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Thumb Tripping (1972)
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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, love, travel, motorcycle, truck, female nudity, motorcyclist, on the road, journey, truck driver, runaway, mother daughter relationship, couples, husband wife relationship, hitchhiker, weirdo, marriage, eccentricity, nudity, nude, urination, nudity (full frontal - brief), road
Time: year 1972
Place: california, san francisco, monterey california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, road movie and serious films with plots about female nudity, on the road, hippie, road trip, nudity, counterculture and hitchhiker mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Thumb Tripping: Five Easy Pieces (1970), How Much Further (2006), Zabriskie Point (1970), Nebraska (2013), Vibrator (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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95%
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
Place: ecuador, andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
Style: underground film
Plot: counterculture, erotica, group sex, hippie, gay subtext, college dropout, sex scene, drug, nudity, party, masturbation, sex ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Nebraska (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style: road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: aging, road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, elderly, on the road, old age, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.9
 968
Vibrator (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the ...
Style: road movie, serious, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: on the road, truck, self discovery, loneliness, destiny, friendship, alcohol abuse, misfit, female nudity, curses spells and rituals, self doubt, truck driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 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 ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
69%
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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 ⇓
69%
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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 ⇓
67%
 5.3
 688
R.P.M. (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, ...
Style: political
Plot: counterculture, juvenile delinquent, hippie, revolution, college, sexploitation, sociologist, sociology, protest, female nudity
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.7
 137
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, motel, police, hitchhiker, hobo, singer, diner, friendship, jail, hitchhiking, gas station ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.1
 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.3
 181K
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 ⇓
52%
 5.9
 3K
Psych-Out (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, lsd, deaf, drug, stoner, underground, acid, biker, mental disorder, commune, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.0
 344
The Baby Maker (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children. She accepts but finds that knowing the parents, and ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hippie, adoption, surrogate mother, psychedelia, parents, dilemma, orphan, love triangle, pregnancy, infidelity, baby, wedding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: beverly hills, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Rain People (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker.
Style: road movie, cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: road trip, swing, loneliness, psychiatry, women, student athlete, feminist, housewife, runaway, hitchhiker, pregnant woman, on the road ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 239
The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 95
'68 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: '68 covers exactly one year (January 1st through December 31st) in the lives of Zoltan Szabo and his family, Hungarian immigrants, working hard to make a life in San Francisco in 1968. The Szabos tries to adjust to the new country, changing ...
Style: independent film, soap opera
Plot: vietnam war, gay, love, exploitation, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, revolutionary war, lgbt, strong female character, journalist ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.0
 569
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 ⇓
47%
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.
Style: road movie, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, realistic ...
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 ⇓
46%
Roses Are for the Rich (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts ...
Plot: revenge, murder trial, doll, coal mine, cyanide
Place: birmingham alabama, appalachia, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Venice Beach (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A runaway tries to survive being homeless at Venice Beach, California.
Style: independent film
Plot: runaway, sex scene, flashback, robbery, female nudity, train, beach, nudity, telephone
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Hallucination Generation (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A juvenile is mad at his mom so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru's cult in Spain and turns on, tunes in, and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: hippie, counterculture, exploitation, lsd, drug, hallucination, robbery, rebellion
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Invisible Circus (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the ...
Style: sexy, emotional, touching, romantic, sentimental ...
Plot: suicide, secrets, death, teenage life, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, couples, on the road, haunted by the past, human nature, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Smoke and Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
Style: independent film
Plot: counterculture, voyeurism, orgy, hippie, marijuana, party, sex, female nudity, friend, swinger party, hooligan, drug ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Heat and Sunlight (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters.
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, psychological, serious ...
Plot: profanity, couples, infidelity, haunted by the past, obsession, dishonesty, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, nudity, photographer, broken mirror, strip club ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, san francisco, usa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.9
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Las Acacias (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's ...
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: delivery, on the road, hitchhiker, unlikely couple, introspection, human nature, hopes, truck, mother daughter relationship, baby, brother sister relationship, border crossing ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: argentina, paraguay, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Artist's Wife (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: painter, dementia, artist, marriage, fighting illness, male female relationship, lifestyle change, family in crisis, changing lives, artists' life, family relations, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
 527
Me and Will (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in ...
Style: road movie, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, bike, drug addiction, addiction, road trip, escape, profanity, friends, drug abuse, clinic, on the road ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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