Movies like The FJ Holden

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The FJ Holden (1977)
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The FJ Holden (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer) and the screen debut of future star Sigrid Thornton. THE FJ HOLDEN forged a strong connection with 70s mainstream youth audiences and today
Style: road movie, independent film, cult film
Plot: carsploitation, car, teenage girl, gambling, police, party, female nudity, sex scene, blonde, car race, restaurant, boy, security guard, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, city, waiter, beer, two brothers, mirror, brother sister relationship, two friends, father son relationship, night, 18 year old ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about apology, night, cigarette smoking, opening a door, lying on bed, man with glasses and telephone mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres. Some movies like The FJ Holden: Fast Talking (1984), Heatwave (1982), Annie's Coming Out (1984), Wedding in White (1972), Goin' Down the Road (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fast Talking (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: motorcycle, con artists, teenage boy, school expulsion, troubled teen, stealing a car, running from police, ex convict, corporal punishment, teacher student relationship, school principal, drug dealing ...
Place: australia
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95%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is ...
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: disability, voice over narration, assassination attempt, dog, countdown, doctor, court, lawyer, young couple, boy, man with glasses, courtroom ...
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
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61%
Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
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59%
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Running on Empty (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racing for his girl, his money and his life. Through racing, sex, nightclubs and small road trips the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: car, love triangle, car chase, carsploitation, automobile, speed, racing, gangster, wooing, factory, love and romance, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: photograph, family abandonment, husband wife relationship, separation, bare chested male, young boy, tram, care, queen elizabeth ii, blue collar, sadness, only child ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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High Tide (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, biting, touching ...
Plot: woman, women, youth, surfing, ocean, car trouble, life is a bitch, redemption, social misfits, unfulfillment, family relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: australia, new south wales
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42%
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The Handyman (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles ...
Plot: two brothers, boy, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, sandwich, adultery, golf club, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, singing, telephone call, roommate ...
Time: year 1980
Place: montreal
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40%
Midnight Dancer (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: blonde, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, nightclub, dance, job, dancer
Time: 60s
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: redemption, coming of age, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hotel Sorrento (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: beach, sibling relationship, couples, writers, seaside town, family reunited, love triangle, family secret, drowning, youth, elderly, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, london, england, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns. Rita, Sue And Bob Too was adapted by Andrea Dunbar from two of her own controversial plays. Rita (Siobhan ...
Style: independent film, sex comedy, avant garde, cult classic, sexy ...
Plot: married man, sexual relations, sexual promiscuity, infidelity, schoolgirl, kitchen sink realism, affair, working class, sex with teenager, husband wife relationship, friendship between girls, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Erskineville Kings (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Barky, 25, lost soul, left home two years ago to escape his abusive father leaving behind everything in the world that was important to him; now that his father's dead, he thinks it's safe to come home.
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: bad father, escape, father, belt whipping, brother brother conflict, family conflict, bare chested male, friendship, friend, father son relationship, beer, drinking ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Belgica (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sexy
Plot: sex scene, baby, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, car, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, money, infidelity, nude, alcohol abuse, siblings, smoking ...
Time: year 2016
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Captain Johnno (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
Style: children's story
Plot: coming of age, youth, deaf, young boy, physical disability, town, deaf child, man with glasses, teaching, priest, disability, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Lives We Lead (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, parenthood, brother brother relationship, deception, father son relationship, betrayal, parents and children, gay, lgbt, existential crisis, coming of age ...
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32%
Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: credit card, bare chested male, fiance fiancee relationship, breaking the law, 30 year old, driving, friend, african american, elderly woman, car, pianist, cigarette smoking ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Squizzy Taylor (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
Style: crying, period piece, independent film
Plot: death of killer, breaking the law, death of protagonist, short man, urban setting, man with glasses, blond, crime victim, accountant, world war one veteran, unhappy ending, mirror ...
Time: year 1982, 1910s, 1920s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, revenge, carsploitation, car, murder, rape, vigilante, trucker, automobile, redneck, car chase, car crash ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
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30%
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My First Wife (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: bare chested male, death of father, hospital, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, adultery, mother daughter relationship, sick father, bare breasts, psychiatrist, train, marital strife ...
Time: year 1984
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Petersen (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
Plot: exploitation, exodus, university, womanizer, jealous husband, social relations, love triangle, teachers and students, workplace romance, ambition, forbidden love, love and romance ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Crown Jewels (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence ...
Style: touching, captivating, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, dead brother, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, police, nordic, nymphet, young adult, rich kid, butt, alchemy ...
Place: moscow russia, scandinavia, russia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.4
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52 Tuesdays (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, rough ...
Plot: teenage girl, gender, coming of age, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, transgender, lgbtq, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, san francisco, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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