Movies like Five Easy Pieces
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
44K
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, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, cynical, cerebral, cult classic, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, diner, oil field, musician, self discovery, working class, bowling, pregnancy, dating, infidelity, rough sex, music, complex characters, existentialism, family problems, identity crisis ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california, los angeles, southern california ...
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Most similar movies to Five Easy Pieces
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and talky films with plots about loneliness, storytelling, dialogue, character study, existentialism, relationships and life philosophy mostly in Drama, Adventure and Biography genres. Some movies like Five Easy Pieces: Scarecrow (1973), Paris, Texas (1984), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Nebraska (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
22K
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:
friendship, drifter, road trip, buddies, attempted rape, on the road, prison, mental breakdown, car wash, telephone call, hitchhiking, character study ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, denver colorado, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, detroit ...
Similarity:
100%
139K
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
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, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
Similarity:
100%
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, on the road, mechanic, hitchhiker, auto racing, road trip, existentialism, desert, rivalry, drag racing, driving, wager ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico, north america, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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128K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, meditative ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, aging, elderly, confronting the past, on the road, relationships, old age, obsessive quest, character study, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, nebraska, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, psychological, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
sexual content, infidelity, psychiatry, skinny dipping, intern, relationships, culture clash, music business, lesbian, music, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style:
erotic, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot:
self discovery, christmas, writers, desert, friendship, supermarket, life philosophy, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s
Place:
scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, independent film, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, psychiatry, housewife, nudity, unhappy wife, brain damage, pregnant wife, bare breasts, missing wife, depressed woman, swing, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
nebraska
Similarity:
100%
123K
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, independent film, cult classic, avant garde ...
Plot:
road trip, hippie, on the road, existentialism, motorcycle, marijuana, rebelliousness, friendship, biker, self discovery, rock music, stoner ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
california, new mexico, alabama, arizona, louisiana ...
Similarity:
60%
692K
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:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
Similarity:
100%
216K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, motor home, on the road, loss of job, road trip, nomad, journey, desert, homelessness, skinny dipping, healing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a ...
Style:
sad, philosophical, thought provoking, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
funeral, self discovery, father son relationship, pregnant wife, life philosophy, workplace, small town, character study, new job, small town life, classical music, musician ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style:
serious, cerebral, epic, visually stunning, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oil, character study, greed, money, capitalism, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, father son relationship, abusive father, impostor, mission ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, turn of the century, middle ages, 19th century ...
Place:
california, texas, pacific ocean, los angeles, america ...
Similarity:
50%
580K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, inspirational, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, disability, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, runaway, self discovery, mathematics, psychiatry, life changing ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
Similarity:
24%
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, erotic, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, crazy love, rebellion, sex orgy, male nudity, outdoor sex, politics, pink floyd, materialism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, phoenix arizona, italy ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his ...
Style:
cult classic, sexual, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
monopoly, depression, storytelling, hotel, drinking, radio, death, radio station, daydreamer, jail, woman with a gun, mental disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
philadelphia, hawaii, new jersey, usa, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
24%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery ...
Style:
touching, intense, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
homeless, alcohol abuse, redemption, halloween, mental disorder, female nudity, alcoholic, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 1900s, year 1987, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested ...
Style:
sad, emotional, road movie, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, depression, loneliness, owner dog relationship, small town, friendship, hopes, poverty, money problems, life philosophy, solitude, on the road ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, alaska, portland oregon, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Contemporary story of a couple whose marriage has gone astray, partly due to the infidelity of both partners and also the fact that their eldest son was killed in a car accident 8 years before.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family problems, introspection, human nature, dysfunctional family, elderly, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, hopes, on the road, married couple, comedian ...
Place:
connecticut, minneapolis minnesota, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
23%
348K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
22%
10K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style:
road movie, lyrical, talky, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, friendship, map, partner, buddies, hopes, human nature, couple relations, self discovery, liberal, couples ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, london, portland oregon, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style:
depressing, cerebral, realistic, sexual, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, thanksgiving, coming of age, snow, extramarital affair, mate swapping, adultery, sexual awakening, swinger, infidelity, parenthood, virgin ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, year 1997, year 1973
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Style:
independent film, sexy, black comedy, controversial, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, voyeurism, infidelity, husband wife relationship, therapist, dysfunctional marriage, sister sister relationship, adultery, voyeur, sibling rivalry, impotence, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
louisiana, usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
independent film, intense, art house, black and white, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex, divorce, prostitute, feminism, feminist, drinking, male nudity, depression, marriage, extramarital affair, cheating ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, UK, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style:
disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, sex, love story, love, marriage, crazy love, obsession, depression, tragic love, sex with a stranger, melancholy, self sacrifice ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
22%
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