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Cold Fever (1995)
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Original name: Á köldum klaka
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Iceland, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, bleak, humorous, independent film, spiritual, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, culture clash, winter, snow, death, journey, arctic, spirit, fish out of water, misfit, golf, self discovery, escapades, society, nothing goes right, disorder, anniversary, obsessive quest, new year, dancing, horse, airplane, ghost, cowboy, thief ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
japan, iceland, asia, europe, hawaii, tokyo, reykjavik iceland ...
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Most similar movies to Cold Fever
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and road movie films with plots about friendship, disorder, nude, drinking, drinking alcohol, culture clash and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Cold Fever: Gaudi Afternoon (2001), Fear and Trembling (2003), Children of Nature (1991), Aaltra (2004), Kikujiro (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, entertaining, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
kick-butt women, lesbian, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, creativity, amateur detective, betrayal, farce, translator, comedy of errors, eccentric family, family relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, san francisco, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
employer employee relationship, culture clash, workplace, translator, fish out of water, power relations, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, demotion, friendship, japanese culture, cultural difference ...
Time:
year 1993, year 1991, year 2003, 90s, year 1990
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
retirement home, senior citizen, friends, on the road, boat, old age, yacht, conquering, nordic, ghost, friendship, old people ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, reykjavik iceland, iceland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their ...
Style:
road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
on the road, disability, dark humor, friendship, hospital, misfit, life is a bitch, money, escapades, train, absurd humor, loser ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
finland, belgium, europe, helsinki finland
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style:
road movie, sad, surreal, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
boy, on the road, summer, violence, friendship, child, children, road trip, yakuza, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
36%
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:
anthology, independent film, humorous, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hotel, train, tourist, ghost, hotel room, rock and roll, drinking, recording studio, drunkenness, robbery, cafe, italian woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
memphis, tennessee, usa, rome italy, tokyo ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
food, age-gap relationship, sex, autumn, restaurant, immigration, immigrant, family relations, friendship, culture clash, grandparent grandchild relationship, first time ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
hong kong, canada, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
insubordination, office, mysterious character, boss and employee, workplace, dark humor, fish out of water, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, employer employee relationship, skinny dipping, fired from the job ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the road, disorder, drug abuse, road trip, self discovery, friendship, male nudity, nudity, indifference, coming of age, car thief, friends ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with ...
Style:
harsh, touching, depressing, enigmatic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, family relations, teenage life, unfulfilled love, death, social relations, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, dull life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iceland, new york, singapore, hawaii, cairo egypt
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style:
emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
cemetery, dysfunctional family, disability, vengeance, children, moral ambiguity, segregation, british, justice, existentialism, siblings relations, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, australia ...
Similarity:
27%
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, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, thought provoking, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, male pubic hair, vandalism, free spirit, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, bus, life, stranger, friends ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
chicago, tennessee, new jersey, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, ...
Style:
sincere, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
weed, marijuana, self discovery, medical student, wilderness, family relations, loneliness, fish out of water, addiction, stoner, eccentric family, disorder ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
california, northern california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his ...
Style:
parody, semi serious, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, movie business, disorder, lifestyle, desire for fame, ambition, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, actor's life, showbiz, media satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, europe, france, usa, beverly hills ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set against the ...
Style:
surreal, road movie, humorous, entertaining, stylized ...
Plot:
hitchhiking, lesbian, woman urinating, lgbtq, female nudity, on the road, lgbt, lone hero, multiple storylines, lesbian sex, obsessive quest, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
usa, new york, oregon, richmond virginia, minneapolis minnesota
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Style:
anthology, independent film, intellectual, dark comedy, surreal ...
Plot:
taxi, culture clash, night, taxi driver, immigration, multiple storylines, storytelling, nightlife, blindness, conversation, blind character, friendship ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
paris france, rome italy, helsinki finland, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Style:
sincere, road movie, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, human nature, bittersweet, righting the wronged, selflessness, bribery, redemption, friendship, israeli, hopes, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, romania, europe ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, road movie, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, father son relationship, road trip, death, dysfunctional family, aging ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
Similarity:
23%
16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along ...
Style:
dark comedy, philosophical, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unemployment, gambling, alcoholic, alcoholism, writer's life, alcohol abuse, drinking, lifestyle, down on your luck, life is a bitch, society, bookies ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, captivating, sincere, scenic ...
Plot:
tourette's syndrome, fall in love, partner, friendship, mental illness, obsessive quest, love and romance, unsupportive parent, escapades, social misfits, eating disorder, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany, italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, atmospheric, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
u.s. navy, road trip, sailor, male bonding, beer, buddy, profanity, fighting the system, society, on the road, travel, taxi ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, boston, maine, washington d.c., philadelphia ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Style:
spiritual, existential, gothic, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
preacher, religion, redemption, satire, dream, deep south, religious fanatic, anti christianity, atheist, spirit, success, human development ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
southern usa, georgia
Similarity:
22%
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, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
Similarity:
22%
174
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:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, road movie, fake documentary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
best friend, buddies, friends, friendship, farce, disorder, self discovery, escapades, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, on the road, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, sexual ...
Plot:
favoritism among siblings, dysfunctional family, fisherman, life is a bitch, family problems, family business, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, elderly, small town, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, paris france, reykjavik iceland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, life is a bitch, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, road movie ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
on the road, countryside, friendship, family relations, partner, love and romance, couple relations, misfit, self discovery, buddies, fall in love, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, brittany, galicia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
paralysis, disability, looking for sex, independence, buddies, friendship, road trip, brothel, obsessive quest, self discovery, physical disability, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
21%
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