Movies like The Hard Road
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The Hard Road (1973)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?
Style:
psychedelic, psychotronic, tragic ending, cult film
Plot:
drug addiction, drugs, teenage pregnancy, venereal disease, cautionary tale, sex, teenager, junkie, drug addict, teenage sex, pregnancy, female nudity, abusive relationship, hippie, addiction, teenage girl, hollywood, childbirth, heroin, pregnant teenager, casual sex, street life, new job, female protagonist, teenage sexuality ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california
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Most similar movies to The Hard Road
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, cult film, serious and melancholic films with plots about drugs, drug addiction, drug abuse, sex, addiction, coming of age and teenager mostly in Drama, Adventure and Biography genres. Some movies like The Hard Road: V.D. (1961), Thirteen (2003), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Trainspotting (1996), The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
Plot:
syphilis, venereal disease, high school, youth, coach, teenager, casual sex, promiscuity, premarital sex, deception, female rivalry, sexual intercourse ...
Place:
california, southern california
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drugs, heroin, insanity, drug addiction, mental illness, junkie, hallucination, drug abuse, depression, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, stylized, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drugs, existentialism, dark humor, british, junkie, drug abuse, counterculture, life is a bitch, surrealism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug addict, drugs, death of pet, heroin, heroin addict, drug use, loneliness, life philosophy, redemption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, non-linear ...
Plot:
drugs, lsd, hallucination, hippie, drug abuse, self discovery, drug addiction, cult, counterculture, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, tokyo, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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:
sad, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hippie, drugs, deaf, counterculture, lsd, mental disorder, biker, rock and roll, missing person, fish out of water, friends, fugitives ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Style:
psychedelic, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drugs, marijuana, hippie, high school, prostitute, drug addiction, lsd, runaway, cocaine, heroin, rape, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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80K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, virginity, innocence lost, drugs, aids, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, teenager, sexual promiscuity, street kid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, clever, cerebral, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, sex, girl gang, drug addiction, mentor, loneliness, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, illegal drugs, family conflict, drug abuse, lsd, surgeon, group therapy, teenage girl, drug addict, frustration, drug addiction, sister sister relationship ...
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67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style:
stylized, sexy, sexual, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, porn industry, drugs, cocaine, disco, addiction, multiple storylines, drug addiction, voyeurism, drug abuse, showbiz, adultery ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two year old daughter in tow.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, rough, captivating, sentimental
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, heroin addict, surprise party, addiction, junkie, woman, mission, mental illness, family relations, family problems ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style:
thought provoking, gloomy, road movie, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
drugs, addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, existentialism, dark humor, heroin, redemption, writers, hospital, drug addict, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago illinois, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of under-age girls working in prostitution. ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, street life, teenage girl, teenager, innocence, pimp, social issues, unhappiness, runaway, life lesson, innocent ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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, sex orgy, politics, rebellion, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, parents and children, twentysomething life, on the road ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, italy, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dennis Hopper is a hard-drinking truck driver who loses control of his truck under the influence and slams it into a busload of screaming children. After serving his five year jail sentence, Hopper finds his daughter, Cebe (Linda Manz), the love of ...
Style:
depressing, controversial, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
punk rock, drug abuse, coming of age, alcoholic father, teenager, club, female psychopath, anarchist, subculture, drug addiction, hunting, women ...
Time:
70s
Place:
canada
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47%
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:
psychedelic, psychotronic
Plot:
hippie, exploitation, lsd, counterculture, hallucination, drugs, rebellion, robbery
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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112K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style:
road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hippie, road trip, motorcycle, friendship, on the road, biker, marijuana, existentialism, rock music, drugs, rebelliousness, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new orleans, los angeles, california, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
608
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with ...
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
drugs, surrealism, drug addiction, art, hippie, conspiracy, counterculture, nurse, hallucination, chauffeur, masturbation, sex ...
Place:
new york, paris france, france, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl turns to prostitution to support her baby and encounters a treacherous underworld of pimps, hookers and johns while doing her best to maintain her hopes and dignity.
Plot:
runaway, record producer, diner, oral sex, star wars, prostitute, hotel room, sex, violence, limousine, halloween, death ...
Place:
los angeles, seattle, malibu california
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, emotional, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, surreal, controversial, campy ...
Plot:
welfare, pregnancy, masturbation, male nudity, male prostitute, drug addict, drugs, infidelity, gay, exploitation, art, coming of age ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, redemption, introspection, drug abuse, alcoholic, drugs, yuppie, tragedy, character study, crime gone awry, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey, philadelphia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style:
serious, rough, bleak, disturbing, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, heroin, drugs, downfall, drug addict, drug overdose, drug abuse, junkie, teenage life, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot:
father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, teenage girl, war veteran, father daughter incest, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, suspense, women ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, montana
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
california, usa
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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36%
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