Movies like The Easy Life

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The Easy Life (1962)
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The Easy Life (1962)
Original name: Il sorpasso
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer.
Style: road movie, neorealism, dark comedy, philosophical, thought provoking, black and white, cerebral, psychological, clever, touching ...
Plot: on the road, summer, hedonism, seaside, friendship, beach, travel, time travel, lgbt, journey, trippy, road trip, underdog, amor, odd couple, unrequited love, friends, nightlife, satire, introspection, lifestyle, human nature, teaching the ways of the world, dancing, student ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 1960s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe

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Most similar movies to The Easy Life

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and road movie films with plots about friendship, on the road, friends, road trip, family relations, self discovery and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Easy Life: Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976), Scent of a Woman (1974), The Terrace (1980), The Trip to Italy (2014), Macaroni (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, dark, realistic ...
Plot: sexual promiscuity, family relations, poverty, greed, insanity, satire, social problems, incest, social injustice, lgbt, old age, badass ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Scent of a Woman (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: blind man, blindness, blind character, bitterness, road trip, disability, soldier, female nudity, suicide, twins, woman with a gun, circus ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Terrace (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the ...
Style: satirical, captivating, non-linear, contemplative, cynical ...
Plot: television, food, restaurant, politics, screenwriter, communist, husband wife relationship, member of parliament, state affairs, unfulfillment, society, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable ...
Style: sad, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, resistance, midlife crisis, fascism, italian neorealism, partisan, corruption, european, amor, circus, friendship, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1974, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Trip to Italy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, talky, witty ...
Plot: character study, restaurant, on the road, food, friendship, odd couple, buddies, verbal byplay, wine, art, dialogue, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, tuscany, europe, pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.4
 850
Macaroni (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unrequited love, friendship, culture clash, on the road, mistaken identity, buddies, dishonesty, love and romance, society, family relations, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Mid-August Lunch (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental ...
Style: semi serious, talky, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: elderly, food, aging, family relations, disorder, nothing goes right, human nature, parents and children, summer, cooking, dinner, restaurant ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, mediterranean sea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Intimate Stories (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Style: road movie, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, self discovery, friendship, friends, rise to the top, redemption, hopes, human nature, family relations, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Tour de Force (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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North (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, self discovery, introspection, estrangement, wilderness, ex athlete, winter, friendship, mountain, antisocial personality disorder, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Voir la Mer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, on the road, introspection, escapades, friendship, friends, sexual relations, lifestyle, road trip, two brothers, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 832
The Libertine (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, sexy, sexual
Plot: sexual awakening, bare breasts, widow, erotica, fetish, sleaze, female whipping, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, misogynist, promiscuity ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Don't Think About It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: bankruptcy, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, homecoming, family life, family business, unfulfillment, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Road North (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest — about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father — is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, road movie, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, father son relationship, family relations, absent father, estrangement, parents and children, road trip, dysfunctional family, getting home, legacy, nature, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Tickets (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, anthology ...
Plot: train, self discovery, couple relations, on the road, society, couples, social differences, railway, soccer, migration, multiple storylines, football ...
Time: 90s, year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: youth, friendship, fish out of water, social differences, teenage life, lifestyle, society, politics, human nature, hopes, city life, school ...
Time: 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Trip (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and ...
Style: road movie, humorous, melancholic, funny, visually appealing ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, eccentricity, existentialism, friendship, food, loneliness, midlife crisis, sarcasm, restaurant, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 393
Full Grown Men (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: amusement park, friends, family relations, couples, moral dilemma, buddies, introspection, youth, couple relations, on the road, fish out of water, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Style: surreal, road movie, intellectual, spiritual, mind bending ...
Plot: satire, crow, philosophy, surrealism, mythology, hawk, travel, road trip, spirituality, mysticism, politics, on the road ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.7
 2K
Eldorado (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some ...
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, disorder, drug abuse, road trip, self discovery, friendship, indifference, coming of age, male nudity, nudity, car thief, friends ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Three and Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: friendship, terminal illness, teenage life, cons and scams, writer's life, friends, dark humor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, kinky sex, unfulfillment, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.9
 3K
Aaltra (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white ...
Plot: on the road, disability, friendship, hospital, dark humor, misfit, physical disability, life is a bitch, escapades, money, loser, farmer ...
Time: year 2004
Place: finland, belgium, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Stockholm Boogie (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, light
Plot: friendship, couples, love and romance, silly humor, friends, buddies, lifestyle, breakup, singleness, summer, breaking up with girlfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.0
 2K
Rubin and Ed (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot." Their trip takes them across Utah's desert where they have run-ins with Ed'd ...
Style: dark comedy, road movie, cult classic, psychotronic, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, desert, on the road, loner, surrealism, quirky character, name calling, travel, cat, salesman, friendship, weirdo ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: utah, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.2
 9K
Dear Diary (1993)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
Style: surreal, intellectual, melancholic, satirical, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: motorcycle, eccentricity, multiple storylines, self discovery, diary, introspection, midlife crisis, lifestyle, terminal illness, friendship, artists and showbiz, cancer ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.2
 13K
Smoke Signals (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, on the road, native american reservation, self discovery, friendship, road trip, native, indians, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place: idaho, arizona, indiana, america, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they ...
Style: road movie, captivating, humorous, feel good, light
Plot: travel, youth, society, lifestyle, friendship, self discovery, escapades, beautiful scenery, human nature, life philosophy, teacher, wealth ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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