Movies like To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
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Original name: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, entertaining, campy, light, sweet, melancholic, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, transvestism, friendship, small town, gender bending, cross dressing, on the road, female impersonator, road trip, gender, culture clash, lgbt, gay slur, lgbtq, transformation, honest, domestic violence, redneck, car breakdown, cross country trip, showbiz, ambition, contests and competitions, cross country, women ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
nebraska, london, australia, california, usa, new york
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Most similar movies to To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, melancholic and semi serious films with plots about storytelling, culture clash, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, runaway and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar: Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Kinky Boots (2005), The Iron Ladies (2000), 10 Items or Less (2006), 4th Man Out (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night
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road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, honest, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, nothing goes right, coming of age, parenthood, drugs ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, new mexico, arizona, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, gay, desert, road trip, gay slur, transvestism, bus, gender bending, on the road, female impersonator, homosexual, lgbtq ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only ...
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, sexy, inspirational ...
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chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
transvestism, cabaret, fashion, small town, family business, gay, fashion show, transvestite, working class, gay interest, gay slur, gender bending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
milan italy, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The two main characters, Mon and Jung, play two gay transvestites, who had been constantly overlooked by volleyball coaches because of their appearance. However, when a local team changes coaches, the new coach holds tryouts for a new team. When Mon ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, inspirational, light ...
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teens, chick flick
Plot:
transvestite, gay, transsexual, underdog, transvestism, volleyball, gender bending, sport, coming out, lgbt, against the odds, injustice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
thailand, california, asia, bangkok thailand, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, witty, touching ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, mentor, job interview, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Place:
los angeles, california, tokyo, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Adam is your average working-class guy living in small-town America. He's an auto mechanic who spends his free time with his tight-knit band of bros, Chris, Nick and Ortu, with whom he does everything—poker, video games, shooting hoops, ...
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kids, chick flick
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gay, coming out, friendship, happy ending, gay slur, relationships, lgbtq, prejudice, loneliness, women, dating, gay son ...
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style:
talky, sentimental, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexual, gay interest, gays and lesbians, gay bar, gay bashing, lgbtq, homosexuality, christmas, gay slur, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
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road movie, touching, melancholic, sweet, semi serious ...
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teens, girls' night, teen drama
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Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the ...
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talky, clever, humorous, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
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realistic, witty, sentimental, touching, sexy ...
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chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, aids, male nudity, gay couple, lgbtq, friendship, nude, blind character, bittersweet, gay interest, homosexuality, blind man ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, england, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sexy, light, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, teen angst, mother, love, teenager, bittersweet, small town, friendship, nude, interracial romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
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transsexual, gay, transvestism, gender, betrayal, self discovery, singer, berlin wall, musician, musician's life, teenage boy, music ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, east germany, kansas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, beauty pageant, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, ambition, single parent, child illness, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new ...
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Audience:
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friendship, paranoia, dreams, gangsters, existentialism, fantasy world, homosexuality, justice, life philosophy, lone hero, first contact, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, coming out, friendship, lgbt, small town, self discovery, native american, gay love, gay couple, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, usa, london, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind ...
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talky, clever, emotional, sexy, satirical ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
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teens, girls' night, kids
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usa, new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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transvestism, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, farce, spy, transsexual, mentor, women, british, natural disaster, multiple storylines ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
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Audience:
teens, girls' night
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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.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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chick flick, date night, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Time:
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