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Earthly Possessions (1999)
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Earthly Possessions (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As things progress, she learns he pulled the robbery to get enough money to help his pregnant girlfriend leave a home for unwed mothers. The two have a brief flirtation, but it is clear the housewife just needs something to enliven her life.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, suspense, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, corny
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, hostage, escape, on the road, heist, pregnancy, love and romance, money, bank, kidnapping, kidnapped, age-gap relationship, opposites attract, minister, family relations, couples, bittersweet, couple relations, dancing, bank robbery, prison escape, thief, fight, police officer, cat ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, husband wife relationship, theft, love, cigarette smoking and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Earthly Possessions: White Palace (1990), Slingshot (2005), Simple Men (1992), Love the Hard Way (2001), Kill Me Later (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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White Palace (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, relationships, erotica, obsession, older woman younger man, love, infidelity, bittersweet, dating, seductive ...
Time: 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
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24%
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Simple Men (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost ...
Style: road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, transformation, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, missing person, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, on the road, husband wife relationship, friendship, eccentricity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: usa, new york, florida, maryland, pennsylvania ...
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24%
Love the Hard Way (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, student life, cons and scams, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friendship, friend, secret ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
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Kill Me Later (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a ...
Style: entertaining, light, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: heist, opposites attract, couples, police, bank, criminal heroes, love affair, fish out of water, hostage, stockholm syndrome, adultery, on the run ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: vancouver
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Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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21%
In All Innocence (1998)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, psychological, sexual, gloomy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: female nudity, love affair, heist, family relations, couples, destructive relationship, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, dishonesty, legal, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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21%
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Bandits (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, friendship, love triangle, on the run, bank robber, stockholm syndrome, bored housewife, thief, caper, prison, hostage, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, oregon, usa, mexico
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20%
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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20%
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B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
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20%
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
Style: melancholic, bleak, tense, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot: police officer, fugitives, prison, love triangle, chase, criminal heroes, escapades, on the road, passion, love, relationships, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: texas, midwest, usa
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Traveller (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and ...
Style: road movie, neo noir, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: home invasion, funeral, drifter, grandmother grandson relationship, trailer home, female bartender, widower, single mother, mentor protege relationship, con men, gypsy, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: north carolina, louisville kentucky, usa
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19%
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Moonlight Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, clever, art film ...
Plot: murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, fall in love, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa
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Atlantic City (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
Plot: casino, gangster, gambling, mobster, older man younger woman relationship, drug, murder, mafia, redemption, bittersweet, age difference, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, philadelphia, atlantic city new jersey
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19%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
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19%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
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19%
Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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19%
Speedway Junky (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good ...
Plot: male prostitution, friendship, gay, scam, male prostitute, best friend, teenage life, bare chested male, gay interest, gay friend, high school life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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18%
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Love Child (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere
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The Simian Line (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the ...
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
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Feast of July (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
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Style: stylized, talky, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, soldier, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations, love triangle, down on your luck, wartime life, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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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
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18%
Hot Summer Nights (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Style: captivating, exciting, humorous, light, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: summer, drug dealer, teenage protagonist, coming of age, friendship, teenager, party, brother sister relationship, cape cod massachusetts, drug, father daughter relationship, orphan ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place: massachusetts, new york, boston, connecticut, nevada ...
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18%
Niagara, Niagara (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Niagra, Niagra" begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film's disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. She literally crashes into Seth, a quiet outsider, also on a shoplifting spree. Marcie invites Seth to ...
Style: road movie, melancholic, intense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, love story, pharmacy, pharmacist, love and romance, mental illness, couples, couple relations, disability, lovers on the run, social misfits ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: canada, new york state, toronto ontario canada, new york
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18%
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Queen & Slim (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a ...
Style: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 2010s, year 2019
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18%
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couple relations, couples, vietnam war, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, near future, 60s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, provence ...
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18%
Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
Style: independent film
Plot: lolita, robbery, bank, money, naivete, con artists, town, criminal, cowboy, theft, bank robbery, heist ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style: black and white, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, older woman younger man relationship, self discovery, teenager, elopement, nostalgia, graduation, death, depression ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1951 ...
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, oklahoma ...
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18%
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