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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, independent film
Plot:
beat generation, friendship, friendship between men, introspection, writer's life, lifestyle, solitude, mentally unstable, addiction, social relations, solitary, novelist, beach, poet, friend, art, american history, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, small town, artists and showbiz, biopic, female nudity, birthday ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
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Most similar movies to Big Sur
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and sincere films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, lifestyle, friends, artists and showbiz and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Big Sur: Black Limousine (2010), On the Road (2012), The Hours (2002), John and Mary (1969), Cross Creek (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the city of dreams (IMDb.com).
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, down on your luck, introspection, addiction, downfall, depression, accidental death, love interest, surrealism, existentialism, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, 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, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, writers, beat generation, homoeroticism, nude, infidelity, homoerotic friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, poetry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, 1950s, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, arizona, california, usa, virginia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 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:
depressing, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
Similarity:
50%
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:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, commitment, bare breasts, love, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, singleness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
26%
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:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
open relationship, love triangle, suburbs, polygamy, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
25%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot:
beat generation, love triangle, infidelity, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, celebrity culture, drug abuse, addiction, adultery, rebellion, rebel ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
new york, mexico, usa, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
24%
300
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, lifestyle, rivalry, society, fall in love, friendship, couples, social relations, small town, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
23%
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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, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
mental illness, couples, obsession, addiction, love affair, rehabilitation, drug abuse, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, dangerous attraction, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
22%
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, friendship, looking for love, love affair, small town, fall in love, state affairs, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
22%
172
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:
independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, social relations, couples, friends, womanizer, couple relations, love and romance, artists and showbiz, small town life, countryside, murder, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ontario canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Davy is a 28-year-old writer on a road trip to promote his unpublished collection of short stories. A random phone call in Davy's motel room from a mysterious, sexy woman named Nicole leads to a series of phone sex sessions that surprisingly ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, self discovery, journey, introspection, mysterious character, on the road, lifestyle, family relations, long distance relationship, love and romance, lgbt, phone sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
1K
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, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, novelist, love affair, lifestyle, couples, unfulfillment, young lovers, society, in love, womanizer ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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, independent film ...
Plot:
country music, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, spouse leaving, small town, fall in love, family relations, country, tragic romance, family curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
21%
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, sexual, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
gay, homosexual, closeted homosexual, friendship, small town, desert, lgbt, homecoming, life is a bitch, gender, lifestyle, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, gay, gay sex, gays and lesbians, introspection, writer's life, gender, love and romance, poet, novelist, lgbt, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
usa, ohio, new york, paris france, mexico
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, social relations, dishonesty, society, law enforcement, lifestyle, murder, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Style:
cynical, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
fraud, manipulation, couples, cons and scams, blind ambition, ambition, rise and fall, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, biopic, hotel ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every attempt to help her volatile adult daughter (Marin Ireland) get on her feet, and in-so-doing neglects herself, channeling all of her womanly desires ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, life is a bitch, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, parents and children, single parent, sexual attraction, passionate kiss, profanity, hudson river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
biracial, older woman younger man relationship, in love, lifestyle, fall in love, relationships, love story, society, relationship problems, social relations, love, love affair ...
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug, alcoholism, recovery, drug abuse, drug addict, cautionary tale, substance abuse, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico, california, new york
Similarity:
20%
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
quadriplegic, self discovery, friendship, starting over, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, disability, couples, small town, tragic event, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, wisconsin
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
20%
985
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, female nudity, nude model, friends, couples, family relations, fall in love, introspection, self discovery, moral dilemma, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, africa, usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, 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:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
musician's life, addiction, drug abuse, music, life is a bitch, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, alcohol abuse, nightlife, identity crisis, lgbt ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
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, touching, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, best friend, homecoming, friends, old love, couples, introspection, couple relations, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style:
realistic, serious, lgbt cinema, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay romance, gay interest, gay sex, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, addiction, hiv, destructive relationship, introspection, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
19%
175
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:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
cancer, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, self discovery, terminal illness, twists and turns, dealing with death, life is a bitch, strong female presence, female protagonist, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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