Movies like Down the Road Again

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Down the Road Again (2011)
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Down the Road Again (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian Classic Goin’ Down the Road. Now, some forty years later, Joey has died, and Pete must fulfill his last wish: to take his ashes back to Cape Breton Island, as well as a few other tasks along the way. Armed with a series of letters and an envelope full of money, Pete heads back home. DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN is a touching, comedic and romantic tale of second chances at life and love.
Style: road movie
Plot: survival, cancer, on the road, road trip, retirement, canuxploitation, attorney, beach, swimming pool, memories, letter, garden, odyssey, car, ashes, chapel, vintage car, dance, dancing, record player, pool table, woman smoking cigarette, road
Time: 2010s
Place: toronto ontario canada, nova scotia, vancouver, nova scotia, canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out road movie, realistic, captivating and independent film films with plots about road trip, on the road, travel, beach, survival, friendship and father son relationship mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Down the Road Again: Road to La Paz (2015), Rip-Off (1971), Cab to Canada (1998), Something About Love (1988), Weirdos (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Goin' Down the Road (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, friends, female nudity, survival, train, waitress, snow, bowling, pregnancy, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 70s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, toronto ontario canada
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Road to La Paz (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sebastian is unemployed, finding pleasure only in his old Peugeot. He got married to his girlfriend Jazmin and having no income, he starts a job of a private ride service. One day, a regular customer, Jalil, an old Arab man suggests a long distance ...
Style: road movie, intercultural, captivating, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: car, dog, journey, road trip, cultural difference, culture, spiritual journey, cross cultural relations, travel, survival, coach, vintage car ...
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47%
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Rip-Off (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship, coming of age, canuxploitation, teenage boy, high school, teenager, commune, youth, media, rock band, filmmaking, high school student ...
Time: 70s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Cab to Canada (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An elderly woman (Maureen O'Hara) and a young cabby (Jason Beghe) seek life's meaning as they drive from California to Canada.
Style: road movie
Plot: taxi, driver, single mother, boy, road trip, friendship, male female relationship, old woman, old age, taxi driver, on the road, father figure ...
Place: vancouver, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Something About Love (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the ...
Style: independent film, surprise ending
Plot: father son relationship, mortician, high school reunion, alzheimer's disease
Place: nova scotia, canada, los angeles, nova scotia, canada
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Weirdos (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two Nova Scotian teens who hit the road in July 1976 accompanied by the laconic ghost of (the still-living) Andy Warhol.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, contemplative, sexy ...
Plot: father son relationship, boy, mental illness, runaway, road trip, gay, couples, couple relations, love, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, parents and children ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada
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Camilla (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
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Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: georgia, cincinnati ohio, toronto ontario canada
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33%
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Boxing Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his problems: buying foreclosed properties from banks at a fraction of their value, refi tting them for a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: on the road, moral dilemma, danger, forces of nature, boss and employee, power relations, road trip, survival, chauffeur, greed, mountain, society ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: road movie, realistic, touching, scenic, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, countryside, journey, self discovery, strike, hopes, travel, hitchhiking, student, journalist, survival, introspection ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: uplifting, romantic
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Foreverland (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: healing power, miraculous event, hopes, self discovery, last wish, on the road, bittersweet, terminal illness, life is a bitch, road trip, church, shrine ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Stolen Days (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, road movie
Plot: father son relationship, road trip, family relations, father, father and son, family problems, estrangement, relationship problems, father son estrangement, dysfunctional family, ex convict, relationships ...
Place: italy
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: road movie, serious, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
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Duration: 94 min.
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26%
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Genre: Drama
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25%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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