Movies like Jerome

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Jerome (1998)
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of becoming an artist in Jerome, Arizona, a town he knows only through a postcard given to him years earlier by a co-worker. Naturally, an action as extreme as this is not without consequences. On his way, Wade meets Jane, a road hard, enigmatic drifter who lives the life of total freedom he has longed for. As the two speed farther and farther across the scorching Arizona desert, events snowball into an unforeseen crisis forcing Wade to confront realities he never could have imagined only hours earlier.
Style: independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: desert, on the road, factory, petty theft, misfit, love and romance, couples, self discovery, society, workplace romance, unemployment, family in crisis, small town, fish out of water, estrangement, small town life, hopes, unfulfillment, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, sex, prison, lesbian, thief, fight ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and crying films with plots about drinking, family relations, husband wife relationship, drink, telephone call, cigarette smoking and parents and children mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Jerome: Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993), The Dream Catcher (1999), American Gun (2005), Winter Solstice (2004), Tully (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, road trip, highway, salesman, self discovery, desert, friendship, deaf man ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona
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The Dream Catcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, self discovery, social misfits, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, oklahoma, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
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American Gun (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single mother, human nature, single parent, dealing with death, working class, parents and children, death in the family, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, virginia, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Winter Solstice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Time: year 2004
Place: florida, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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64%
The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: small town, family problems, brother brother relationship, pregnancy, vietnam war, welder, brothers, melancholy, murder, childhood, violence, blood ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
Style: depressing, tense, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: restaurant, food, racism, migration, refugee, worker, exile, gourmet, lgbt, cafe, unemployment, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
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62%
Down to the Bone (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, scary ...
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Place: new york, new york state, usa
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
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Audience: family outing
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Dynamiter (2011)
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
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54%
The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
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51%
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Steal Me (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film, crying
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 111 min.
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Audience: teens
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Time: year 2004
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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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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Fathers and Sons (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, love and romance, elderly, gender, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Road Movie (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: road movie, independent film, crying
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48%
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Country: USA
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
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Jesus' Son (1999)
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Country: Canada, USA
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Story: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Time: 70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
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45%
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Losing Chase (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: independent film, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, women, friendship, dysfunctional family, chase, lgbt, lgbtq, depression, lesbian erotica, mental illness, family relations ...
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Last Orders (2001)
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
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Leo (2002)
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 2001, 21st century
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Dandelion (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Map of the World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: black comedy, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
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Time: year 1999, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Best Sunday (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Hispanic teenager hides out from the law in the home of a good-natured, but rebellious, Caucasian teenage girl after killing two rednecks whom beat him up and left him for dead, leading to a collision of cultures between the two youths.
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot: erotica, forbidden love, small town, murder, racism, interracial relations, on the run, opposites attract, unlikely criminals, vengeance, youth, coming of age ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
First, Last and Deposit (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Tessa (Jessica White) faces more than the usual tribulations of adolescence. When bad times hit, she and her mother find themselves living on the streets. The injustice of poverty is emphasized by the fact that Tessa's school ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, touching, independent film ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, working class, family relations, survival, eviction, school, corporate crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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