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Gerry (2002)
21K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
Style:
surreal, art house, enigmatic, melancholic, disturbing, captivating, visual, independent film, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
desert, wilderness, hiking, death, wandering, isolation, nature, survival, best friend, mountain, two friends, car, walking, very little dialogue, danger, forces of nature, human nature, starvation, beautiful scenery, serial killer, wilderness survival, nihilism, lost, minimal dialogue, landscape ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, tokyo, argentina
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Most similar movies to Gerry
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, visually appealing and harsh films with plots about mentor, death, storytelling, wilderness, dialogue, catastrophe and nature mostly in Drama, Adventure and Mystery genres. Some movies like Gerry: Morvern Callar (2002), Old Joy (2006), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Wrecked (2010), The Donner Party (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial.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%
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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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to ...
Style:
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preschool
Plot:
memory, amnesia, alone, hallucination, isolation, murder, man with no name, forest, danger, introspection, haunted by the past, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
8K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
Style:
epic, suspense, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, mountain, survival, mountaineer, climbing, mountaineering, snow, alpinism, nature, winter, avalanche, rescue ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
himalaya, usa, middle east, seattle, pakistan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, island, desert island, bullying, innocence lost, survival, children, stranded on an island, literary, coming of age, skinny dipping, isolation ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, future, near future
Place:
fictional island, britain, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
108K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
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:
atmospheric, bleak, gloomy, tense, offbeat ...
Plot:
journey, gunfight, transformation, wilderness, indians, cowboy, murder, on the road, accountant, modern west, culture clash, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1995, 1870s, 90s, victorian era
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, pacific ocean, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, male nudity, native american, revenge, escape, wilderness, temptation, native, legend, jealousy, love triangle, tragic love ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, middle ages, 18th century
Place:
canada, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, sad, surreal, harsh ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
poverty, climate change, children, global warming, magic realism, father daughter relationship, childhood, coming of age, flood, single father, crab, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style:
surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
foreign legion, gay, desert, obsession, military, military training, gay interest, discipline, french foreign legion, soldier, homoeroticism, existential loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
africa, france, south africa, marseille, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
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Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, woods, nature, camping, bear, lost in the woods, dangerous animal, danger, bear attack, forest, lost ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
67%
29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, scenic, philosophical, anthropological, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, mountain, scientist, arctic, camping, snow, voice over narration, skinny dipping, environment, dog ...
Time:
year 1983, 1940s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
alaska, usa, canada
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
wilderness, friendship, survival, travel, canyon, nature, unfulfillment, group of friends, ancient mystery, search and rescue, tourist, vacation ...
Similarity:
39%
146K
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, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, starting over, female protagonist, death of mother, tourism, human spirit, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1995, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, portland oregon, oregon, usa, mojave desert ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of ...
Style:
emotional, surreal, depressing, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
skateboarder, coming of age, childhood, teenager, skateboard, cheerleader, depression, paranoia, violent, high school, death, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Follows the history of two robots, the members of Daft Punk, on their quest to become human.
Style:
surreal, serious, atmospheric, stylized, experimental ...
Plot:
androids and robots, desert, laboratory, artificial intelligence, on the road, fugitives, danger, life is a bitch, escapades, imaginary, social misfits, dystopian future ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, wilderness survival, pets, blizzard, treasure hunter, starvation, disorder, chases and races, confined, escapades ...
Time:
70s
Place:
yukon, alaska, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, Poland, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, prison escape, escape, journey, war, pow, freedom, gulag, world war two, explorer, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
himalaya, russia, tibet, mongolia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
36%
25K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
Style:
psychedelic, art house, bleak, lyrical, intense ...
Plot:
musician, music, rock, rock music, depression, isolation, addiction, drug abuse, biopic, rock and roll, suicide, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
36%
684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
36%
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Style:
emotional, cult classic, melancholic, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, high school, bus, poem, bicycle, life philosophy, redemption, character study, investigation, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Style:
homoerotic, sexy, suspense, avant garde, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, bondage, lgbt, forest, naked man, ornithologist, public nudity, lgbtq, naked in public, bare chested male, male nudity, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style:
anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, survival, youth, 10 year old, bare chested male, boy, nature, homeless, homeless man, tragedy, wilderness, orphan ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, airplane accident, aviation, disaster, crash landing, sahara desert, thirst, isolation, pilot ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, libya, africa, middle east
Similarity:
36%
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