Movies like Desert Blue
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Desert Blue (1998)
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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:
humorous, romantic, road movie, clever, feel good, sweet, bad ending, melancholic, dramatic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, small town, coming of age, desert, death, catastrophe, teenager, gangsters, relationships, loneliness, writers, depression, obsession, fbi, brothers, bullying, fire, male nudity, gunfight, fantasy world, destiny, brutality, runaway, happy ending, childhood ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 1990s
Place:
california, texas, usa
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Most similar movies to Desert Blue
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, visually appealing and talky films with plots about dialogue, mentor, life philosophy, runaway, redemption, storytelling and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Desert Blue: Whatever (1998), Hurricane Streets (1997), Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993), Tully (2000), Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, bleak, bad ending, visually appealing, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, school, drugs, high school, gang, workplace, adaptation, police investigation, age difference, nude, multiple storylines ...
Time:
80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new york
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95%
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:
realistic, harsh, bad ending, visually appealing, allegory ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, runaway, violence, teenager, children, character study, adolescence, bullying ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
new york, new mexico, new jersey, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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94%
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:
clever, stylized, visually appealing, unusual plot structure, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friends, small town, nude, shopping, solitude, dysfunctional family, weapons, farce, rat, twists and turns, road trip ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arizona, california, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ...
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emotional, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, coming of age, friendship, womanizer, lifestyle, young lovers, introspection, youth, society, couples, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Place:
nebraska, usa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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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:
realistic, talky, enigmatic, depressing, cynical ...
Plot:
college, friendship, male nudity, vietnam war, brutality, runaway, writers, catastrophe, violent, stereotypes, unlikely friendships, vengeance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new hampshire, washington d.c., california, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Style:
sexy, emotional, talky, light, feel good ...
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teens
Plot:
coming of age, small town, circus, carnival, zombie, redemption, eccentricity, adaptation, corruption, brutality, race issues, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, texas, california, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style:
sentimental, talky, thought provoking, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, animal abuse, black man, psychopath, girl power, feminism, ship, suburbs, transformation, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
louisiana, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, teenage girl, high school, youth, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, teenager, high school life, crush, unfulfillment, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, sexy, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, teenager, medical, school, medical school, nude, transformation, love story, writers, violence, fight scenes, doctors ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, americana, love triangle, friendship, human nature, youth, society, family relations, fall in love, working class, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style:
allegory, sexy, feel good, visually appealing, stylized ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, male nudity, sexuality, lone hero, honest, life philosophy, loneliness, mentor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son. Paul is ...
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Place:
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60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After 30 years on the road, a veteran jewellery salesman is forced to show his young replacement the tricks of the trade. But when the kid introduces him to the ladies of the "Altoona Riding Club," the old dog is introduced to a whole new ...
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touching, feel good, cynical, ironic, talky ...
Plot:
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Place:
california, new jersey, australia
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59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
Style:
visually appealing, unusual plot structure, allegory, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
Style:
talky, bleak, stylized, thought provoking, visually appealing ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, revenge, robbery, rainstorm, trust, poker game, loyalty, antique dealer, paranoia, mental illness, adaptation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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, emotional, heartbreaking, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, depression, loneliness, suicide attempt, loss, sadness, nephew, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, death of brother, grief, guardian ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, thought provoking, clever, cerebral, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, sex, girl gang, drug addiction, mentor, loneliness, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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48%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After her husband, Carl, suddenly leaves, Joline travels from New York to Texas to track him down. Although Joline tries to remain upbeat, she is discouraged when she discovers that Carl already has a new girlfriend, the lovely Carmen. Familiarizing ...
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chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
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adultery, obsession, breakup, desert, obsessive quest, love triangle, ambition, self discovery, family relations, couples, human nature, crumbling marriage ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Time:
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42%
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