Movies like Bye Bye Blue Bird

If you like "Bye Bye Blue Bird" you are looking for road movie movies about / with road trip, conquering, female bonding, friendship, fisherman, estranged daughter and drinking themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in Denmark or Faroe Islands.
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Bye Bye Blue Bird (1999)
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Bye Bye Blue Bird (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Faroe Islands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Recalling the works of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, this Danish road movie concerns a pair of women, Rannva and Barba, who return after a seven-year absence to their native Faroes Islands, a self-governing province of Denmark near Iceland. Dressed in loud attire and speaking with big-city accents, they stand out considerably from the locals. As they travel through the islands, they meet a variety of eccentric figures and colorful characters, including their families. Bye Bye Bluebird was screened at the 1999 Haugesund Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Allrovi
Style: road movie
Plot: road trip, conquering, female bonding, friendship, fisherman, estranged daughter, drinking, best friend, airplane, wedding, hospital, father daughter relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, hitchhiking, single parent, secret, drinking alcohol, polaroid, polaroid camera, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out road movie, humorous, realistic and semi serious films with plots about road trip, friendship, on the road, mother daughter relationship, family relations, best friend and friends mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Bye Bye Blue Bird: Ana (2020), Burn Burn Burn (2015), She's In Portland (2020), Amerikana (2001), Donkeys (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ana (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.
Style: sincere, realistic, humorous, captivating, road movie
Plot: road trip, friendship, journey, illegal gambling, save the day, bankruptcy, father daughter relationship, girl, gas station, natural disaster, 11 year old girl, bare chested male ...
Place: puerto rico
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95%
Burn Burn Burn (2015)
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 of friend, road trip, friendship, nature, funeral, terminal illness, cancer, ashes, woman, on the road, hitchhiker, secret ...
Place: scotland
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92%
She's In Portland (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find ...
Style: road movie, satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, travel, satire, buddy, self discovery, introspection, friends, social problems, crisis of conscience, depression, best friend ...
Place: washington d.c., california, san francisco, portland oregon
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84%
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Amerikana (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Following the Dogma rules does not make this film hard to watch... In the end, it is a great story and shows that Merendino can be a mature filmmaker. It's about two guys a Vespa and a trip from South Dakota to Los Angeles. It's funny, ...
Style: road movie, independent film, underground film
Plot: dogme 95, dogma, self discovery, unhappiness, friendship, road trip, friendship between men
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Donkeys (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what ...
Style: humorous, psychological, sincere, light, dark comedy ...
Plot: friendship, death of father, father daughter relationship, single mother, terminal illness, british, father daughter estrangement, working class, mother daughter relationship, friendship between men, mother son relationship, girl man relationship ...
Place: scotland
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72%
A Jar Full of Life (2018)
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, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, death of brother, road trip, mother daughter relationship, hitchhiker, family relations, last wish, society, monkey, car, loss of brother, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hamburg germany, antarctica
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71%
Boys on the Side (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: lesbian, aids, friendship, women, road trip, pregnancy, gay, hiv, lgbtq, female friendship, on the road, female bonding ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, san diego california, tucson arizona, pakistan, los angeles ...
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70%
The Wedding Waltz (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx ...
Style: road movie
Plot: road trip, friendship, birth, wedding party, rural setting, male female relationship, drinking alcohol, husband wife relationship, friend, hospital, male bonding, marriage ...
Place: finland
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65%
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Bonneville (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, road movie ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, family relations, parents and children, elderly, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, promise, road trip, female leader, female bonding, hitchhiker ...
Time: year 2006
Place: idaho, utah, nevada, california, usa ...
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65%
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Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, friendship, loneliness, on the road, self discovery, human nature, starting over, single mother, family problems, single parent, love and romance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: california, arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, south carolina ...
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64%
Tour de Force (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany
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62%
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Detours (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida for her dream job. She drives south with her widowed dad, her mom's ashes in a coffee can, and a GPS with a mind of its own.
Style: road movie, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, infidelity, one night stand, love, father daughter relationship, middle age romance, marriage, extramarital affair, highway, highway travel, mother daughter relationship, on the road ...
Place: florida, atlantic ocean, new york
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60%
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Aaltra (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white ...
Plot: on the road, disability, friendship, hospital, dark humor, misfit, physical disability, life is a bitch, escapades, money, loser, farmer ...
Time: year 2004
Place: finland, belgium, europe, helsinki finland
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58%
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Half a Person (2007)
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.
Style: independent film
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbt teen, lgbtq, road trip, best friend, friendship, friends who hate each other, gay man has sex with a woman, on the road, homosexual, coming of age
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, ontario canada
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56%
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Pink Lightning (1991)
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: coming of age, teenage girl, road trip, friendship, engagement, small town, female friendship, female protagonist, best friend, marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 1950s
Place: california
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The Most Beautiful Day (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The quirky, overambitious pianist Andi (33) and the more laid back and relaxed Benno (36) have just one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide after some trouble at the hospice, to have the most awesome day before its ...
Style: sweet, psychological, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: road trip, narcolepsy, friendship, last wish, disorder, tragedy, life philosophy, patient, odd couple, monkey, coach, bare chested male ...
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50%
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style: light, road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, on the road, mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, middle east, las vegas
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49%
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Some Secrets (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ovdovělá matka, dvě dospělé, tápající dcery, snad až příliš hodný zeť, temperamentní babička a malý vnuk - tihle všichni se nasoukají do dvou aut a vyrazí z Rakovníka na Slovensko, aby vyhověli otcovu poslednímu přání. ...
Style: road movie
Plot: bare chested male, pastor, husband wife relationship, secret, road trip, loss of father, priest, mother daughter relationship, death of father, female protagonist, car accident, little boy ...
Place: slovakia, czech republic
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49%
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Due Date (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey ...
Style: road movie, funny, buddy comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: road trip, weed, hitchhiker, getting home, buddy, stupidity, marijuana, screwball, odd couple, bonding, bromance, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, dallas texas, birmingham alabama, los angeles, texas ...
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Heartbreak Hotel (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two very different women, both in their 40s with grown-up children, are ready to go on with their lives and find love again.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, clever
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, wedding, best friend, parents and children, couples, single parent, lifestyle, couple relations, sexual relations, nightlife, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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48%
Crash Test Aglaé (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. ...
Style: road movie, humorous, tense, feel good, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, coworker, female protagonist, coworker relationship, worker, co worker co worker relationship, strong female presence, society, job, work abroad, family relations, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2017
Place: india, switzerland, kazakhstan, poland
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48%
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Full Grown Men (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: amusement park, friends, family relations, couples, moral dilemma, buddies, introspection, youth, couple relations, on the road, fish out of water, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
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47%
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Mr. Pig (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. After smuggling in the hog, his estranged daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and ...
Style: road movie, sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: road trip, human animal relationship, friendship, pets, animal human communication, social problems, human relationship, black, foreclosure, estranged daughter, sick father, love
Place: mexico, indiana
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46%
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Second Hand Wedding (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A small film with a big heart, SECOND HAND WEDDING is a bittersweet dramatic comedy set in the present, in a time when trademe and e-bay threaten the primeval urge for a firsthand crack at the second-hand. Jill keeps the dream alive until she is ...
Plot: teenage crush, puppy, car, mechanic, reconciliation, secret, mother daughter relationship, wedding, singer
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45%
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style: road movie, depressing, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, disability, abandoned by father, coming of age, writers, friendship, tragedy, justice, loneliness, depression, redemption, mentor ...
Place: seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
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43%
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Getting Home (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town.
Style: road movie, serious, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: working class, dealing with death, dark humor, passenger, truck driver, migrant worker, lower class, suicide attempt, road trip, drinking, drinking alcohol, asian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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42%
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The Easy Life (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer.
Style: road movie, dark comedy, neorealism, black and white, cerebral ...
Plot: on the road, summer, hedonism, seaside, friendship, beach, underdog, journey, amor, trippy, lgbt, road trip ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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42%
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Grandma (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her ...
Style: road movie, suspense, depressing, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, abortion, lesbian, pregnancy, aging, lgbtq, grandparent grandchild relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, writers, friendship, gay, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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39%
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Bombay Dreams (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ebba and her friend Camilla go looking for her mother in India.
Audience: teens
Plot: adoptive mother, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, friendship, male nudity, teenage boy, school, teenager, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, friend ...
Place: stockholm sweden, mumbai india, bombay india, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Leaving Normal (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A female buddy story in which Meg Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, female protagonist, buddy, journey, waking up, girl power, truck driver, waitress, female friendship, couple relations, human nature ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: alaska, wyoming, portland oregon, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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