Movies like Two-Lane Blacktop

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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
 7.2
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
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 unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
Style: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, serious, realistic, cult classic, existential, independent film ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, road trip, on the road, racing, mechanic, classic car, character study, carsploitation, life philosophy, auto mechanic, hitchhiker, desert, existentialism, bet, driving, contests and competitions, obsessive quest, destructive relationship, auto racing, great ending, hippie, counterculture, car race, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico, tokyo
Keyword: challenge, american, gangsters, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and road movie films with plots about on the road, female nudity, friendship, death, road trip, sex and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Action and Sport genres. Some movies like Two-Lane Blacktop: Easy Rider (1969), Zabriskie Point (1970), The Brown Bunny (2003), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Scarecrow (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Easy Rider (1969)
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 ...
Plot: road trip, hippie, on the road, motorcycle, friendship, biker, marijuana, existentialism, freedom, rock music, rebelliousness, hallucination ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, california, los angeles, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zabriskie Point (1970)
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 ⇓
100%
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, sex, sex scene, real sex, unsimulated sex, prostitute, controversy, explicit sex, redemption, rape, drug addict, oral sex ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
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 ⇓
100%
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 7.2
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Scarecrow (1973)
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 ⇓
100%
Twentynine Palms (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of ...
Style: disturbing, road movie, psychological, sexy, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: desert, road trip, on the road, public nudity, violence, murder, explicit sex, male nudity, nude, female pubic hair, woman urinating, sex scene ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 3K
Cockfighter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Warren Oates plays a world-weary gambler trying to make big money cockfighting. Always on the road, he works inside and outside the rules to try to work up to the biggest fight of the year.
Style: cynical, neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gambling, female nudity, animal abuse, exploitation, deep south, hicksploitation, redneck, small town, comeback, friendship, chicken, redemption ...
Time: year 1974, 70s
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Vanishing Point (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, car, on the road, hitchhiker, hippie, driver, desert, road trip, chase, radio station, on the run, truck ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: san francisco, utah, california, colorado, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
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Morvern Callar (2002)
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: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 7K
Jesus' Son (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style: independent film, cult classic, grim, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: addiction, drug, drug addiction, drug abuse, dialogue, existentialism, recovery, dark humor, heroin, redemption, apocalypse, drug addict ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 3K
Urbania (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, psychological, talky, sexy ...
Plot: gay, urban legend, gender, murder, character study, depression, lgbt, gangster, mentor, twists and turns, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 20K
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
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: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, depression, owner dog relationship, small town, friendship, solitude, life philosophy, on the road, character study, dysfunctional family, travel, social problems ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: oregon, alaska, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, college, male nudity, skinny dipping, drinking, protest, anti war, male pubic hair, group of friends, memories, buddies ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place: new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
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 ⇓
50%
Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, road trip, highway, salesman, self discovery, desert, friendship, deaf man ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Paris, Texas (1984)
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 ⇓
100%
The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: small town, family problems, brother brother relationship, pregnancy, vietnam war, welder, brothers, melancholy, murder, childhood, violence, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, america, ohio, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, talky ...
Plot: depression, dancing, great depression, social commentary, competition, contest, survival, mental breakdown, cynicism, exhaustion, culture clash, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1969, 1920s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, chicago, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Swimmer (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, swimming pool, swimming, swimmer, surrealism, nudist, neighbor, existentialism, life philosophy, character study, social relations, neighborhood ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Style: road movie, disturbing, black comedy, cult classic, neo western ...
Plot: gunfight, death, on the road, gangster, one man army, grave, anti hero, shootout, prostitute, murder, prostitution, organized crime ...
Time: year 1974, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
 6.8
 9K
Old Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, lyrical, talky, realistic ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, map, partner, buddies, hopes, couple relations, human nature, self discovery, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, los angeles, europe, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
Return to Macon County (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: on the road, drag racing, classic car, car, auto racing, manhunt, redneck, waitress, car chase, friendship, chase, car accident ...
Time: year 1975, 1950s, 50s
Place: california, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Last American Hero (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A backwoods bootlegger decides to put the driving skills he developed evading the law to good use. He becomes a race car driver, and eventually, one of the fastest drivers in history.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, sincere, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car race, racing, fast car, race car, redneck, auto racing, car, motor racing, hotshot hero, athlete's life, rise to the top, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 12K
Le Mans (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Steve McQueen is ideally cast as a champion race car driver, participating in the famed 24-hour race headquartered in Le Mans, France. Though dedicated to Going for the Gold, McQueen finds time to romance widowed Elga Andersen. The dramatic angle to ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racing, car racing, race, car, car chase, race car, racecar driver, auto racing, driving, speed, rain, car accident ...
Time: year 1971, year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, maine, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 143
Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Days of Thunder (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. ...
Style: exciting, inspirational, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: racing, car race, car chase, rivalry, car, hotshot hero, auto racing, motor sport, chase, nascar, athlete's life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, alabama, phoenix arizona, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 181K
Nomadland (2020)
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, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
 137
Pickup on 101 (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: homeless, train, motel, police, hitchhiker, hobo, singer, diner, friendship, jail, hitchhiking, gas station ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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