Movies like Crossing the Bridge
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Crossing the Bridge (1992)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running scheme that goes awry. When things start getting messy, they rue the day they agreed to the venture; instead of smuggling weed from Canada to Detroit, which they'd expected, the threesome's forced to traffic a huge stash of heroin.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, youth, friends, love triangle, drug dealing, betrayal, partners, parents and children, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, addiction, suburbs, society, human nature, lifestyle, buddies, social misfits, high school, redemption, suburban life, homecoming, innocence lost, going straight, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1975
Place:
detroit, usa, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, coming of age, youth, love and romance, lifestyle and bittersweet mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Crossing the Bridge: Going All the Way (1997), The Flats (2002), Kick'n Rush (2003), True Adolescents (2009), The Debut (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
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friendship, youth, love, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, coming of age, homecoming, small town life, adolescence vs adulthood, marriage, male female relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, family relations, society, buddies, lifestyle, youth, friendship between boys, coming of age ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person he wants to become. When his girlfriend kicks him out, he's forced to crash with his Aunt Sharon and is reluctantly enlisted to take her teen ...
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touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky
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lifestyle, family relations, friends, on the road, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, buddies, wilderness, coming of age, thirtysomething life, campfire ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
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humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, witty
Plot:
high school, culture clash, coming of age, friendship, school, high school life, looking for love, couples, social differences, family life, eccentric family, love and romance ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
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date night, teens
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friends, friendship, interracial relations, subway, police, coming of age, buddies, bittersweet, city life, urban ghetto life, racism, womanizer ...
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90s
Place:
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81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, california
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80%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
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humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, high school life, lifestyle, rise to the top, best friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot:
college, lifestyle, follow your dream, culture clash, parents and children, teenage life, friendship, nothing goes right, youth, misfit, society, hopes ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Eddy and Stuart share two-thirds of a dormitory suite. Due to bureaucratic error, a woman named Alex is added to their room. At first, relations among the three are tense. Soon, however, Alex falls for Eddy, and Stuart lusts after Alex.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is ...
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humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a former baseball player. As the two ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
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Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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teens
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, looking for love, teenage love, hopes, suburban life, teenage life, love and romance, lifestyle, society, suburbs ...
Time:
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Place:
detroit, usa
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69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, going straight, love affair, redemption, family in crisis, human nature, addiction, estrangement, couples, family problems, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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