Movies like Paris, Texas
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Paris, Texas (1984)
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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, atmospheric, emotional, bleak, philosophical, thought provoking, art house, lyrical ...
Plot:
desert, father son relationship, on the road, amnesia, road trip, relationships, loneliness, isolation, parenthood, melancholy, solitude, sibling relationship, reconciliation, family reunited, parents and children, estrangement, motel, family relations, hopes, art, beautiful scenery, dysfunctional family, existentialism, drifter, redemption ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, paris france, germany, tokyo, austin texas, usa ...
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Most similar movies to Paris, Texas
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, melancholic, cerebral and reflective films with plots about loneliness, existentialism, storytelling, melancholy, culture clash, runaway and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Paris, Texas: The Straight Story (1999), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Nebraska (2013), The Return (2003), Fanny and Alexander (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
road trip, disney, old age, on the road, small town, brother brother relationship, family feud, illness, reconciliation, travel, nature, highway ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, mississippi, usa, wisconsin
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100%
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:
character study, road trip, dysfunctional family, musician, alienation, working class, self discovery, drifter, pianist, on the road, bowling, music ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, texas, washington state, northern california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, depressing, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
aging, small town, road trip, dysfunctional family, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity, elderly, delusion, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, montana, california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, emotional, art house, thought provoking, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
russian, coming of age, brother, survival, journey, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, death, childhood, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, disturbing, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
childhood, ghost, christmas, children, emotional abuse, brother sister relationship, grief, coming of age, abusive stepfather, child abuse, domestic violence, christmas eve ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1910s
Place:
sweden, tokyo, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Movies like Rain Man
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style:
road movie, sad, depressing, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, wedding, on the road, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, parenthood, philosophy, workplace, changing lives, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, colorado, california, kansas, denver colorado
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100%
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 ...
Style:
road movie, meditative, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, car, road trip, cult, character study, on the road, life philosophy, mechanic, hitchhiker, existentialism, bet, obsessive quest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico, tokyo
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, mentally challenged, runaway, disability, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, family relations, mental illness, self discovery, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, las vegas, texas, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, road movie, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, cowboy, father son relationship, self discovery, hopes, haunted by the past, parents and children, family relations, human nature, actor's life, small town, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas, california, spain, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, cerebral ...
Plot:
allergy, psychiatrist, psychology, isolation, environmental, environment, paranoia, mental disorder, suburbs, contamination, housewife, retreat ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Films like Magnolia
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style:
psychological, art house, philosophical, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, insanity, mental illness, religion, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, island, writers, loneliness, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
maid, terminal illness, art, family relations, women, existentialism, death, marriage, obsession, cancer, nude, bittersweet ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style:
sincere, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot:
unemployment, loneliness, isolation, complex characters, art, family relations, culture clash, love and romance, introspection, existentialism, human nature, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style:
thought provoking, road movie, art house, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
death, terminal illness, coming of age, art, writers, immigrants, destiny, greek, hospital, catastrophe, brutality, artist ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
greece, tokyo, australia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, couples, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, family problems, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vietnam, tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
art house, road movie, psychological, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide, existentialism, death, car, muslim, desert, depression, art, brutality, life, life & death, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, tokyo, tehran iran, middle east, tehran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, talky, lyrical, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, road trip, map, hopes, buddies, partners, on the road, human nature, couple relations, self discovery, liberal, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, new jersey, tokyo, los angeles, london ...
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37%
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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:
friendship, drifter, road trip, buddies, prison, on the road, attempted rape, character study, self discovery, violence, introspection, car wash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, texas, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, california ...
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37%
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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, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, loneliness, depression, small town, friendship, isolation, solitude, life philosophy, character study, dysfunctional family, owner dog relationship, travel ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, alaska, california, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, stylized, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
airport, on the road, stranger, journalist, single mother, road trip, child abandonment, strong female character, travel, swimming, children, loneliness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, amsterdam, new york, japan, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies like A River Runs Through It
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, melancholic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
small town, countryside, kurd, fish out of water, childhood, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, village life, politics, existentialism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, kurdistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style:
bleak, psychological, enigmatic, lyrical, sincere ...
Plot:
road trip, bus driver, haunted by the past, survival, family relations, serial killer, orphan, starting over, hijacking, bus, redemption, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
atmospheric, reflective, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, existentialism, dream, obsession, insanity, memory, writer's life, redemption, culture clash, poetry, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, family relations, taxi driver, loneliness, depression, injustice, family problems, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, new jersey, europe, florida ...
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37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
reflective, cerebral, art house, erotic, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, love, relationships, marriage, family relations, crumbling marriage, alienation, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, crazy love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, milan italy, tokyo, mediterranean sea, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Movies like Boyhood
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the massive city of Tokyo, Kumiko, a twenty-nine year old, lives in utter solitude. She works a dreadful, dead-end job under an awful boss, is intimidated by her well-off peers, and nagged incessantly by her overbearing mother who is exasperated ...
Style:
depressing, surreal, melancholic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
language barrier, treasure, rabbit, mental illness, character study, survival, self discovery, obsession, alone in the world, female protagonist, map, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, minnesota, tokyo, north dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, sad, meditative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, marriage crisis, family problems, overcoming, hopes, redemption, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot:
surrealism, magic realism, wilderness, cult, brainwashing, violence, catastrophe, art, artist, brutality, deadpan, death ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
germany, tokyo
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style:
art house, depressing, philosophical, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcohol abuse, character study, solitude, loneliness, dysfunctional family, mental illness, rehabilitation ...
Time:
60s, 1920s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, road movie, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, teacher, age difference, road trip, children, poverty, letter, youth, melancholy, train, self discovery ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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