Movies like Paper Moon

If you like "Paper Moon" you are looking for road movie, sentimental and black and white movies about / with father daughter relationship, friendship, great depression, mischievous children, orphan, girl and road trip themes of Comedy, Crime and Drama genre shot in USA.
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Paper Moon (1973)
 8.1
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Paper Moon (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Style: road movie, sentimental, black and white, touching, humorous, funny, witty, talky, period piece, dorama ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: father daughter relationship, friendship, great depression, mischievous children, orphan, girl, road trip, tomboy, con men, on the road, bible, carnival, con man, con artists, loneliness, coming of age, childhood, little girl, death of mother, affection, reluctant hero, precocious child, scam, family relations, odd couple ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, 70s, 30s
Place: missouri, kansas, usa
Keyword: americana, oldies, partners

Most similar movies to Paper Moon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about family relations, friends, youth, friendship, coming of age, profanity and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Paper Moon: Mickybo and Me (2004), A Simple Twist of Fate (1994), Mystery Train (1989), The Sting (1973), Identity Thief (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, society, obsession, political unrest, boyhood, friends, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American Girl" theatrical movie. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, inspirational, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, journalism, children, coming of age, youth, school, teacher, family relations, life philosophy, follow your dream, family life, american girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1934
Place: ohio, cincinnati ohio, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, family comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: adoption, single father, redemption, hopes, teacher, child hero, manipulation, in love, fall in love, coin, unrequited love, adopted daughter ...
Time: 80s, year 1994, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: virginia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mystery Train (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Style: independent film, anthology, humorous, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: hotel, tourist, train, hotel room, ghost, rock and roll, robbery, cafe, recording studio, hotel desk clerk, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, armed robbery ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 278K
The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.7
 140K
Identity Thief (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Style: road movie, funny, hilarious, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, identity, stupidity, stolen identity, nothing goes right, escapades, women's prison, foul language, bounty hunter, cons and scams, female criminal, male female friendship ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, colorado, miami, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
24%
 6.8
 20K
The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, sister sister relationship, orphan, world war one, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, chambermaid, deep south, family life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.3
 138K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: psychological, feel good, entertaining, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, cons and scams, mental illness, con men, heist, greed, slick, plot twist, psychology, father daughter relationship, obsession ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
Style: clever, feel good, funny, humorous, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: con artists, con men, rivalry, cons and scams, bet, twists and turns, competition, farce, caper, high society, gigolo, entrepreneur ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: french riviera, france, arizona, riviera, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Little Darlings (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Style: cult classic, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, deep ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, summer camp, teenage sex, friendship, high school, teenager, sex, camp, summer, youth, loss of virginity, innocence lost ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 251K
The Descendants (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sad, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, dying mother, bittersweet, family relations, cheating wife, greed, parenthood, family drama, estate ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Style: inspirational, intense, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, underdog, youth, baseball coach, coach, childhood, competition, unlikely friendships, sport team, motorcycle, human spirit, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small ...
Style: touching, sentimental, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: small town, dog, father daughter relationship, animal, childhood, children, pets, loneliness, single father, beautiful scenery, mischievous children, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Anywhere But Here (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, single mother, teenager, bittersweet, small town, daughter ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a ...
Style: hilarious, funny, romantic, fast paced, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hotel, car chase, screwball, chase, judge, love story, manic pixie dream girl, destiny, love triangle, farce, mistaken identity, eternal love ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 2K
Faithful (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style: talky, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Plot: loneliness, female protagonist, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, marriage, adultery, depression, killer, assassin ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 14K
Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 6.4
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Big Daddy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style: funny, sentimental, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: adoption, child's point of view, parenthood, immaturity, single father, responsibility, childhood, orphan, adolescence, slacker, children, mentor ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.9
 88K
My Girl (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sad ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, single parent, children, kids and family, single father, family relations, love ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1991, year 1972, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style: feel good, road movie, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic ...
Plot: holocaust, on the road, journey, culture clash, nazi, collector, self discovery, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: ukraine, eastern europe, europe, berlin germany, odessa ukraine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 289K
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English ...
Style: feel good, touching, funny, hilarious, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: cross dressing, divorce, nanny, comedy of errors, children, kids and family, transvestite, gender, family relations, custody battle, single father, gender disguise ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
 49K
Annie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time: year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 3K
Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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