Movies like Fools' Parade

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Fools' Parade (1971)
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Fools' Parade (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Homer Grindstaff is a big named banker in Glory and Doc Council is a prison official and they team up to plot to kill Appleyard and his ex-convict friends who were attempting to open up a general store in Stone Coal, West Virginia and then to take the money.
Style: period piece, serious, realistic, period drama, cult film
Plot: mountain, aging, chases and races, store, danger, starting over, small town, partner, against the odds, small town life, going straight, hopes, unlikely partners, sniper, prostitute, train, depression, religion, brothel, pimp, jail, ex convict, suicide bomber, locked in, pet dog ...
Time: 1930s, year 1971, year 1935, 30s
Place: west virginia, virginia
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about danger, chases and races, small town, murder, hopes, small town life and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fools' Parade: Coastlines (2002), All Mistakes Buried (2015), Living in Peril (1997), Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981), The Job (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Coastlines (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: infidelity, going straight, vengeance, starting over, couples, family problems, human nature, dishonesty, rehabilitation, love and romance, friendship, love affair ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
All Mistakes Buried (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: redemption, addiction, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, small town, drug, mob
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Living in Peril (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, danger, mind game, obsession, stalking, dangerous attraction, rivalry, mentally unstable, psychopath, architect, starting over, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, tense, rough ...
Plot: iron curtain, escape, cold war, communism, stasi, berlin wall, tunnel, new love, love letter, political unrest, against the odds, daring rescue ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Job (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A guy looking to find employment and marry the love of his life, gets in over his head when a fast-talking temp agent lands him a job.
Style: suspense, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: unemployment, gangster, moral dilemma, hopes, conspiracy, couples, going straight, employer employee relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, cons and scams, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, teenage life, on the run, obsession, family problems, investigation, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Bandolero! (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, ...
Style: retro, funny, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, mexican bandit, civil war, woman with a gun, wild west, cowboy, bandit, brother, outlaw, executioner, desert, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, texas, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Blackhats (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "blackhats" is about a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter, whom, finds his new harmonious life as a Fugitive Recovery Agent threatened, when he must track down a group of cyber hackers before they are assassinated by a rival bounty ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, rivalry, going straight, assassination attempt, chase, danger, starting over, chases and races, uninhibited rivalry, hacker, bail bondsman, agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Joyride (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three excitement-craving friends get more than they bargained for when they steal a hit woman's automobile.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: female assassin, small town, dogme 95, friendship, prostitute, motel, assassin, revenge, blackmail, joyride, disorder, kids in trouble ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
End of the Line (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Style: political, independent film, witty, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: train, railway, profanity, bittersweet, hopes, human spirit, buddies, on the road, rebellion, small town life, self discovery, politics ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Doc West - Part 1 (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker game gone bad Doc West finds himself in the local town jail. When his past is exposed and a battle ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, spaghetti western, disturbing ...
Plot: gambling, danger, partner, chase, gang, criminal heroes, heroes, vengeance, mind game, prison, legends and myths, old west ...
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Betrayal (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tension
Plot: betrayal, murderous pair, con artists, friendship, woman in danger, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, companion, victim, scam, breaking and entering ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Saving Grace B. Jones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.
Style: emotional, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: couples, family in danger, redemption, homecoming, domestic disturbance, family relations, life turned upside down, family in crisis, estrangement, mentally unstable, hopes, disorder ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Absolute Killers (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: witness protection, on the run, chases and races, danger, gangster, murder, redemption, violence, woman in danger, violent content, u.s. marshal, district attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Toughest Man in the World (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: competition, high school life, gymnasium, bouncer, gangster, power relations, urban ghetto, aging, society, fighting the system, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, mental illness, autism, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The World Made Straight (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot: civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, family relations, hopes, youth, coming of age, massacre ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country Remedy (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: clinic, starting over, family relations, doctors and patients, friendship, lifestyle, family life, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Mr. Kaplan (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: aging, investigation, amateur detective, partner, rivalry, old age, judaism, holocaust, voice over narration, cigarette smoking, jail, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, germany, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: haunted by the past, aging, sexual tension, brothel, secret, obsession, uncover truth, older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, age difference, erotica, fetish ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Show of Force (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, media, legal, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, price of justice, working undercover ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Domino Killings (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, vietnam war, prison, terrorism, paranoia, vietnam veteran, prison escape, murder, conspiracy theory, paranoid, communism, assassination ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, europe, spain, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Wrong Is Right (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean ...
Style: political, black comedy, fast, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, reporter, media manipulation, political satire, 007, world war, news, conspiracy, time travel, satire, terrorism, assassination ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, near future
Place: san antonio texas, new york, north africa, manhattan new york city, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Blood of My Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, starting over, estrangement, parents and children, hopes, on the road, criminal heroes, mexican immigrant, boy, coming of age, border, immigrant ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.7
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Toxic (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, violence spree, criminal's revenge, vengeance, sexual content, murder, strip club, prostitute, nightclub, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Salvation Boulevard (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
Style: cynical, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny ...
Plot: pastor, religion, atheist, false accusation, life turned upside down, on the run, frame up, dark humor, danger, society, investigation, farce ...
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Hunter (1980)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: chase, car chase, hostage, pregnancy, bounty hunter, stalking, dog, childbirth, tough guy, psychopath, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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PVC-1 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, rough, tense ...
Plot: profanity, terrorism, against the odds, race against time, rescue, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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