Movies like The Trip 2010

If you like "The Trip" you are looking for road movie, humorous and melancholic movies about / with on the road, road trip, existentialism, eccentricity, friendship, food and loneliness themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in UK.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Trip (2010)
 7.0
 23K
The Trip (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Style: road movie, humorous, melancholic, funny, surreal, visually appealing, semi serious, witty, talky, cynical ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, existentialism, eccentricity, friendship, food, loneliness, midlife crisis, sarcasm, restaurant, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, cooking, countryside, chef, wine, beautiful scenery, twists and turns, comedian, gay, travel, nature, self discovery, inspiration, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, northern england, london
Keyword: buddy movie

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to The Trip

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and road movie films with plots about friends, friendship, on the road, restaurant, food, lifestyle and road trip mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Trip: Sideways (2004), Withnail & I (1987), A Cock and Bull Story (2005), Love's Kitchen (2011), I Really Hate My Job (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 7.5
 203K
Sideways (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Style: road movie, talky, dark comedy, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: road trip, wine, on the road, friendship, couples, vineyard, vacation, divorce, infidelity, golf, food, buddy ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, bay area, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
60%
 8.0
 8K
The Trip (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: The Trip is a television sitcom series first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD in the United Kingdom. The series stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves undertaking a restaurant tour of northern England. The partly ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, cynical ...
Plot: travel, comedian, food, actor, actor's life, artists and showbiz, impersonating, fame, career, buddies, odd couple, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Trip to Italy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: character study, restaurant, on the road, food, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, wine, art, dialogue, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
food movies
3169
funny movies
7594
loneliness movies
5242
The Trip to Spain (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
Style: road movie, humorous, feel good, light, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: restaurant, food, friendship, travel, friends, friendship between men, escapades, critic, society, actor, chef, wine ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Trip to Greece (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Actors Rob Byrdon and Steve Coogan continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, clever, visually appealing, funny ...
Plot: friendship, restaurant, food, tourist, on the road, actor, british, flirting, life, travel, resort, chef ...
Place: greece, europe, macedonia, switzerland, himalaya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars ...
Style: humorous, witty, talky, funny, ironic ...
Plot: filmmaking, adaptation, art, creativity, storytelling, couples, artists and showbiz, showbiz, rehearsal, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Love's Kitchen (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, english countryside, wine, gourmet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sexy woman, workplace, waitress, friendship, love and romance, aging, introspection, midlife crisis, workplace romance, public nudity, female nudity, restaurant ...
Place: england, london, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 165
Downhill (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, road movie, fake documentary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, friends, buddies, disorder, self discovery, escapades, farce, midlife crisis, on the road, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 18K
Le Chef (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Style: light, sentimental, funny, sweet, touching ...
Plot: cooking, chef, wine, restaurant, food, mentor, creativity, love, culture clash, underdog, fight scenes, partner ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Plot: food, friendship, isolation, lifestyle, workplace situations, buddies, workplace, forces of nature, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, cookery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 40K
The Guilt Trip (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style: light, road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, on the road, mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, middle east, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Intimate Stories (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style: road movie, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, self discovery, friendship, friends, rise to the top, redemption, hopes, human nature, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.8
 18K
Bottle Shock (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out ...
Style: feel good, light, factual, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: wine, vineyard, beautiful scenery, friendship, family business, ambition, escapades, intern, contests and competitions, workplace, love affair, winery ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, california, usa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.7
 9K
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 ⇓
40%
Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: self discovery, introspection, on the road, best friend, social relations, goofy hero, hitchhiking, travel, inspiration, screenwriter, silly humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
 7.0
 2K
Rubin and Ed (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ...
Style: dark comedy, road movie, cult classic, psychotronic, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, desert, on the road, loner, surrealism, quirky character, name calling, travel, cat, salesman, friendship, weirdo ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: utah, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.8
 1K
Heartlands (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, light ...
Plot: cheating on husband, love, infidelity, self discovery, obsessive quest, couples, love and romance, on the road, countryside, relationships, romantic triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.4
 4K
How to Be (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: introspection, coming of age, self discovery, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, youth, musician, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Style: surreal, captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: odd couple, friendship, isolation, friends, partner, wilderness, haunted by the past, on the road, buddies, introspection, escapades, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Tour de Force (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
chef movies
621
wine movies
1902
england movies
3698
witty movies
4558
 7.4
 11K
Life Is Sweet (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style: sentimental, independent film, compassionate, sweet, funny ...
Plot: working class, food, secret lover, dysfunctional family, rebellious daughter, class differences, depression, family drama, restaurant, compassion, family relations, eating disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
 3K
Kamome Diner (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: food, cooking and food, diner, starting over, friendship, restaurant, hopes, small business, cafe, lifestyle, workplace situations, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, japan, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
Style: philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, minimal cast, existential ...
Plot: conversation, restaurant, philosophy, food, existentialism, art, dialogue, cooking, dinner, realism, transcendence, occult ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, poland, middle east, manhattan new york city, sahara ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Burn Burn Burn (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, exciting, light
Plot: death of friend, road trip, friendship, nature, funeral, terminal illness, cancer, ashes, woman, on the road, hitchhiker, secret ...
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 9K
Dear Diary (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
Style: surreal, intellectual, melancholic, satirical, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: motorcycle, eccentricity, multiple storylines, self discovery, diary, introspection, midlife crisis, lifestyle, terminal illness, friendship, artists and showbiz, cancer ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: singer, friendship, buddies, countryside, small town, friends, music, artists and showbiz, beautiful scenery, real life
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie