the run, on the road, sex, lgbt, satanist, sex slave, surrealism, road trip, dark humor, forced sex, golden retriever, mistaken identity ...
Time: near future, 90s
Place: seattle, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Hollywood Flies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Life is the buzz.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, chase, crime gone awry, murder, heist, couples, hitman, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, missing person ...
Place: las vegas, usa, los angeles, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A delinquent teenager's only link to society is the attachment he feels towards an older brother-figure. When the older boy starts spending time with a new girlfriend, the teenager begins to feel even more alienated, and gets involved with ...
Style: retro, realistic, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, punk rock, punk, street gang, street punk, alienation, juvenile delinquent, coming of age, youth, family relations, friendship, partner ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
Style: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenager, cheerleader, visceral, mentor, unlikely friendships, adolescence, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.8
 17K
Grand Canyon (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, anthology, spiritual ...
Plot: adoption, midlife crisis, unrequited love, friendship, grand canyon, cynicism, teen angst, regret, father son relationship, compassion, rescue, interracial friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.1
 6K
The Gambler (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Style: suspense, intense, tense, clever, realistic ...
Plot: addiction, gambling addiction, college, character study, debt, gambling debt, casino, bookies, gambling, hopes, gangster, bet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, las vegas, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Ash Wednesday (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style: intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, betrayal, gangster, violence, murder, love triangle, couple relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, dishonesty, siblings relations, irish mob ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place: new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.5
 709
Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.2
 13K
Belly (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style: hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, african american gangster, hip hop, gangster, urban, african american, ghetto, black, drug, violence, drug dealer, gang ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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