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Deadhead Miles (1972)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
Style:
offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
Plot:
truck, trucker, truck driver, redneck, taxi, on the road, satire, friends, car chase, chase, chases and races, black market, partner, buddies, murderous pair, workplace situations, dog, ghost, police, friendship, journey, highway, driving, surrealism, passenger ...
Time:
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about friends, buddies, friendship, partner, disorder, on the road and lifestyle mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Deadhead Miles: Kicking the Dog (2009), Southbound Heist (2011), Backseat (2005), Next Stop for Charlie (2010), The Hustle (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Time:
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84%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Plot:
on the road, road trip, friends, buddies, partner, youth, obsessive quest, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, city life, coming of age ...
Time:
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Country: USA
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Charlie Murray is on one hell of a vacation. Financed by his aunt, Charlie plays private eye as he tracks his M.I.A. cousin Eric across six continents and multiple countries. Turns out Eric is on a quest to attend all of the world's biggest ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nothing goes right, adventurer, friendship, chase, on the road, disorder, buddies, cross country, customs, obsessive quest, culture clash, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
colombia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
gangster, partner, crime gone awry, chases and races, dishonesty, friends, race against time, disorder, cons and scams, society, friendship, buddies ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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568
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, partner, gangster, friends, buddies, youth, dishonesty, contests and competitions, workplace, friendship, siblings relations, school ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, car, naked woman, odd couple, partner, gangster, couples, friends, disorder, fall in love, chases and races, criminal heroes ...
Time:
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Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, wales
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, disorder, partner, desire for fame, dark humor, friends, unemployment, buddies, aviation, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, nasa ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, murder, chase, ambulance, paramedic, medical, truck, black, trucker, partner, underdog, buddies ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bobby blows all his college savings on a van and tries to get the girl of his dreams. It's a wild time with Bobby and his friends.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style:
humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, dark humor, buddies, lifestyle, society, friendship, down on your luck, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
seattle, los angeles, europe, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, canada
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal Spencer Ragusa have less than 24 hours to retrieve the body for burial in New Jersey.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
on the road, ambition, lifestyle, couples, buddies, society, discrimination, gambling, battle of the sexes, partner, downfall, rock ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
53%
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Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, corsica
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52%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, rise to the top, partner, disorder, desire for fame, ego clash, rivalry, nothing goes right, misfit, satire, cooking and food ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film
Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, culture clash, showbiz, social decay, buddies, society, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, buddies, showbiz, hollywood, partner, writer's life, desire for fame, rivalry, love, youth, screenwriter ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, independent film, horror comedy, cult classic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, talent agent, stand up comedian, supernatural being, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, friendship, mutation, satire, down on your luck, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy
Plot:
friendship, golf, self discovery, relationships, divorce, drug use, showbiz, nightlife, lifestyle, prostitute, buddies, legal action ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
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