Movies like Trees Lounge
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Trees Lounge (1996)
17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Style:
talky, gloomy, art house, thought provoking, intellectual, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, drugs, addiction, drug addiction, suburbs, self discovery, small town, coming of age, alcoholic, older man younger woman relationship, catastrophe, gangsters, drug addict, relationships, dark humor, loneliness, life, friendship, writers, depression, obsession, weed, loner, age difference, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, talky and weird films with plots about dialogue, redemption, depression, loneliness, mentor, crime gone awry and character study mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Trees Lounge: Barfly (1987), Factotum (2005), Ghost World (2001), Henry Fool (1997), Smashed (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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