Movies like End of the Line 1987

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End of the Line (1987)
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End of the Line (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Style: political, independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, witty
Plot: train, railway, heroes, kidnapping, politics, friends, on the road, human spirit, profanity, rebellion, fighting the system, self discovery, society, aging, small town, countryside, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, human nature, bittersweet, buddies, small town life, hopes, save the day ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, arkansas, chicago
Keyword: americana, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and semi serious films with plots about friendship, friends, love and romance, hopes, self discovery, family relations and couples mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like End of the Line: Breaking the Rules (1992), Jersey Girl (1992), She's Having a Baby (1988), The Majestic (2001), Amar Akbar & Tony (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Breaking the Rules (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Style: feel good, sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: cancer, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, tragic hero, unfulfillment, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, california
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Jersey Girl (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.
Style: sentimental, romantic, touching, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love, working class, diner, family life, small town life, friendship, witness protection, opposites attract, yuppie, love and romance, stalking, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york
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78%
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, emotional, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, parenthood, baby, marriage, self discovery, midlife crisis, wedding, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, argument, dream, aspiring writer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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77%
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The Majestic (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style: feel good, sentimental, inspirational, touching, period piece ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, amnesia, happy ending, justice, life philosophy, hollywood, memory loss, memory, parents and children ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
Plot: small town life, parents and children, memory loss, hopes, self discovery, friends, haunted by the past, sexual content, homecoming, small town, family relations, flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona, The Lords of Flatbush is a low budget film starring Perry King, Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone (who also wrote additional dialog). Set in the late 1950s, the coming-of-age story follows four ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, intense, serious ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, adolescence, youth, human nature, friends, gang, self discovery, goofy hero, parents and children, buddies, crime gone awry ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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63%
The Buddy System (1984)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, parents and children, infidelity, love and romance, couples, single parent, family relations, self discovery, buddies, school, friendship, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into ...
Style: touching, sweet, sincere, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, character study, young lovers, unwanted pregnancy, self discovery, teenage life, love story, bowling, friendship between men, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Going All the Way (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, love, youth, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, adolescence vs adulthood, small town life, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1997, 50s, year 1954
Place: indiana, indianapolis indiana, usa, chicago
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55%
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Good Luck (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bernard "Bern" Lemly (Gregory Hines) is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio) is stewing after recently losing his sight. The ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, partner, hostage, friends, disability, ambition, misfit, human spirit, hopes, buddies, self discovery ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: righting the wronged, rivalry, save the day, fighting the system, culture clash, screwball, heroes, society, good versus evil, buddies, friendship, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
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The Trip (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, political, semi serious ...
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Time: 70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: holiday, hospital, gambling, bingo, marriage, terminal illness, bittersweet, strong female presence, best friend, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
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46%
30 Years to Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together during the same year. Each one looks inside themselves to see where has my life gone and what ...
Style: witty, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, love and romance, human nature, midlife crisis, society, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, buddies, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Eversmile, New Jersey (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, indifference - and established antediluvian ...
Style: humorous, realistic, offbeat, semi serious
Plot: motorcycle, love, doctor, partner, human nature, social relations, love and romance, friends, missing person, fall in love, disorder, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: argentina, latin america, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Housekeeping (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style: sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
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Tickets (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, anthology ...
Plot: train, self discovery, couple relations, on the road, society, couples, social differences, railway, soccer, migration, multiple storylines, football ...
Time: 90s, year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, scotland, europe
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43%
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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42%
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Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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41%
The Living Wake (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: “The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot: nothing goes right, friends, odd couple, lifestyle, dark humor, partner, performer's life, misfit partners, hopes, daydreamer, social relations, last wish ...
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41%
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Stay Cool (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, homecoming, high school life, hometown, disorder, prom, friends, teenage life, artists and showbiz, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Blue Diner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, starting over, self discovery, estrangement, hopes, forbidden love, social decay, relationship vs career, betrayal, society, parents and children, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Changing Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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