Movies like Transit 2008

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Transit (2008)
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Transit (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: experimental
Plot: undercover cop, subway, dream
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, experimental, serious and realistic films with plots about subway, dream, female nudity, drug addict, friendship, friends and male nudity mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Transit: A Safe Place (1971), Quiet City (2007), Short Walk to Daylight (1972), I, a Man (1967), 8:46 (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Safe Place (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young woman named Noah lives alone in New York. She is a disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place." As a child she met a magician in Central ...
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, independent film, experimental
Plot: magic, hippie, childhood memory, woman, free spirit, world
Time: year 1971
Place: new york
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style: psychotronic, corny
Plot: disaster, subway, natural disaster, train, escape, racial tension, trapped, earthquake, flood, drug addict, railway, gas leak
Place: new york
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91%
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I, a Man (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the ...
Style: experimental, independent film
Plot: voyeurism, sex, male nudity, nudity, male prostitute, hustler, staircase, boredom
Time: 60s
Place: new york
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90%
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8:46 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
Plot: world
Time: september 11 2001
Place: new york
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Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Comedy directed by Joseph Jacoby.
Plot: broken heart, bachelor, car, party
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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78%
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Melissa (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club ...
Style: erotic
Plot: stripper, dancer, arrest, striptease, love triangle, dream, love, divorced father, strip club, best friend, police arrest, female nudity ...
Place: new york
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Margarita Happy Hour (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Five young women, each with children, meet once a week for $2 margaritas and discuss life, love and change.
Style: independent film
Plot: lactation, women, drug addict, group of friends, female friendship, unwed mother, bohemian, hipster, coming of age, cocaine, female artist, little girl ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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Golden Exits (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, art house ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family relations, loneliness, therapy, multiple storylines, sibling relationship, slim, foreigner, yankee, pretty girl, girl, marital problem ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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Party Talk (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Four creative and sexually confused high school seniors are forced to deal with their sense of isolation while attending a booze-soaked party in New York City.
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
Plot: dream, american dream, coming of age, high school friends, nightlife, rebellious teenager, teenager, party, friendship, friends, escapades, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on ...
Style: anthology, touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy
Plot: subway, train, coming of age, meaning of life, passenger, anti hero, social relations, social misfits, newlyweds, social differences, travel, mystery woman ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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63%
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Nunzio (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, ...
Plot: urban setting, sex, brother brother relationship, seduction, priest, rescue, neighborhood, saving a life, widow, paraplegic, bully, mentally challenged person ...
Time: year 1978
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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61%
Chelsea Girls (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
Style: underground film, avant garde, experimental, art house, psychedelic ...
Plot: lgbtq, art, designer, filmmaking, exploitation, surrealism, male nudity, house, dominatrix, blue, midnight
Time: 60s
Place: new york
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61%
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Out (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander."
Style: experimental, independent film
Plot: conspiracy, journey, whale, junkyard, marriage, dog, female nudity, on the road, native american, surrealism, motel, bus ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: venice beach california, new york, manhattan new york city, nevada, iowa ...
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Chloe, A to Z (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: When 22-year-old Chloe is left with an unexpected pregnancy after a sexy date, she must face her secret past to move into an uncertain future. Torn between her choices, her friends influence her difficult decision: abortion or adoption.
Style: mumblecore, independent film
Plot: past, secret, friend, restaurant, adoption, cell phone, beach, waitress, painting, gift, abrupt ending, counselor ...
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city
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Mendy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the ...
Plot: judaism, sexual repression, faith, drug trade, religion, dancing, friendship between men, roommate, childhood friend, orthodox jew, belief in god, female nudity ...
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Chappaqua (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Time: year 1966
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Experimental film.
Style: experimental, avant garde
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Place: france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Something Wild (1961)
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Country: USA
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Out of Step (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Known for his brutally violent policing tactics, suspended police officer Michael Clarke is sent undercover to infiltrate the notorious London criminal enterprise of Terance Turner, with the task of bringing the gang boss to justice.
Plot: undercover cop, hooligan, skinhead, angry, football hooligan, prison, undercover, migrant, mobster, gangster
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
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40%
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For Michelle (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in ...
Plot: love, death, accident, court, intimacy, custody
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Rage (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Place: new york
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39%
Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
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39%
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The Brig (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style: experimental, political, independent film
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style: intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, redemption, addiction, writers, nightlife, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, supportive spouse, downfall, alcohol abuse, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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37%
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, friendship, amusement park, gay interest, best friend, buddies, self discovery, social misfits, misfit, life is a bitch, betrayal, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
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