Movies like Big Sur
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Big Sur (2013)
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
introspection, writer's life, friendship, friendship between men, lifestyle, solitude, mentally unstable, addiction, social relations, solitary, art, beach, poet, friend, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, small town, artists and showbiz, birthday, male full rear nudity, bookstore, dead animal, cathedral, kiss, typewriter ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sincere films with plots about friendship, couples, love and romance, friends, lifestyle, life is a bitch and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Big Sur: The Hours (2002), Black Limousine (2010), On the Road (2012), Picnic (2000), Burning Patience (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, depressing, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, women, poet, lesbianism ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, year 2001 ...
Place:
new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the city of dreams (IMDb.com).
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, introspection, down on your luck, downfall, addiction, depression, accidental death, love interest, surrealism, existentialism, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style:
road movie, sexy, inspirational, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, writers, drugs, on the road, infidelity, adaptation, friendship, sex scene, marijuana, youth, hitchhiker, nude ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, usa, alabama, virginia, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
231
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
love triangle, social differences, love affair, society, lifestyle, rivalry, fall in love, friendship, social relations, couples, small town, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on Skármeta's book, this is the story of a poor postman in Isla Negra who befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
politics, bittersweet, friends, love affair, fall in love, small town, friendship, looking for love, state affairs, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Films like On the Road
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, widow, friendship, farm, polygamy, suburbs, open relationship, couples, friends, fall in love, small town, small town life ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 1920s, 1930s, 50s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
163
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
small town, social relations, couples, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, womanizer, friendship, small town life, couple relations, countryside, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style:
talky, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, city life, sexual relations, singleness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
country music, haunted by the past, family problems, fall in love, love and romance, small town, estrangement, spouse leaving, family relations, country, family curse, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, friendship, social relations, law enforcement, society, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, family life, haunted by the past, mental illness, human nature, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, couples, estrangement, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
757
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tess enlists her biological father - a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks - and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
youth, father daughter relationship, parents and children, family relations, friendship, friend, female protagonist, romantic relationship, friends, relationships, coming of age, loss ...
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, family relations, hopes, coming of age, youth, massacre, mountain ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
128
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Becca, a beautiful 28 year-old woman whose perfect life is brought to an abrupt halt after she accidentally discovers a lump in her breast.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
introspection, self discovery, hopes, unfulfillment, twists and turns, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, strong female presence, cancer, female protagonist, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
4K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
disability, blindness, love affair, love and romance, couples, writer's life, infidelity, dishonesty, blind man, novelist, moral dilemma, blind character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies like The Hours
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, queer cinema ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay romance, gay, gay interest, gays and lesbians, lgbt, addiction, friendship, hiv, introspection, lifestyle, destructive relationship, hopes ...
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21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A harrowing journey down the dark spiral of drug addiction. As Stephen Jameson's carefully constructed life slowly falls apart, his belief system is shattered when he discovers that he's no longer the functioning addict that he once was.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, drug addict, pills, couples, society, introspection, drug addiction, drug use, drug overdose, drugs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
mental illness, obsession, addiction, couples, love affair, mind game, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, dangerous attraction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, rehabilitation ...
Time:
1910s, 21st century
Place:
hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake's father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexual, desert, small town, lgbt, friendship, homecoming, gender, lifestyle, life is a bitch, friends, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, self discovery, friendship, small town, haunted by the past, hopes, death of wife, redemption, father daughter relationship, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, poetry, parent child relationship, writer's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, americana, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
detroit, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, novelist, society, womanizer, sexual content, singleness ...
Place:
usa
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20%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, addiction, celebrity culture, drug abuse, adultery, rebel, rebellion, gay ...
Time:
1940s, 50s
Place:
new york, mexico, latin america, usa, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, tragic love, social differences, love affair, infidelity, showbiz, dishonesty, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, psychological
Plot:
musician's life, drug abuse, addiction, music, life is a bitch, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, nightlife, alcohol abuse, identity crisis, suspense ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Films like And While We Were Here
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
Style:
captivating, humorous, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, best friends, homecoming, friends, old love, couples, couple relations, introspection, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, youth, friends, power relations, social relations, lifestyle, teenage life, female friendship, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
quadriplegic, self discovery, friendship, starting over, couples, disability, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, small town, tragic event, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, couples, hospital, friendship, hopes, psychopath, psychology, addiction, mental disorder, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
split personality, family relations, power relations, social relations, unfulfillment, young lovers, unlikely couple, youth, love and romance, misfit, hopes, love affair ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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