Movies like Lost in America
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Lost in America (1985)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
Style:
road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious, cynical, parody ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, fired from the job, on the road, marriage, couples, americana, nothing goes right, fish out of water, love and romance, down on your luck, disorder, promotion, human nature, hopes, couple relations, gambling, advertising, husband wife relationship, travel, motor home, tragedy, catastrophe, indians, distopia ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas, new york, los angeles, california, arizona
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and talky films with plots about catastrophe, dialogue, storytelling, mentor, culture clash, pornography and life philosophy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Lost in America: Real Life (1979), The Muse (1999), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Modern Romance (1981), Mother (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Style:
satirical, funny, humorous, witty, affectionate ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, society, family relations, dark humor, reality, family life, lifestyle, tv show, nothing goes right, disorder, fictional reality show, satire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, phoenix arizona, arizona, usa, hawaii
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to ...
Style:
feel good, satirical, funny, light, inspirational ...
Plot:
hollywood, muse, screenwriter, writers, manipulation, writer's life, mentor, runaway, workplace, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, witty, funny, light ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, farce, adoption, twists and turns, plot twist, family relations, visceral, crime gone awry, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, new york, michigan, california, san diego california ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, funny, intense, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
obsession, love, character study, honest, love and romance, couples, self discovery, fall in love, breakup, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nude, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Style:
parody, funny, satirical, witty, clever ...
Plot:
culture clash, satire, politics, sarcasm, farce, nothing goes right, society, actor's life, stand up comedian, islam, lone hero, mentor ...
Place:
india, middle east, egypt, new delhi, asia ...
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41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, witty, poignant ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother, mother son relationship, eccentricity, divorce, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, moral ambiguity, vengeance, violent, women, writers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully ...
Style:
ironic, satirical, humorous, light, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, eccentricity, loneliness, looking for love, love and romance, pregnancy, self discovery, dark humor, character study, adaptation, first contact, creativity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, tokyo, new jersey
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35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Josh is the consummate temp employee, avoiding all long-term connections and responsibilities, both at work and in his personal life. However, by the time his agency places him at the Schuyler & Mitchell law firm, Josh is tired of his ...
Style:
humorous, funny, stylized, satirical, absurd ...
Plot:
workplace, sarcasm, adaptation, law firm, relationships, creativity, disorder, nothing goes right, fighting the system, introspection, boss and employee, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style:
funny, humorous, witty, clever, melancholic ...
Plot:
travel, culture clash, chase, homeless, railway, marriage, cancer, first contact, justice, foul language, natural disaster, business ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
boston, new york, new jersey, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
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31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he ...
Style:
talky, witty, sexy, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
smoking, culture clash, friendship, nude, transformation, distopia, fantasy world, melancholy, childhood, dysfunctional family, mentor, solitude ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style:
parody, humorous, witty, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, prejudice, dark humor, movie business, actor's life, society, misfit, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, africa, usa
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30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has ...
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humorous, light, absurd, feel good, witty ...
Plot:
farce, eccentricity, sarcasm, deadpan, cruise, hidden identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, satire, ship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Style:
humorous, sexy, cerebral, melancholic, ironic ...
Plot:
working class, redemption, bittersweet, christmas, desert, female nudity, catastrophe, adaptation, character study, dark humor, culture clash, solitude ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
nevada, utah, california, usa, las vegas ...
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28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
Style:
absurd, light, talky, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
french, dysfunctional family, self discovery, twins, disorder, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, satire, cinema, writers, existentialism ...
Time:
90s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo
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28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, intense, sex comedy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
culture clash, nude, mentor, runaway, catastrophe, existentialism, distopia, art, gangsters, fantasy world, redemption, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, georgia, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
Style:
humorous, light, satirical, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, promotion, sarcasm, justice, greed, supermarket, ambition, workplace, boss and employee, corporate world, husband wife relationship, dancing ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, canada, illinois, usa, quebec
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27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, clever, not serious ...
Plot:
gambling, poker, greed, adaptation, sarcasm, contests and competitions, ambition, rivalry, underdog, uninhibited rivalry, disorder, card playing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, texas, usa, nevada, new jersey
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26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, disorder, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, crumbling relationship, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought ...
Style:
funny, parody, clever, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, small town, improv, bittersweet, theater, isolation, artist, coming of age, corruption, life philosophy, city council, deadpan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
missouri, california, usa
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25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
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road movie, art house, atmospheric, stylized, thought provoking ...
Plot:
immigrants, road trip, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash, friendship, self discovery, alienation, partners, immigration, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, new jersey, tokyo, hungary ...
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24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style:
romantic, touching, humorous, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
afterlife, heaven, destiny, death, fall in love, courage, life & death, reincarnation, courtroom, honest, unlikely friendships, life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
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24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
Style:
humorous, parody, satirical, stylized, semi serious ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, melancholic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, fish out of water, showbiz, couples, actor's life, young lovers, celebrity culture, hollywood ...
Time:
80s, 18th century, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Style:
humorous, feel good, clever, light, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
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sexism, female empowerment, workplace, shyness, workplace situations, siblings relations, hopes, love and romance, artist, father daughter relationship, eccentricity, feminism ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey, ireland, california ...
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23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrants, deportation, mistaken identity, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors, interracial relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately ...
Style:
satirical, stylized, talky, philosophical, witty ...
Audience:
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Time:
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country ...
Style:
humorous, funny, talky, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night
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road trip, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, crumbling marriage, nothing goes right, partners, couple relations, buddies, dishonesty, on the road, friends ...
Place:
usa, nevada, arkansas
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23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Place:
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, las vegas, los angeles, usa
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style:
talky, humorous, feel good, funny, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, americana, small town life, disorder, nothing goes right ...
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Place:
new england, england, vermont
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23%
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