Movies like Drowning on Dry Land
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Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A taxi driver (Naveen Andrews) picks up a fare (Barbara Hershey) in Manhattan. She offers the driver a large sum to drive her to the desert. While the pair drive across the country, the woman tries various strategies to lure the driver into conversation. Despite his reticence, the pair begins a tumultuous and steamy relationship.
Style:
road movie, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, desert, taxi, interracial relations, on the road, love and romance, couples, airport, opposites attract, prostitute, female nudity, sex scene, adultery, chauffeur, taxi driver, smoking, motel, road trip, driving, clerk, diner, waitress, car, credit card, outdoor sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and psychological films with plots about love and romance, couples, female nudity, couple relations, love, society and kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Drowning on Dry Land: Neo Ned (2005), A Dangerous Woman (1993), John and Mary (1969), Heavy (1995), Chastity (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
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talky, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, city life, sexual relations, singleness ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
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realistic, touching, feel good, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, nude, waitress, seduction, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Go on a cross country adventure with Cher in her first dramatic film, Chastity. Chastity ('Cher') is a lonely young girl who is hitchhiking across the country in hopes of finding someone to love her and make her forget her disturbed past. ...
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road movie, semi serious, realistic, cult film
Plot:
girl, women, couples, friends, on the run, gays and lesbians, hopes, prostitute, dishonesty, young lovers, self discovery, love and romance ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
waitress, widow, diner, self discovery, single mother, arizona desert, relationships, suburbs, friendship, mother, children, road trip ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, witty, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Niagra, Niagra" begins quietly in a drugstore in Poughkeepsie, where Marcie, the film's disarming heroine, likes to shoplift. She literally crashes into Seth, a quiet outsider, also on a shoplifting spree. Marcie invites Seth to ...
Style:
melancholic, road movie, intense, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
love story, pharmacy, road trip, on the road, pharmacist, love and romance, couples, mental illness, couple relations, disability, lovers on the run, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, new jersey, toronto ontario canada, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, so much space and so few people, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
self discovery, journey, on the road, love affair, satellite, sex scene, culture clash, wilderness, society, time travel, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia, caucasus
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
Style:
erotic, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, erotic, contemplative
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexually dissatisfied wife, writers, older woman younger man relationship, adultery, cheating wife, love affair, older woman younger man sex, female writer, neglectful husband, infidelity, creative block, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with ...
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serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
555
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality set on a sweltering 4th of July evening.
Style:
realistic, sincere, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
interracial relations, gay, couples, society, couple relations, teenage life, coming of age, family relations, love and romance, gender, parents and children, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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44%
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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sexy, serious, erotic, realistic, sexual
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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40%
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Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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