Movies like Pickup on 101

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Pickup on 101 (1972)
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Pickup on 101 (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: homeless, train, police, motel, hitchhiker, friendship, female nudity, ambulance, singer, on the road, mechanic, car accident, hitchhiking, driving, jail, diner, punched in the face, gas station, car breakdown, pickup truck, hobo, truck, drifter, nude, guitar ...
Time: year 1972

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Most similar movies to Pickup on 101

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, road movie, independent film and touching films with plots about on the road, friendship, female nudity, hitchhiking, train, husband wife relationship and travel mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pickup on 101: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), The Doo Dah Man (2015), Thumb Tripping (1972), Road Movie (1973), The Subject Was Roses (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, road trip, on the road, racing, mechanic, character study, classic car, carsploitation, life philosophy, auto mechanic, hitchhiker, desert ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Doo Dah Man (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in 1980, The Doo Dah Man tells the story of JAKE, a 20 year old college student living in New Jersey who, after fighting with his absentee father, decides to run away from his life and hitch hike across the country. Along the way he is picked up ...
Style: road movie, touching, exciting, rough, captivating ...
Plot: intergenerational friendship, on the road, teenage boy, friendship, stealing a car, scam, teenage protagonist, father son relationship, on the run, young man, photographer, father figure ...
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Thumb Tripping (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: hippie, counterculture, hitchhiking, eccentricity, nudity, motorcyclist, love, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, truck driver, husband wife relationship, marriage ...
Time: year 1972
Place: monterey california, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.0
 177
Road Movie (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to ...
Style: road movie, independent film, crying
Plot: truck, trucker, passenger, sleeping, hitchhiker, labor, fight, abuse, highway, mining, sadness, insurance ...
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Subject Was Roses (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie, (Neal and Albertson). Once considered sickly and weak, he has now distinguished himself in the service and is ...
Plot: world war two, veteran, regret, world war, marriage, dysfunctional family, world war two veteran, conversation, poverty, abusive father, coming of age, unfaithful husband ...
Place: bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Return to Macon County (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: on the road, drag racing, classic car, car, auto racing, manhunt, redneck, waitress, car chase, friendship, chase, car accident ...
Time: year 1975, 1950s, 50s
Place: california, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Changes (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's the late sixties, a time of peace signs, free love and revolution; and Kent (Kent Lane DEFIANT, HOOPER) like others of his generation, is looking for a meaning to his life. Driving alone along the Big Sur, he flashes back to difficult ...
Style: independent film
Plot: generation gap, hitchhiking, cigarette smoking, beach, train, car accident, frustration, on the road, cemetery, mirror, driving, self discovery ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.2
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Scarecrow (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot: drifter, road trip, on the road, friendship, prison, attempted rape, character study, self discovery, violence, introspection, mental breakdown, car wash ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, california, denver colorado, detroit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Best Friends (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, road movie, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: erotica, voyeurism, voyeur, best friend, friends, friendship, female nudity, bare breasts, dancer, road trip, couples, psychopath ...
Time: 70s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Dream Catcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, self discovery, social misfits, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, oklahoma, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Man, Woman and Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A California professor (Martin Sheen), his wife (Blythe Danner) and his daughters make room for his orphaned illegitimate French son (Sebastian Dungan).
Style: independent film, realistic, uplifting, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: youth, professor, infidelity, love and romance, dishonesty, orphan, family relations, couples, love affair, family life, college, unfaithfulness ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.3
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Nomadland (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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 ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Shattered Spirits (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Martin Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
Style: spiritual, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: alcoholic, drinking, recovery, substance abuse, family relations, alcohol abuse, downfall, love and romance, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, family problems, couples ...
Time: 80s
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Desert Blue (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, black comedy ...
Plot: small town, friendship, desert, drinking, death, fire, fbi, suburbs, bomb, toxic, friends, coming of age ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested ...
Style: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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River of Grass (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gun shot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
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Plot: lovers on the run, summer, road trip, travel, fugitive, partner, friends, on the run, heist, chases and races, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 15K
Certain Women (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, ironic, disturbing, heartfelt ...
Plot: ranch, lesbian interest, loneliness, lesbian, flirting, dysfunctional relationship, feminist, marriage, lgbt, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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How Much Further (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet ...
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, scenic, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, countryside, journey, self discovery, strike, hopes, travel, hitchhiking, student, journalist, survival, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: homeless, heroic mission, righting the wronged, power relations, campaign, injustice, state affairs, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, politics, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c.
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Katie Says Goodbye (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In order to best save the necessary funds to leave her desolate town and start anew, Katie prostitutes herself to a handful of regulars that frequent the diner she waitresses at. As she draws near to saving the funds she believes her new life ...
Style: captivating, touching, sexy, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: poverty, love at first sight, prostitution, waitress, working class, sex in car, single mother, employer employee relationship, female nudity, fired from the job, love, hitchhiking ...
Place: arizona, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hot Rod (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drag-racer enters a local championship race. However, he runs up against the town boss, a corrupt sheriff who has already made arrangements to ensure that his own son wins the race.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: drag racing, car, auto racing, classic car, carsploitation, car race, woman driver, driving, woman, corruption, police, radio dj ...
Time: 70s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Digging to China (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Harriet, a ten-year old girl, lives together with her big sister and her alcoholic mother out in the countryside. The family runs a motel. Harriet is different from the others, as she owns a great creativity and has nobody to play with. Her infinite ...
Style: touching, intellectual, independent film, crying, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, coming of age, youth, waterfall, sister, motel, age-gap relationship, adolescence, autism, childhood, child, countryside ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: canada, california, pacific ocean, san diego california, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.5
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Pick-up (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sexy hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get more than they bargained for when they hitch a ride with groovy hippie dude Chuck in his nifty mobile bus home. The trio get lost in the Florida Everglades following a fierce rain storm and embark on a ...
Style: cult classic, surreal, grindhouse, mind bending, independent film ...
Plot: hippie, sex, female nudity, counterculture, hitchhiking, nudity, redneck, motor home, truck, marijuana, road trip, murder ...
Time: 70s
Place: florida, everglades
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Bombón: El Perro (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan "Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot: dog, unemployment, on the road, love and romance, dog training, bittersweet, countryside, friends, self discovery, friendship, labor, road trip ...
Place: argentina, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.7
 13K
Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style: road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.4
 595
Stone Pillow (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot: homeless shelter, homeless, homelessness, poverty, social worker, woman in danger, hobo, survival, friendship, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Kings of the Road (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style: road movie, contemplative, black and white, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: on the road, travel, male pubic hair, spirituality, drifter, past, filmmaking, truck, summer, existentialism, trucker, realism ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, german democratic republic, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A nameless young character travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to daily mundane activities.
Style: independent film
Plot: voyeurism, voyeur, art, minimal dialogue, filling station, glacier, train station, lake, solitude, subway, boredom, auto repair ...
Place: los angeles, san francisco, austin texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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