Movies like Joyride 1977
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Joyride (1977)
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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:
road movie, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot:
on the road, hostage, robbery, heist, escape, friends, graphic violence, teenage life, coming of age, partners, downfall, criminal heroes, chaos and mayhem, workplace situations, nude, teenager, money, friendship, journey, poverty, boredom, employment, female nudity, sexy woman, road ...
Time:
70s
Place:
alaska
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Most similar movies to Joyride
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and rough films with plots about heist, criminal heroes, disorder, chases and races, partners, on the run and robbery mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Joyride: Made in U.S.A. (1987), Goodbye Pork Pie (1980), Little Cigars (1973), Wild Horses (1995), The Squeeze (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, rough, road movie
Plot:
on the road, friendship, criminal, disorder, dull life, wild ride, buddies, youth, unlikely criminals, teenage life, car theft, theft ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, california, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
car chase, on the road, road trip, nude, obsessive quest, chase, adventurer, escapades, partners, friendship, heist, teenage life ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
gangsters, on the run, disorder, dishonesty, gang, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, love and romance, rivalry, love affair ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
anarchist, hostage, on the road, bank, chase, pretense, satire, kidnapping, heist, friendship, missing person, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, safecracker, suspense, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gang, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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, youth, road trip, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, nothing goes right, disorder, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, texas, florida, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
murder, adultery, road trip, nude, female nudity, sex, police, armored car robbery, hitchhiker, wife, cheating, husband ...
Time:
90s
Place:
phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Butler is an experienced car thief, McCoy a struggling reporter trying to nail a bad guy-senator. Meeting for the first time when they're both in dire need of air transportation, they team up long enough for Butler to steal a car with a very ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violent, graphic violence, disorder, law enforcement, gangsters, blind ambition, chase, witnessing a crime, partners, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, dishonesty, going straight, criminal heroes, rivalry, gambling, debt, robbery, gambler, cat burglar
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
heist, shopping mall, money, disorder, couples, friends, society, criminal heroes, contests and competitions, dishonesty, partners, love and romance ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Films like Dope
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, realistic, semi serious, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
exploitation, cross country, female nudity, bank robbery, cult, rock and roll, family relations, on the road, three generations, crime spree, robbery, heist gone wrong ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
arkansas, california, florida, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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:
woman with a gun, on the road, heist, looking for sex, disorder, stoners, friends, buddies, partners, nothing goes right, drug dealing, womanizer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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, psychotronic, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, exploitation, hicksploitation, woman with a gun, white trash, trailer trash, hostage, prison, car chase, on the road, small town, on the run ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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, bank robbery, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, friendship, financial problem, unlikely criminals, partners, buddies, youth, cons and scams, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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:
sexy, not serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, american football, high school, teen angst, prank, small town, sexy teenager, exploitation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, vandalism, van, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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117
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, captivating, tense, light, exciting ...
Plot:
heist, bank, crime gone awry, stalking, on the run, caper, underground, friendship, destiny, righting the wronged, disorder, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heist, vengeance, criminal's revenge, injustice, vigilantism, law enforcement, rivalry, going straight, criminal heroes, master criminal, dishonesty, frame up ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK, Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An aging outlaw helps a young half-breed learn the ropes.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, on the run, friendship, renegade, hostage, tough heroes, friends, criminal heroes, buddies, unlikely partners, fugitives, lone wolves ...
Time:
70s
Place:
arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
orgasm, murder, exploitation, car, runaway, sheriff, robbery, nude, on the run, killed during sex, female nudity, theft ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, rough, humorous ...
Plot:
heist, bandit, mercenary, drug dealing, chase, jungle, dog, friends, partners, on the run, gangsters, criminal heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, surprise ending
Plot:
hitchhiker, seduction, amusement park, nude, hostage, on the road, island, femme fatale, battle of the sexes, manipulation, graphic violence, couples ...
Time:
80s
Place:
north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
no overview yet.
Style:
captivating, humorous, thought provoking, road movie, light ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, society, coming of age, rebelliousness, youth, cons and scams, track down, journey, self discovery, rebellion, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, friendship, rivalry, gangsters, criminal heroes, dishonesty, heist, bank ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with WD Jones, ...
Style:
rough, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
partners, criminal heroes, heist, on the run, love and romance, chase, murderous pair, violence spree, bank robber, criminal, gangsters, serial killer ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A female buddy story in which Meg Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot:
road trip, friendship, buddy, female protagonist, girl power, abusive husband, truck driver, waitress, female friendship, human nature, couple relations, buddies ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alaska, wyoming, portland oregon, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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, realistic ...
Plot:
gangsters, law enforcement, criminal heroes, murder, greed, airport, uncle nephew relationship, magic, dog, graffiti, aviation, dogcatcher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An accidental murder brings two girls together in a series of wild crimes and romance over the course of an evening.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, murder, fall in love, partners, gender, lovers on the run, fugitives, drug dealing, disorder, dark humor, friendship, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, storage unit, farce, criminal heroes, betrayal, rivalry, law enforcement, crime gone awry, dishonesty, disorder, girlfriend, microchip ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
Style:
road movie, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, summer, travel, runaway, couples, friendship, on the road, heist, love and romance, partners, on the run, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
surfing, beach, coming of age, lifestyle, infidelity, summer, nude, human nature, misfit, youth, love and romance, disorder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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