Movies like One Week

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One Week (2008)
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One Week (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Style: road movie, realistic, philosophical, bad ending, emotional, meditative, serious, sexy, feel good, children's story ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: motorcycle, road trip, travel, self discovery, terminal illness, cancer, on the road, depression, solitude, beautiful scenery, coming of age, love story, wanderlust, survival, fighting illness, biker, treatment, dealing with death, twentysomething life, health situation, underdog, bike, high school, nature, giant ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, pacific ocean, british columbia, toronto ontario canada, ontario canada
Keyword: canadian, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, road movie, serious and touching films with plots about self discovery, travel, road trip, on the road, journey, nature and survival mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like One Week: Into the Wild (2007), Lost in the Barrens (1990), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), The Bucket List (2007), The Art of Travel (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Into the Wild (2007)
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: road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place: alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
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100%
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, existentialism, introspection, happiness, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, loneliness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear attack, nature, winter, treasure hunt, snow, treasure hunter, stranded, trapped, scenery, friendship between boys ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style: road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot: self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Bucket List (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, philosophical, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, road trip, elderly, terminal illness, unlikely friendships, journey, human spirit, philosophy, bucket list, dying, follow your dream, self discovery ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, africa, cote d'azur, tanzania, mount everest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Art of Travel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: travel, self discovery, adventurer, escapades, canceled wedding, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, disaster, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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On the Road (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style: road movie, sexy, independent film, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, writers, on the road, beat generation, infidelity, friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, youth, hitchhiker, watching sex ...
Time: 1940s, year 1951, 1950s, 50s, year 2012 ...
Place: nebraska, california, arizona, usa, louisiana ...
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100%
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Life of Pi (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style: philosophical, motivational, visually appealing, scenic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: survival, ocean, animal, human animal relationship, life & death, stranded, survivor, beautiful scenery, lost at sea, hopes, storm at sea, journey ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 70s
Place: india, pacific ocean, america, montreal, toronto ontario canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Lean on Pete (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.
Style: road movie, sad, exciting, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: horse, coming of age, racehorse, teenager, teenage boy, single father, runaway, father son relationship, on the road, horse trainer, doctor, orphan ...
Time: year 2017, 90s
Place: portland oregon
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100%
 7.2
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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 ...
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37%
How Much Further (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet ...
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, scenic, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, countryside, journey, self discovery, strike, hopes, travel, hitchhiking, student, journalist, survival, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ecuador, andes mountains
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36%
Easy Rider: The Ride Back (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this revisionist drama, the film delves into the family lineage of Wyatt Williams, the character made famous by Peter Fonda in the original Easy Rider Movie. Centering around the Williams family, and their internal family struggles throughout the ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, father son relationship, world war two veteran, patriotism, dysfunctional family, road trip, family relations, family problems, estrangement, buddies, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, california, arizona, ohio
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36%
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
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36%
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style: road movie, scenic, visually appealing, surreal, erotic ...
Plot: desert, sahara desert, travel, infidelity, on the road, traveler, husband wife relationship, existentialism, beautiful scenery, sex scene, heat wave, art history ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
Place: africa, morocco, north africa, new york
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36%
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Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place: australia
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35%
American Dresser (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a recent widower consumed with regret seeks absolution in riding his motorcycle cross-country to confront the mistakes of his past, he unexpectedly discovers that life is about moving forward, one mile at a time.
Style: melancholic, captivating, thought provoking, road movie, sentimental ...
Plot: motorcycle, motorcyclist, meaning of life, biker, travel, loss of wife, cross country, widower, lifestyle, introspection, bereavement, road trip ...
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34%
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Up & Away (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This is a story about two homeless brothers (Zana, 7) and (Dana, 10) who live on the edge of survival. In the beginning of the story they catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema. Zana and Dana decide that they want ...
Style: road movie, realistic, sincere, serious, independent film ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, kurd, homeless, survival, coming of age, hopes, siblings relations, family relations, life is a bitch, dictatorship, follow your dream, child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: kurdistan, middle east, iraq
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34%
Everybody's Fine (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect ...
Style: sentimental, touching, road movie, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, family relations, holiday, family reunited, loss of spouse, loneliness, father son relationship, retired, dysfunctional family, widower, family drama, bus trip ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Island Etude (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: First-time actor Tung Ming-Hsiang plays Ming, a young college student whose lifelong hearing problem causes him to communicate via slurred speech. Carrying a guitar on his back and lacking few concrete reasons, he decides to bike around the island ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, rough, exciting ...
Plot: cycling, bicycle, friendship, starting over, love and romance, self discovery, homecoming, misfit, mute or deaf, ambition, elderly lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, europe, canada
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Leave No Trace (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style: psychological, sincere, serious, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, teenage girl, trust, wilderness, survivalist, hitchhiking, isolation, survival, hiking ...
Time: 2010s, future, near future, 90s
Place: oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, colorado ...
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34%
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Interstate 60 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: road trip, self discovery, on the road, alternate reality, life philosophy, dream girl, choice, self fulfillment, wish come true, surrealism, twists and turns, highway ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
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34%
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Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
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, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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34%
The Snow Walker (2003)
Genre: 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, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place: canada, antarctic, persia
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34%
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Blue Skies, Green Waters, Red Earth (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to ...
Style: road movie, scenic, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot: road trip, motorcycle, college, friendship, girlfriend, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, self discovery, travel, desert, storytelling, biker ...
Place: himalaya
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34%
 7.3
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The Way (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: travel, road trip, journey, traveler, pilgrimage, death of son, self discovery, redemption, on the road, grief, wanderlust, father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, france, iberian peninsula, europe
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34%
 5.8
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Bass Ackwards (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: self discovery, on the road, human nature, obsessive quest, hopes, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, road trip, travel, friendship, married woman, cross country ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, seattle, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
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: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, anthropological ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: wilderness, nature, wolf, snow, scientist, survival, mountain, arctic, camping, environment, environmental, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1983, 1940s, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
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34%
My Own Love Song (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
Style: road movie, realistic, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, on the road, friendship, friends, road trip, self discovery, couples, art, hurricane katrina, best friend, misfit, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: memphis, new orleans, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
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One Mile Above (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
Plot: mountain, cycling, last wish, direction and purpose, on the road, self discovery, dead brother, danger, escapades, wilderness, mountaineer, mountaineering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 633
Patagonia (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style: road movie, touching, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot: desert, couples, last wish, self discovery, on the road, elderly, love affair, crumbling marriage, redemption, family problems, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, wales, latin america, europe, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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