Movies like Moon Dogs
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Moon Dogs (2016)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A wonderfully sustained feature debut from Philip John (who directed episodes of Downton Abbey and Outlander), this anarchic coming-of-age story makes the very best of some stunning Scottish locations. It follows the misadventures of two teenage step brothers (Jack Parry-Jones and Christy O’Donnell) as they head off on a road trip across Scotland, with their relationship challenged by Caitlin (a charismatic Tara Lee), the free spirited and enigmatic girl who comes between them. Cameos from Denis Lawson and Shauna Macdonald and Anton Newcombe’s soundtrack add much to the film.
Plot:
coming of age, road trip
Place:
ireland, scotland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, captivating and realistic films with plots about coming of age, friendship, road trip, friends, society, family relations and youth mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Moon Dogs: Saltwater (2000), You're Ugly Too (2015), A Jar Full of Life (2018), Mickybo and Me (2004), This Is the Year (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles ...
Plot:
irish, loss of mother, bet, loss of son
Place:
ireland
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After her mother’s death, Stacey moves with her uncle Will to a remote region in the Irish midlands. As the two cautiously get to know each other, they have to deal with the dark shadows of the past.
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, starting over, going straight, odd couple, youth, hopes, coming of age, partners, dysfunctional relationship, uncle niece relationship, bereavement, probation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marleen (Jella Haase) is 20, but can't choose, what to do with her life. Her older brother (Matthias Schweighöfer) traveled the world for years but never has been to the Antarctic. He is at home for a few days, but the ticket for the next ship ...
Style:
road movie, light, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, death of brother, road trip, mother daughter relationship, hitchhiker, last wish, family relations, society, car, father daughter relationship, loss of brother, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica, hamburg germany
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, kids in trouble, mischievous children, coming of age, obsession, society, political unrest, boy, friends, boyhood, human rights ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nebbish high school senior and his best friends embarks on a road trip to attend the greatest music festival of the year in a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams.
Style:
disturbing, satirical, semi serious, captivating, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, road trip, teenage love, teenage protagonist, relationship problems, love affair, adolescence, friends, teenage life, love interest, rock concert, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Films like The Fundamentals of Caring
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, family relations, overnight success, getting home, society, youth, love and romance, juvenile delinquency, hopes, fall in love, small town ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
California 1962, Five girls: beautiful Sharon, ugly-duckling Andy, nice Poo and hot-to-trot Jill support their best friend Tookie when she prepares to marry her boyfriend Pat. But the two of them realize that they are not prepared to get married, ...
Plot:
marriage, teenage girl, female protagonist, engagement, small town, friendship, road trip, fiance fiancee relationship, best friend, coming of age, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
60s, 50s, year 1962
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two close friends from Sudbury, Ontario take a road trip to Toronto that will change the nature of their relationship.
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbt teen, best friend, road trip, friendship, gay man has sex with a woman, friends who hate each other, on the road, coming of age, homosexual
Place:
toronto ontario canada, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A coming of age road trip film about a depressed writer back from his first year of college who reunites with his three childhood friends: a drunk, a sex addict, and a manic-depressive. In an attempt to abandon their empty lives, they embark on a ...
Plot:
road trip, writers, childhood, drunk, divorce, coming of age, depression, summer, nymphomaniac, travel
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53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
Plot:
acid trip, coming of age, college, breakup, drug trip, film school
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51%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan is in the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses.
Style:
road movie, humorous, captivating, exciting, light
Plot:
death, death of friend, road trip, friendship, nature, funeral, terminal illness, on the road, woman, cancer, dead sister, secret ...
Place:
scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1990s Scotland, a group of Catholic school girls get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, captivating, feminist film
Plot:
teenager, teenage sexuality, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, underage drinking, grownups, adolescence vs adulthood, schoolgirl, sexual awakening, singing competition, coming of age, lgbt ...
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young Black man, raised in a White neighborhood, ridiculed for not being "Black enough" decides to go to the hood to hang out with his gangster cousin and discover what it really means to be "Black." He eventually faces the ...
Plot:
postmodernism, plot twist, coming of age, african american, twists and turns, dialogue driven, musical number
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45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A teenager fails to find (and keep) jobs which makes his father doubt the reason might be the boy's lack of sexual experience. As all his efforts prove to be unsuccessful, the father gives up, but not the boy's aunt.
Plot:
loss of virginity, coming of age, bakery, first sex, male full rear nudity, male nudity, cockroach, incest, older woman younger man sex, large breasts, bare breasts
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42%
245
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Plot:
coming of age, dog, friendship, father son relationship, boy, family relations, heart disease, mother son relationship, psychic
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41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
coming of age, youth, self discovery, life is a bitch, politics, society, state affairs, religions or cults, injustice, political unrest, unemployment, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, los angeles, england, california, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
499
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Larry and Sophie are in love. They bribe Tom to book them into a hotel for an afternoon's tryst and look forward to getting to know each other, like countless couples before them. But Larry and Sophie aren't any couple; they both have ...
Plot:
disability, bus, hotel, cinema, farce, condom, bar
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Style:
surreal
Plot:
blindness, death of mother, blind man, stuffed toy, surrogate son, landlord, father son relationship, rat, mother son relationship, periscope, dark glasses, garbage can ...
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other
Plot:
homelessness, prostitute, homeless, mother daughter relationship
Place:
ireland
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all ...
Plot:
school, revolution, science, martial law, coming of age, high school
Time:
80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man taking the body of someone he barely knows for burial with his family. His good intentions are motivated by trying to patch up his relationship with his own brother. However, en route from West ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, light, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
last wish, road trip, sibling relationship, dark humor, airplane trip, dating show, death, irishman, relatives, funeral, humour, irish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, new york, northern ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
314
Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland ...
Plot:
drugs, female nudity, caper, cannabis, smuggling
Place:
ireland
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36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, lesbian, gay, lesbian teen, lgbtq, friendship, high school life, lesbian love, teenage life, couple relations, pretense ...
Time:
year 1995
Place:
ireland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From their first encounter as teenagers in high school, Scott and Sid seem unlikely friends. Scott is a shambolic dreamer, intent on carving out his own path in life and holding up a metaphorical middle finger to anyone who tries to stop him. He is ...
Style:
sad
Plot:
friend, teacher, drugs, running, police, vodka, best friend, dream, coming of age, friendship, toilet, alcohol ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
Style:
road movie, sweet, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, abortion, teenager, road trip, pregnant girl, women, schoolgirl, pregnant girlfriend, teenage girl, girlfriend, pregnant teenager ...
Time:
2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, on the road, social relations, goofy hero, best friends, hitchhiking, travel, inspiration, screenwriter, silly humor, radio dj ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Casey's conduct almost destroys Grace's engagement to preppie heartthrob Charlie (Wil ...
Plot:
fraternity, coming of age, engagement, college student, party, college, dormitory, goth girl, southerner
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Style:
road movie, humorous, light, captivating, art film ...
Plot:
coming of age, brother brother relationship, on the road, friendship, family relations, escapades, disorder, youth, boy, strike, musician, friends ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, track down, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, on the road, disorder, family life, humour, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in "Barrytown", a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, witty, parody ...
Plot:
friendship, food, working class, unemployment, irish, distopia, police investigation, dysfunctional family, addiction, transformation, creativity, restaurant ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, london, dublin ireland, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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