Movies like Joyride 1977

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Joyride (1977)
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Joyride (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Scott, John and Suzie quit their boring jobs and depart L.A. for Alaska to pursue their dream of their own salmon fishing business. They soon find that life in Alaska is more difficult than expected as they are forced to abandon their plans and make desperate choices just to survive.
Style: grindhouse, road movie, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
Plot: on the road, hostage, robbery, heist, escape, friends, chases and races, teenage life, coming of age, partner, downfall, criminal heroes, chaos and mayhem, workplace situations, nudity, violent content, teenager, money, friendship, journey, poverty, boredom, employment, naked woman, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: alaska
Keyword: partners

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Most similar movies to Joyride

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, semi serious and rough films with plots about heist, criminal heroes, chases and races, robbery, disorder, on the road and on the run mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Joyride: Little Cigars (1973), Made in U.S.A. (1987), The Squeeze (1978), The Pom Pom Girls (1976), Black Day Blue Night (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Cigars (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: gangster, on the run, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, unlikely criminals, rivalry, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, gang, chases and races, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.3
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Made in U.S.A. (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: wild ride, on the road, friendship, outlaw, youth, chases and races, buddies, unlikely criminals, teenage life, disorder, dull life, wolf ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, california, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.2
 441
The Squeeze (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, safecracker, crime wave, swing, disorder, cons and scams, buddies, dishonesty, betrayal, vengeance, criminal heroes, master and servant ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to ...
Style: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, shopping mall, caper, money, disorder, friends, couples, contests and competitions, buddies, society, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, sexy, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, american football, high school, drag racing, teen angst, prank, small town, teenage girl, sexy teenager, exploitation, vandalism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Black Day Blue Night (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A wife's husband is cheating on her. She decides to go on a road trip with her husband's other woman. While driving the two women pick up a hitchhiker. The man they pick up may be a robber and murderer on the run from the cops. A policeman ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, highway, adultery, road trip, nudity, sex, female nudity, husband, hitchhiker, armored car robbery, wife, police ...
Time: 90s
Place: phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
Style: sex comedy, grindhouse, psychotronic, action thriller, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: white trash, heist, on the road, redneck, exploitation, pursuit, crime spree, sexy girls, hicksploitation, woman with a gun, small town, prison ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: orgasm, murder, nudity, exploitation, car, fugitive, robbery, sheriff, on the run, on the road, killed during sex, female nudity ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Wild Horses (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Still Breathing and theft in a financial, Joseph (Hector Alterio), an old anarchist, and a young employee, Pedro (Leonardo Sbaraglia) live for four days violent and compassionate alternatives in their desperate flight from the Patagonia Argentina. ...
Style: road movie, twisted, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, wild horse, chase, bank, on the road, hostage, horse, satire, pretense, partner, fugitives, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: stoner, woman with a gun, on the road, heist, partner, friends, disorder, looking for sex, nothing goes right, buddies, womanizer, drug dealing ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: coming of age, road trip, youth, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, disorder, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, texas, florida, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 2.6
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Bank Roll (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked ...
Style: humorous, tense, captivating, light, exciting ...
Plot: bank, crime gone awry, on the run, stalking, caper, underground, danger, friendship, robbery, destiny, righting the wronged, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Style: road movie, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: car chase, racing, exodus, pop culture, on the road, road trip, partner, nudity, chase, obsessive quest, chases and races, adventurer ...
Time: future, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, destiny, hijacking, money, aviation, robbery, perfect crime, murder, intrigue, bare breasts, nudity, missing person ...
Time: year 1981, 70s
Place: washington state, portland oregon, seattle, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Thief (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
Style: crime thriller, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: heist, criminal heroes, rivalry, going straight, dishonesty, gambling, loot, debt, robbery, gambler, cat burglar
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 571
Sinful Davey (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, on the run, chase, redemption, starting over, disorder, love, father, friendship, partner, bare breasts, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, regency period
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
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Graduation (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. ...
Style: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: graduation, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, friendship, financial problem, unlikely criminals, partner, youth, buddies, teenage life, high school, high school life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.2
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Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style: entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sweet Little Lies (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: no overview yet.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, humorous, road movie, light ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, on the road, society, cons and scams, youth, rebelliousness, journey, self discovery, misfit, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.5
 156
Alligator Eyes (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three young New York men decide to travel South for a few days away from the Big Apple. They pick up a beautiful, mysterious young sight less woman with a strange and unsettling past. All three are captivated and fascinated by her, but can she be ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: hitchhiker, seduction, amusement park, hostage, island, on the road, femme fatale, battle of the sexes, nudity, blind woman, manipulation, profanity ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A powerful Chilean gangster uses everything in his power to stop the woman that wants to kill him, a sexy mercenary known as "the machine gun woman". The staggering sum of cash he offers for her head sets in motion an army of hitmen. And ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: gunfight, woman with a gun, assassination, danger, criminal heroes, gory, gangster, female assassin, chases and races, tango, shootout, gun store ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: santiago chile, chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Heist (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ex-con Neal Skinner (Pierce Brosnan) seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens (Tom Skerritt) for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vengeance, criminal's revenge, injustice, vigilantism, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, going straight, criminal heroes, master criminal, car chase, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.5
 1K
Crazy Mama (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America.
Style: political, cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: exploitation, crime spree, cross country, female nudity, rock and roll, bank robbery, family relations, on the road, robbery, heist gone wrong, three generations, violent content ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: california, florida, las vegas, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style: road movie, humorous, action thriller, light, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heist, chase, treasure hunt, on the road, car chase, buddy, robbery, bank robbery, rivalry, preacher, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Little Laura and Big John (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, rough, realistic, serious
Plot: woman with a gun, bank robber, sheriff, best friend, nudity, violent content, on the road, on the run, gang, chases and races, heist, teenage life ...
Time: 1920s, 1900s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough, dark comedy ...
Plot: law enforcement, criminal heroes, gangster, murder, greed, airport, uncle nephew relationship, magic, dog, graffiti, aviation, taxi driver ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.3
 280
Decisions (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: crime gone awry, urban ghetto, disorder, law enforcement, police corruption, gangster, friendship, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, heist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
 832
Hazard (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage rebellion, street gang, heist, escape, coming of age, shootout, car theft, sunset, cat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, new york, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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