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Desert Blue (1998)
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Desert Blue (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than expected because of an accident that spilled an unknown cola ingredient all over the highway. They spend the next few days with the various residents of the town which include a teenage girl who loves to blow things up and a boy trying to keep alive his fathers dream of building a beachside resort in the middle of the desert.
Style: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, romantic, road movie, sexy, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, small town, desert, death, drinking, fbi, fire, suburbs, bomb, youth, friends, teenage life, coming of age, small town life, toxic, race, revenge, ufo, mountain, police officer, police, truck, racecar driver, storm, water ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 70s, 1990s
Place: california, usa, texas
Keyword: pipe, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, independent film and serious films with plots about family relations, friendship, youth, coming of age, drink, drinking and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Desert Blue: Just Like the Son (2006), The Last Best Sunday (1999), Hurricane Streets (1997), Tully (2000), Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
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The Last Best Sunday (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Hispanic teenager hides out from the law in the home of a good-natured, but rebellious, Caucasian teenage girl after killing two rednecks whom beat him up and left him for dead, leading to a collision of cultures between the two youths.
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot: erotica, forbidden love, small town, murder, racism, interracial relations, on the run, opposites attract, unlikely criminals, vengeance, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, road trip, highway, salesman, self discovery, desert, friendship, deaf man ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
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Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Reach the Rock (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, grudge, social decay, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
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Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, crying
Plot: student athlete, evil child, high school, murder, friendship, american football, abusive husband, high school football, best friend, friends, social relations, kids in trouble ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, usa
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Swimming (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, couple relations, fall in love, self discovery, teenage life, teenage love, small town life, best friend, lesbian sex, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style: dark comedy, emotional, stylized, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, suicide, gay, family secret, loneliness, parenthood, family drama, family problems, society, youth, loss of son ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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First, Last and Deposit (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Tessa (Jessica White) faces more than the usual tribulations of adolescence. When bad times hit, she and her mother find themselves living on the streets. The injustice of poverty is emphasized by the fact that Tessa's school ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, touching, independent film ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, working class, family relations, survival, eviction, school, corporate crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Luminous Motion (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: coming of age, road trip, bad father, family relations, on the road, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, family problems, single parent, parents and children, store, friendship ...
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
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Just a Dream (2002)
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Country: USA
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Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 80s
Place: illinois
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Mall (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir ...
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
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Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Garage (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: small town, society, friendship, social relations, misfit, angst, village, loneliness, friends, coming of age, village life, teenage life ...
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The Dynamiter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
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Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
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Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
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