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Roads (2019)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe's borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British runaway who pinched his stepfather's recreational vehicle in order to escape from a family holiday. On their journey, the disparate duo have to make decisions that will also influence the lives of others.
Style:
road movie, captivating, disturbing, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
unlikely friendships, teenage boy, coming of age, motor home, journey, road trip, teenager, travel, teenage life, escapades, border crossing, juvenile delinquency, friendship, migration, realism, social realism, survival, desperation, outsider, runaway teen, identity, empathy, hopes, minimalism, isolation ...
Time:
year 2019, contemporary
Place:
morocco, france, europe, congo, north africa
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Most similar movies to Roads
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out road movie, melancholic, captivating and emotional films with plots about coming of age, friendship, road trip, journey, isolation, identity and survival mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Roads: West Coast (2016), Keep Going (2018), Gasoline Rainbow (2023), Miracle Seller (2009), The Thin Yellow Line (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, heartfelt
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, small town, teenager, group of friends, teenage boy, grownups, adolescence, teenage life, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, small town life ...
Place:
france, brittany
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95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sybille, a divorced mother, can't stand watching her teenage son Samuel slip into a violent and meaningless life. She is also struggling with her own demons, past and present. As a last resort, she takes Samuel on a long journey across ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
hiking, hopes, family drama, lifestyle, travel, wildlife, family problems, camping trip, social problems, nature, family relations, road trip ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, independent film, melancholic, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
road trip, friendship, teenage boy, group of friends, small town, teenager, coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenage life, friends, adolescence, lifestyle ...
Place:
oregon, pacific ocean, portland oregon
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcoholism, search for father, journey, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, redemption, recovery, refugee, family drama, personal growth ...
Place:
poland, france, eastern europe
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five men are hired to paint the yellow line the road between two villages in Mexico forgotten. Aboard an old pickup truck, initiated the work of more than two hundred kilometers of asphalt and yellow paint to be completed in less than a fortnight
Style:
existential, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
road trip, character study, journey, on the road, working class, social problems, workplace, society, coworker, workplace situations, co worker co worker relationship, small town life ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
(Russian with English subtitles) The show is under way in the circus arena. But there is agitation behind the curtain: the audience's darling, Bodhi the elephant has fallen ill. The next morning a trailer arrives to pick Bodhi up. But his sad ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, melancholic, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
elephant, circus, heartwarming, empathy, journey, kindness, companionship, friendship, road trip, humanity, slice of life, travel ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young addict is convinced by his best friend to train-hop across the country in hopes of finding the buried treasure that they talked about when they were kids. One is self-destructive and the other is blind, neither of them expected a small-town ...
Style:
road movie, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, travel, dream, journey, friendship, character study, self discovery, drug addiction, regret, isolation, train travel, coming of age ...
Similarity:
68%
216
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Style:
compassionate, emotional, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
friendship, road trip, character study, poverty, working class, social realism, realism, humanism, coming of age, class differences, male bonding, social commentary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, ...
Style:
road movie, funny, humorous, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, road trip, friendship, cross country, encounter, escapades, disorder, friendship between men, nothing goes right, male friendship, male bonding, on the road ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that Far’Hook acts as driver for Bilal’s father, Serge, on a tour of French ports, following in ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, psychological, disturbing, reflective ...
Plot:
road trip, intergenerational friendship, culture clash, travel, friendship, rap, relationship problems, cultural difference, generation gap, rapper, unlikely friendships, personal growth ...
Place:
france, marseille, paris france
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, coming of age, teenager, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, teenage life, dream world, maturation ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A refugee struggles hard to find an identity for himself in order to accomplish his dreams.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, realistic, road movie ...
Plot:
refugee, identity, character study, humanity, resilience, empathy, soul searching, social issues, migration, journey, hopes, realism ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt, Austria, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
Style:
road movie, realistic, poignant, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
arab, leprosy, disability, friendship, journey, humanism, isolation, compassion, outcast, odyssey, buddy, social realism ...
Place:
middle east, maghreb, egypt
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
Style:
road movie, realistic, talky, sentimental, touching
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, father daughter relationship, mother daughter estrangement, road trip, self discovery, parent child relationship, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, teenage life, journey, estrangement, single father ...
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
Style:
sentimental, contemplative, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
surfing, coming of age, surf, self discovery, youth, teenage life, escapades, friendship, society, road trip, on the road, surfer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, UK, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave ...
Style:
sad, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot:
immigrant, migration, immigration, coming of age, road trip, youth, refugee, family relations, life is a bitch, survival, hopes, human nature ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s
Place:
switzerland, middle east, turkey, europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young boy homeless by tragic misfortune, is taken in by a poor yet loving man. Dylan, now a street-smart maverick yearns for a better future. With the odds stacked against him, Dylan fights to bring hope to his community, and find his place in the ...
Style:
heartfelt, inspirational, emotional
Plot:
struggle, resilience, homelessness, poverty, coming of age, hopes, aspiration, street life, community, survival, urban, friendship ...
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51%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
hopes, danger, fall in love, desert, survival, on the road, rescue, starting over, love and romance, immigrant, follow your dream, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, War
Country: Croatia, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Toda lives in a bakery with her dad and knows everything there is to know about cakes and pastries. Then, one day, her life is turned upside down: her dad is called away unexpectedly to defend his country. In order to stay safe, Toda ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspense, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
journey, child protagonist, escapades, drastic change of life, family relations, travel, military, wartime, changing lives, search for mother, road trip, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Film takes us deep inside the world of Latvian teenagers in 90s: combining the intimate diary of a teenager Jānis trying to find himself by joining a subculture, as well as a skillful, detailed and almost documentary-like depiction of the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, identity, teenager, youth culture, outsider, friendship, rebellion, identity crisis, nostalgia, subculture, intimate ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latvia, eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
prison, family drama, redemption, fatherhood, children, loss, male protagonist, grief, second chance, ex convict, road trip, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new ...
Style:
contemplative, pastoral, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
teacher, social realism, humanism, village life, teacher student relationship, literary, community, bittersweet, nostalgia, memory, journey, minimalism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from ...
Style:
road movie, thrilling, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
road trip, ornithologist, bird, friendship, journey, obsessive quest, adventurer, animal, teamwork, character study, personal growth, odd couple ...
Place:
spain, valencia spain, romania
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
wilderness, friendship, survival, travel, canyon, nature, unfulfillment, group of friends, ancient mystery, search and rescue, tourist, vacation ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a Summer shared by six young people. It all begins with their escapes from the bleak and dreary City. Each one of them escapes East of Hell... to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine beach. The clean beach brings ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, coming of age, buddies, escapades, escape from reality, escape, summer, youth, society, self discovery, sea ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take ...
Style:
independent film, dark, bleak, period piece, road movie
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
hitchhiking, road trip, coming of age, runaway, journey, naivete, survival, street life, desperation, prostitution, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern california, venice california
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, young man, illegal drugs, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, changing lives, teenager, drug dealer, teenage boy, lifestyle change, coming of age ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, melancholic, reflective, existential ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, house, boredom, adolescence, teenager, teenage life, relationship problems, life is a bitch, escape, drifting ...
Similarity:
40%
34
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Dominican Republic, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The coming of age journey of Samuel, a young Haitian boy whose life takes a tragic turn when his father is kidnapped, and he then decides to travel to the United States and Canada to find his mother.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, intercultural, road movie ...
Plot:
journey, coming of age, immigration, exile, family drama, social issues, survival, child protagonist, identity, grief, resilience, childhood trauma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
haiti, north america, canada, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bébé Tigre is Many, a 17-year-old Indian boy who has been living in France for two years. A teenager like any other, he divides his time between school, friends, and his girlfriend. But the pressures placed on him by his parents in India force him ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, tension, serious, touching ...
Plot:
youth, immigrant, coming of age, illegal immigrant, social realism, integration, identity, slice of life, city life, multiculturalism, empathy, identity crisis ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
39%
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