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Texas Lightning (1981)
286
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
exploitation, musician, hicksploitation, love, sex, dog, dancing, rape, police officer, hunting, motorcycle, truck, female nudity, sex scene, male nudity, arm wrestling, truck driver, holiday, gang rape, beer, rabbit, telephone call, father son relationship, motel, driving ...
Place:
austin texas, texas
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Most similar movies to Texas Lightning
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, humorous and grindhouse films with plots about female nudity, truck, exploitation, bar, kiss, nude and telephone call mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Texas Lightning: Moonshine County Express (1977), Preacherman (1971), Summer School (1978), Last Night at the Alamo (1983), Truck Stop Women (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film
Plot:
hicksploitation, carsploitation, redneck, car chase, woman with a gun, small community, daughter, sheriff, preacher, ford mustang, cemetery, murder ...
Place:
southern usa, kentucky
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, anti religion
Plot:
preacher, con man, redneck, female nudity, charlatan, backwoods, exploitation, bartender, fake, scam, farm, evangelist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
north carolina, southern usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Anita is the new girl at school. When Steve gets one look at the voluptuous transfer, it sets his girlfriend Donna into a tailspin and she'll stop at nothing to make sure these two never unite.
Style:
independent film, grindhouse
Plot:
beach, van, rape, gang rape, party, female nudity, sexual humor, exploitation, marijuana, skateboard, summer, pond ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. It has to be closed down for development reasons but one of the regular customers, Cowboy, seems to have friends in high places.
Style:
indie film, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
friendship, working class, against the odds, nightlife, friends, lifestyle, telephone call, friend, husband wife relationship, politician, motel, driving ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, sexual, independent film, sexy ...
Plot:
truck, public nudity, hitchhiking, female nudity, nudity, redneck, exploitation, redheaded woman, woman with a gun, bare breasts, sex, gangster ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crazed military explosives expert heads for Los Angeles with an RV full of explosives, intending to blow up a rock festival and kill all the "hippies". An army officer is sent to stop him.
Style:
sexploitation film
Plot:
female nudity, outdoor sex, stripper, nudity, truck, trucker, hippie, sex, telephone call, beer, sexploitation, exploitation ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young man takes up truck-driving to investigate his trucker father's suspicious death.
Style:
suspense, sexy, independent film, noir
Plot:
trucker, truck, revenge, investigation, road trip, blue collar, mysterious death, father son relationship, male protagonist, family tragedy, corruption, isolation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Angel (William Smith), an outlaw biker, sells out his gang by exposing their wild conquests to Like magazine for $10,000. With his photo on the cover, Angel skips town and tries to start over with help from sheep rancher Dan Felton (Dan Kemp). An ...
Style:
independent film, psychotronic
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, biker gang, bike, exploitation, gang, motorcycle gang, on the run, rape, beach, chicken, train ...
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
hillbilly, redneck, heiress, bartender, inheritance, deep south, mafia, driving, pickup truck, dancing, female protagonist, telephone call ...
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.
Style:
cult classic, independent film, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female nudity, van, disco, amusement park, carsploitation, sex, bare chested male, beach, sandwich, jail, dancing, pig ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke (Jerry Reed) and his visiting friend, Rane (Peter Fonda), put the brakes on the bad guys by taking the law into their own ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
trucker, bar fight, hitchhiker, trucking, car chase, waitress, vigilante, speed, vigilante justice, canuxploitation, friendship, on the road ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in ...
Style:
psychological, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
motorcycle, biker, biker gang, bike, swing, motorcycle gang, gang, bare chested male, exploitation, naked woman, reporter, outlaw ...
Time:
60s
Place:
baltimore, new york, usa, arizona
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, experimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
hustler, gay, male prostitute, nudity, lgbtq, sadomasochism, bare chested male, nude dance, male nudity, sex, erotica, masturbation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.
Style:
southern gothic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, small town, hicksploitation, exploitation, diner, lovers on the run, criminal, rock and roll, young couple, suburbs, classic car, car ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place:
southern usa, georgia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Captain Shank is an outcast officer and gets dishonorably discharged. He tries to get back on his feet, but his reputation keeps following him around ruining everything. When he meets some bikers he gets caught up in a life he tries desperately to ...
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, biker gang, bike, escape, rape, police, female nudity, nudity, fired from the job, airplane, newspaper ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This enjoyably goofy'n'duffy piece of 70's drive-in fluff centers on a six woman outlaw gang who prey on hapless backwoods motorists. The gals are owned and trained by the amiable, scruffy, pleasantly mellow Manson-like Benson (shaggy ...
Style:
independent film, erotic, sexy, road movie
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, hitchhiker, exploitation, bare breasts, marijuana, driver, taxi, stoner, male rape victim, female on male rape, car theft ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie, independent film
Plot:
biker, skinny dipping, exploitation, biker gang, bike, motorcycle, murder, revenge, iconoclastic, woman with a gun, nightmare, beer ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, independent film
Plot:
road trip, friendship, on the road, robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, armed robbery, chase, ambush, police officer, caper, assault ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The new guy (James Spader) in a Los Angeles high school does some singing and fights a hotshot (Paul Mones) over a disco dancer (Kim Richards).
Style:
cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, gang, male objectification, teenage boy, school, dancing, sex, coming of age, youth, street gang, violence, exploitation ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, biker gang, bartender, redneck, carsploitation, bike, motorcycle gang, smuggler, photography, outlaw biker, sheriff ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question whether he has a deeper calling.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
religion, problem, religious faith, faith, prostitute, gas station, road trip, voice over narration, bare chested male, fishing, community, golf ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
cowboy, friendship, chase, gunfight, horse, missing person, outlaw gang, happy ending, buddy, odd couple, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, arizona, new mexico, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Road movie about two brothers who drive to Texas to find out the truth behind their parents.
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, emotional, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, adoption, family problems, siblings relations, on the road, brother brother conflict, road trip, family secret, father son relationship, secret, sibling rivalry, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, colorado
Similarity:
20%
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537
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, stylized, offbeat ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, truck driver, psychic, gambling, friendship, on the road, drag queen, stripper, reunited friends, partner, best friend, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, crying
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
nudity, college graduate, post college, college, friendship, old friend, slacker, flirting, male friendship, love and romance, youth, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south pole
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Style:
sexy, road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
exploitation, woman with a gun, nudity, gangster, crime spree, violence, car chase, kidnapping, male nudity, outlaw, love, car ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
california, texas, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
butterfly, mine, bar fight, pickup truck, thunderstorm, past, hitchhiking, jail cell, bird, motorcycle, lizard, actor ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely--but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction…Double ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, mumblecore, light, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
waitress, sexploitation, girl power, job interview, fund raising, family business, female friendship, attempted robbery, husband wife relationship, friendship, flirting, professor ...
Time:
year 2007, 2010s
Place:
texas, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current number one star of the team. Karen proves herself a feisty ...
Style:
sex comedy, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexy ...
Plot:
exploitation, erotica, night, roller derby, female athlete, profanity, sexual content, sport team, supernatural romance, factory, working class, against the odds ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
19%
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