Movies like Easy Rider
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Easy Rider (1969)
116K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style:
road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, offbeat, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, hippie, on the road, motorcycle, friendship, biker, marijuana, existentialism, freedom, rock music, rebelliousness, drifter, self discovery, hallucination, hitchhiker, journey, stoner, rock and roll, redneck, mardi gras, brothel, lsd, drug addiction, drug, prison ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, california, usa, arizona, southern usa, louisiana ...
Keyword:
americana, oldies, reboot, avant-garde, partners, challenge
Most similar movies to Easy Rider
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, road movie, serious and cult classic films with plots about on the road, road trip, misfit, female nudity, friendship, friends and self discovery mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Easy Rider: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Roadside Prophets (1992), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Into the Wild (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style:
road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, road trip, on the road, racing, mechanic, character study, classic car, carsploitation, life philosophy, auto mechanic, hitchhiker, desert ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, road movie, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, addiction, psychedelia, trippy, surrealism, american dream, hallucination, drug, journalist ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz ...
Style:
road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
motorcycle, desert, on the road, biker, hotel, road trip, life philosophy, friendship, bike, obsession, journey, loner ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
nevada, usa, seattle, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style:
road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot:
self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
655K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Movies like The Shawshank Redemption
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
motorcycle, motorcycle race, biker, jealousy, murder, bike, outlaw, bar fight, love triangle, exploitation, gang, stoner ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
california, usa, oakland california, san francisco, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
cat, aging, runaway, elderly, friendship, on the road, old age, redemption, bittersweet, senior citizen, american history, chess ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york state, new york, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot:
motorcycle, biker, father son relationship, world war two veteran, patriotism, dysfunctional family, road trip, family relations, family problems, estrangement, buddies, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, mexico, california, arizona, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
184K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, emotional, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, organized crime, drug, drug dealer, drug lord, 9/11, betrayal, freedom, redemption, great ending, mistrust, prison ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Fight Club
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, teenage boy, on the road, adolescence, coming of age, van, jealousy, naked in public, white trash, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2017, 90s, 2010s
Place:
kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, lsd, deaf, drug, stoner, underground, acid, biker, mental disorder, commune, rock and roll ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
722K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot:
lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, dark comedy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, parenthood, wedding, elderly, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, great ending, workplace, philosophy ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, colorado, denver colorado, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, philosophical, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
friendship, road trip, elderly, terminal illness, unlikely friendships, journey, human spirit, philosophy, bucket list, dying, follow your dream, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa, cote d'azur, tanzania, mount everest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
292K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style:
sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, musician, on the road, rock music, music, rock, musician's life, fame, road trip, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, new york, seattle, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Films like Pulp Fiction
117K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, surreal, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
desert, father son relationship, on the road, road trip, amnesia, relationships, storytelling, parenthood, loneliness, drifter, sibling relationship, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, america, nebraska, midwest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
19K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
drifter, road trip, on the road, friendship, prison, attempted rape, character study, self discovery, violence, introspection, mental breakdown, car wash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, california, denver colorado, detroit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style:
entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in ...
Style:
road movie, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
motorcycle, biker, bike, drug addiction, addiction, road trip, escape, profanity, friends, drug abuse, clinic, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style:
road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Films like Big Fish
2.3M
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
138K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style:
meditative, road movie, uplifting, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, female protagonist, starting over, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, traveler ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, portland oregon, usa, mojave desert, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
103K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating ...
Plot:
journey, native american, cowboy, gunfight, wilderness, murder, indians, on the road, accountant, existentialism, culture clash, modern western ...
Time:
19th century, year 1995, 90s, 1870s, victorian era
Place:
usa, pacific ocean, cleveland ohio, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
119K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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