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Billboard (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Casey devises a plan to help his failing radio station, a billboard sitting contest.
Style:
satirical, offbeat, absurd, tension, dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
radio station, publicity stunt, small town, media manipulation, underdog, media satire, financial crisis, community, satire, blue collar, reality competition, survival game, friendship, isolation, ambush, entrepreneur, inheritance, radio, contest, legacy, billboard, weirdo, eccentric, stakeout
Time:
contemporary
Place:
pennsylvania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, tension, realistic and dark comedy films with plots about small town, friendship, isolation, community, coming of age, satire and intimate mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Billboard: The Flamingo Rising (2001), Hot Rod (1979), Lost Soulz (2023), 8 Slices (2019), Americana (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, southern gothic
Plot:
rivalry, funeral home, small town, feud, publicity stunt, pride, community, small business, escalation, grief, satire, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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347
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:
fast paced, tension, period piece, retro, heroic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rapper leaves everything behind and embarks on an odyssey of self discovery, music, and friendship in the heart of Texas.
Style:
emotional, independent film, realistic, soulful, moody
Plot:
self discovery, journey, rap, hip hop, coming of age, identity, aspiration, transformation, friendship, youth, perseverance, underdog ...
Place:
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Similarity:
49%
117
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A new hire joins a small town pizza restaurant just as the business fails and its employees question the "American Dream."
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
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340
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
Style:
independent film, existential, sentimental, period piece, allegory
Plot:
loner, small town, war veteran, conflict, vietnam war, nostalgia, countryside, melancholy, loneliness, veteran, memory, character study ...
Time:
year 1981, 70s
Place:
kansas
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On the eve of the transition from film to digital, the longtime denizens of a camera store confront their personal issues in this darkly comic story.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, reflective, poignant, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
photograph, store, nostalgia, adaptation, small business, bittersweet, intimate, midlife crisis, loss, legacy, identity crisis, photographer ...
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121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than ...
Style:
emotional, tension, melancholic, independent film, tragic
Plot:
poverty, family drama, dysfunctional family, small town, survival, love triangle, domestic drama, trailer park, motherhood, resilience, working class, character study ...
Time:
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Place:
maine
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest ...
Style:
erotic, dark, tense, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
island, isolation, sex scene, selfishness, character study, deception, betrayal, moral ambiguity, intimate, greed, isolated community, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.
Style:
dark comedy, offbeat, absurd, emotional, black humor
Plot:
debt, mortality, wedding, mourning, social commentary, religion, satire, grief, mature, bittersweet, ethical dilemma, small business ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, small town, danger, alien encounter, death, tragedy, delusion, manipulation, emotional manipulation, exploitation, character study, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
765
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a friend group is torn apart by betrayal, they decide to settle their differences in the most old school of ways. Leaving their modern home of Los Angeles, they embark on a bizarre adventure that seemingly takes them back in time across an ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, captivating, tension, intense ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, duel, love affair, betrayal, relationship problems, friends, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, cocaine ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico, indiana
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
drug dealer, friendship, small town, family relations, addiction, character study, drug dealing, drug trade, city life, penance, illegal drugs, drug use ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
west virginia, appalachia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, tense, suspense, historical drama, independent film
Plot:
man versus nature, grizzly bear, isolation, danger, wilderness, survival, predator, trauma, panic, investigation, ranger, national park ...
Time:
60s
Place:
montana
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
farm, african american, aging, best friend, hopes, society, underdog, ambition, rivalry, fighting the system, human spirit, social relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, talky, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
world war two, small town, friendship, secrets, mentor, manipulation, love story, adolescence, crime gone awry, family relations, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, realistic, tension, political
Plot:
strike, working class, friendship, protest, class struggle, blue collar, poverty, unemployment, social realism, small town, solidarity, male friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, entertaining, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, satire, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, desire for fame, ex boyfriend, lifestyle, ambitious woman, ambition, celebrity, family life, aspiration, escapades ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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110
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, satirical, period piece, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, filmmaking, festival, film industry, deadpan, behind the scenes, small town, film producer, producer, director, filmmaker, improv ...
Time:
70s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, scotland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, offbeat, suspense, dark comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Three women struggle in their social and cultural environments and face unforeseeable crises. Based on true events.
Style:
serious, realistic, tension, art house, melancholic
Plot:
virginity, women, honor, crisis, social realism, cultural conflict, social commentary, patriarchy, gender roles, shame, adolescence, branding iron ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
33%
222
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Interviews in the Michael Moore/"Roger and Me" tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town's once-prosperous factory, reduced to the ...
Style:
independent film, bad ending, talky, harsh, absurd ...
Plot:
small town, interview, social commentary, class conflict, economic inequality, blue collar, poverty, unemployment, anger, resilience, bittersweet, political satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
cuba, texas, canada
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A rock-climbing geologist who finds an unexpected friendship in the high desert.
Style:
contemplative, independent film, art house
Plot:
friendship, rock climbing, isolation, geology, solitude, self discovery, character study, loneliness, tenderness, intimate, slow burn, male friendship ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Chilli Chicken follows the lives of five Northeastern boys working at a Chinese restaurant. Based on true events, this film is written and directed by Prateek Prajosh. The cast includes BV Shrunga (known for "19.20.21"), Manipur actor ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tension, suspense, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
chinese restaurant, restaurant, social commentary, tragedy, friendship, slice of life, class struggle, discrimination, ambition, moral ambiguity, small town, coming of age ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A school takes on a troublesome boy from juvenile hall, in order to try to help him settle back in to normal life. But everything seems to be mounted against him, including a drunken mother.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
troubled youth, family drama, rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency, second chance, underdog, redemption, teacher student relationship, character study, social realism, parents, mentor ...
Time:
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Similarity:
32%
728
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures, sharing with his fellow detainees the meaning of ...
Style:
dark comedy, buddy comedy, satirical, multicultural, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
australia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tension, suspense, psychotronic
Plot:
mass hysteria, panic, radio, deception, fear, anxiety, social commentary, realism, american history, biopic, live performance, dialogue ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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