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Wrong Move (1975)
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Original name: Falsche Bewegung
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Style:
road movie, spiritual, manga, art house, postmodern, cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
train, cat, bicycle, existential loneliness, on the road, girl man relationship, writers, beach, teenage girl, blood, poem, suicide by hanging, voice over narration, art, past, suicide, spirituality, troubled relationship, politics, memory loss, love and romance, self discovery, teenage life, contests and competitions, hidden identity ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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Most similar movies to Wrong Move
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, road movie, touching and serious films with plots about on the road, self discovery, journey, love and romance, friendship, family relations and female nudity mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like Wrong Move: Kings of the Road (1976), Alice in the Cities (1974), Paris, Texas (1984), The State of Things (1982), Knife in the Head (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, contemplative, art house, spiritual ...
Plot:
on the road, male pubic hair, male nudity, travel, cat, existential loneliness, cinema, bus, border, caught masturbating, loneliness, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, berlin germany, europe, german democratic republic
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, stylized, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, intimacy, road trip, rock concert, child abandonment, strong female character, travel ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, amsterdam, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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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, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish ...
Style:
black and white, contemplative, spiritual, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, children, art, chaos, film industry, film producer, spirituality, showbiz, nuclear holocaust, disorder, nothing goes right, chases and races ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, germany, portugal, usa, europe
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40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
Style:
touching, emotional, road movie, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
on the road, communism, birthday, hopes, self discovery, immigrant, fall in love, migration, grandfather grandson relationship, travel, car accident, european ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
serbia, eastern europe, germany, europe, italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with ...
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, memory loss, infidelity, politics, terrorism, law enforcement, dishonesty, self discovery, life is a bitch, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, midlife crisis, starting over, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, human nature, society, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, existential loneliness, nude girl, filmmaking, modernism, lgbtq, woman, woman peeing ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
france, brussels, germany, belgium, europe ...
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, touching, scenic, captivating ...
Plot:
travel, on the road, countryside, journey, hitchhiking, strike, self discovery, hopes, student, journalist, survival, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ecuador, andes mountains
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Hungary, France, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two ...
Style:
touching, road movie, philosophical, visually stunning, sentimental ...
Plot:
spirituality, desert, human spirit, religions or cults, destiny, mysterious place, lost love, poetry, granddaughter, grandfather, on the road, storytelling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, tunisia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
on the road, youth, children, soldier, siblings relations, life is a bitch, human nature, mother daughter relationship, greek, father daughter relationship, pursuit, fear ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
germany, greece, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan "Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
dog, dog training, animal sex, unemployment, on the road, love and romance, bittersweet, friends, countryside, self discovery, friendship, road trip ...
Place:
south america, argentina, patagonia
Similarity:
28%
314
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, indie film, independent film ...
Plot:
fall in love, self discovery, human nature, on the road, artists and showbiz, writer's life, lifestyle, road trip, friendship, loner, desert, eccentricity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the ...
Style:
sexy, touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
suicide, death, fall in love, teenage life, love and romance, family relations, couples, on the road, haunted by the past, youth, human nature, sister ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, paris france, france, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
colonial america, forbidden love, infidelity, immigrant, love and romance, couple relations, clergy, dishonesty, society, betrayal, life is a bitch, couples ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, spain, salem massachusetts
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, road movie, anthology, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train, exploring sexuality, aids, teenage girl, infidelity, actor, time travel, satire, dark humor, doctors and patients, self discovery, politics ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, adolescence, family bonds, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
california, budapest, europe, usa, austria ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
wedding, chase, young heroes, survival, on the run, family relations, family life, on the road, reluctant hero, winter, boy, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, iraq, turkey, germany, greece ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older ...
Style:
art house, costume drama, black and white, postmodern, serious ...
Plot:
crazy love, literary, marriage of convenience, young wife, duel, age difference, adultery, countryside, german history, women, summer, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, year 1974, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
berlin germany, northern germany, germany, europe, prussia
Similarity:
26%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Victor, a father, travels the roads with his teenage son, Felix. For Felix, the trip is a school of life, as his first romantic encounter helps him better understand his father and get closer to him.
Style:
road movie, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, on the road, parent child relationship, parents and children, hopes, love and romance, single parent, son, father son relationship, teenager, single father, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
25%
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 gang, bike, drug addiction, addiction, skinny dipping, road trip, alcohol abuse, clinic, drug abuse, on the road, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naomi, a seventeen year-old city brat from Nagoya, finds her world turned upside down after the breakup of her parents' marriage. Packed off to the country, she reluctantly works at her aunt's inn until being asked to care for Mrs. Koide, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, elderly, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, human nature, youth, aging, bittersweet, hotel, dementia, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon ...
Style:
art house, black comedy, controversial, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot:
communist, anarchist, media, family relations, old woman, suicide, death of father, widow, working class, media manipulation, politics, hostage situation ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany, europe, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
independent film, art house, philosophical, slow cinema, contemplative ...
Plot:
suicide, desert, soldier, existentialism, death, abrupt ending, muslim, dialogue, iranian, depression, hopelessness, conversation ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, asia ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, hitchhiking, journey, teenage life, leaving home, fall in love, rebelliousness, youth, travel, girl, camping, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
Style:
road movie, independent film, witty, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, road trip, travel, summer, fugitive, partner, love and romance, friends, friendship, on the run, chases and races, heist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
terrorist, years of lead, feminist, terrorism, marxist, raf, politics, sister sister relationship, german politics, prison escape, woman peeing, prison ...
Time:
70s, year 1981
Place:
germany, west germany, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come ...
Style:
road movie, manga, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
on the road, female nudity, prostitution, circus, male nudity, bare breasts, amazon jungle, surrealism, transformation, nude girl, friendship, couples ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
train, self discovery, couple relations, society, couples, social differences, on the road, railway, multiple storylines, soccer, football, migration ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
italy, scotland, europe
Similarity:
23%
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