Movies like Lakeboat

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Lakeboat (2000)
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Lakeboat (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.
Style: surreal, melancholic, satirical, stylized, humorous, realistic, clever, talky, witty, semi serious ...
Plot: working class, graduate student, adaptation, ship, college, machismo, coming of age, sailor, student, father son relationship, male female relationship, trust, husband wife relationship, sailing, storytelling, drinking, ocean, prostitute, sexist, lake, youth, river, sexual harassment, love, sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, boston, tennessee, england, california, tokyo
Keyword: reading, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and crying films with plots about drink, drinking, father son relationship, male female relationship, friendship, cigarette smoking and sex mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Lakeboat: American Buffalo (1996), Jack (2004), The Men's Club (1986), Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993), Imaginary Heroes (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Buffalo (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
Style: talky, bleak, stylized, independent film, minimal cast ...
Plot: betrayal, heist, robbery, revenge, tantrum, coin, antique dealer, loyalty, trust, rainstorm, diner, vulgar ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
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95%
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Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 ⇓
75%
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Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style: dark comedy, emotional, stylized, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, suicide, gay, family secret, loneliness, parenthood, family drama, family problems, society, youth, loss of son ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Substance of Fire (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style: melancholic, talky, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: family bonds, writer's life, single father, writers, book, family problems, love and romance, introspection, dealing with death, family life, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Faces (1968)
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: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
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64%
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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 ⇓
61%
Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two women confront their boyfriend, a two-timing actor who professed eternal love to each.
Style: talky, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: betrayal, womanizer, manipulation, love triangle, sex, love and romance, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, erotica, infidelity, dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Pressure Point (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style: political, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, psychopath, prison, african, colonialism, nazi, therapy, black, blaxploitation, mental disorder, legion, foreign legion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1942
Place: madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.9
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Body Shots (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning ...
Style: sexy, suspense, melancholic, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, nightclub, erotica, oral sex, rough sex, friendship, bodyguard, rape, life philosophy, dysfunctional family, happy ending, lone hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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American Gun (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single mother, human nature, single parent, dealing with death, working class, parents and children, death in the family, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, virginia, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
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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 ⇓
52%
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style: psychological, emotional, talky, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: adultery, imaginary friend, dysfunctional family, character study, human nature, couple relations, jealous spouse, dishonesty, lifestyle, family problems, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, prague, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Desolation Angels (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Returning home from a trip to visit his mother, Nick discovers that a good friend of his, Sid, has apparently raped his girlfriend, Mary. More concerned with his own wounded pride than with Mary's lingering feelings of guilt, pain and betrayal, ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: betrayal, urban, sexual abuse, infidelity, couples, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, couple relations, family relations, breakup, improv ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston
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48%
Sexual Dependency (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot: sexual abuse, sexual relations, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, human nature, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, teenage life, male nudity, gay, self discovery ...
Place: south america, bolivia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Chelsea Walls (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Style: meditative, intense, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot: hotel, eccentricity, lifestyle, writer's life, looking for love, addiction, drug abuse, rising to stardom, couple relations, nightlife, down on your luck, artist ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, minnesota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. The young boy's seemingly simple goal develops ...
Style: disturbing, touching, psychological, captivating, southern gothic
Plot: child abuse, bullying, american football, mother son relationship, boy, mental illness, husband wife relationship, small town, drunkenness, teasing, father son relationship, bad father ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Crashing (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of ...
Style: sexy, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, love triangle, writer's block, love and romance, couples, infidelity, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, young romance, college, sexual tension, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.9
 4K
Echo Park LA (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.1
 91K
Half Nelson (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
Style: depressing, independent film, talky, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, drug addiction, drug, student, addiction, drug abuse, friendship, ghetto, loneliness, school, existentialism ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Water Engine (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil ...
Plot: law, world's fair, oil industry, oil company, water, invention, patent, motor, fuel
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Browning Version (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
Style: talky, touching, colorful, anamorphic, grim ...
Plot: teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, education, male nudity, drinking, science, marriage, bookstore, professor, academician ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.7
 1K
Claire Dolan (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
Style: independent film, erotic, cult classic, crying, serious ...
Plot: pimp, mother daughter relationship, rough sex, prostitute, brain tumor, sex, immigrant, interracial sex, making love, prostitution, sex scene, big city ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, dublin ireland, usa, new jersey, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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