Movies like Fast Talking

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Fast Talking (1984)
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Fast Talking (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: motorcycle, con artists, troubled teen, drug dealing, teenage boy, teacher student relationship, corporal punishment, ex convict, school principal, running from police, stealing a car, school expulsion, dog, teenager, train, student, blonde, rock band, graffiti, alcoholic, swimming, boy, theft, heroin, female teacher ...
Place: australia

Most similar movies to Fast Talking

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and crying films with plots about cigarette smoking, apology, opening a door, telephone call, night, lying on bed and telephone mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Fast Talking: The FJ Holden (1977), Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964), Annie's Coming Out (1984), Unfinished Business (1984), Wedding in White (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The FJ Holden (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks ...
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: carsploitation, car, teenage girl, bare butt, teensploitation, television reporter, gas station, italian man, sex in car, security guard, police sergeant, tv reporter ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is ...
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: disability, voice over narration, assassination attempt, dog, countdown, doctor, court, lawyer, young couple, boy, man with glasses, courtroom ...
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: photograph, family abandonment, husband wife relationship, separation, bare chested male, young boy, tram, care, queen elizabeth ii, blue collar, sadness, only child ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Goin' Down the Road (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, friends, female nudity, survival, train, waitress, snow, bowling, pregnancy, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 70s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: redemption, coming of age, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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High Tide (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, biting, touching ...
Plot: woman, women, youth, surfing, ocean, car trouble, life is a bitch, redemption, social misfits, unfulfillment, family relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Split Image (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Style: spiritual, retro, independent film, weird
Plot: religion, hidden treasure, occult, atheism, religions or cults, true love, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, photography, blonde, van, photograph ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Handyman (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles ...
Plot: two brothers, boy, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, sandwich, adultery, golf club, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, singing, telephone call, roommate ...
Time: year 1980
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Captain Johnno (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
Style: children's story
Plot: coming of age, youth, deaf, young boy, physical disability, town, deaf child, man with glasses, teaching, priest, disability, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Squizzy Taylor (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
Style: crying, period piece, independent film
Plot: death of killer, breaking the law, death of protagonist, short man, urban setting, man with glasses, blond, crime victim, accountant, world war one veteran, unhappy ending, mirror ...
Time: year 1982, 1910s, 1920s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: fashion, model, photographer, fashion industry, fashion model, mental illness, photograph, modeling, photography, drug addiction, character study, sex crime ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy ...
Style: anamorphic, emotional, touching, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, orphan, dysfunctional family, custody, life is a bitch, parents and children, bad father, adoption, redheaded woman, single parent ...
Time: year 1983, 1930s, 1920s
Place: australia, new south wales, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Hotel Sorrento (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: beach, sibling relationship, couples, writers, seaside town, family reunited, love triangle, family secret, drowning, youth, elderly, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, london, england, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Hard Knocks (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: woman, photographer, flashback, cigarette smoking, young, camera, man slaps a woman
Time: year 1980
Place: melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Running on Empty (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racing for his girl, his money and his life. Through racing, sex, nightclubs and small road trips the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: car, love triangle, car chase, carsploitation, automobile, speed, racing, gangster, wooing, factory, love and romance, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Nordsee ist Mordsee (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 14-year old Uwe lives in s suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to expect from his parents. To get his hands on some money, he prizes open vending machines, and to let out his frustration he beats up ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, north sea, teenager, teenage runaway, raft, juvenile delinquency, runaway, thievery, foreigner, sailing, runaway teen, gay interest ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A nameless young character travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to daily mundane activities.
Style: independent film
Plot: voyeurism, voyeur, art, minimal dialogue, filling station, glacier, train station, lake, solitude, subway, boredom, auto repair ...
Place: los angeles, san francisco, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Walkout (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the students decide to stage a peaceful walkout to protest the injustices of the public school system. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, political ...
Plot: politics, discrimination, society, righting the wronged, fighting the system, teachers and students, lifestyle, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, activism, resistance, high school ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns. Rita, Sue And Bob Too was adapted by Andrea Dunbar from two of her own controversial plays. Rita (Siobhan ...
Style: independent film, sex comedy, avant garde, cult classic, sexy ...
Plot: married man, sexual relations, sexual promiscuity, infidelity, schoolgirl, kitchen sink realism, affair, working class, sex with teenager, husband wife relationship, friendship between girls, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 1K
Softie (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young ...
Style: social
Plot: coming of age, gay crush, boy, lgbt, gay, teenager, lgbtq, boyhood, little boy, teacher student relationship, blond boy, museum ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a camp in outback Australia. They swear, brawl, gamble, and drink heavily. ...
Style: fast paced, independent film
Plot: alcoholism, fugitive, bare chested male, fighter, fistfight, fight, mine, worker, martial arts training, crew, martial arts, outback ...
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Term of Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Weir, an alcoholic schoolteacher, whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career, is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. ...
Style: crying, detective
Plot: lawyer, traumatic childhood, first love, drug addiction, teenage crush, teacher, unrequited love, bad mother, photography, tram, conscientious objector, defense attorney ...
Place: paris france, england, northern england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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