Movies like Big City Blues

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Big City Blues (1997)
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Big City Blues (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A collection of characters threaten to cross paths, unknowingly, during a night in the big city. The film focuses on two hit men (Reynolds and Forsythe) who are bound to collide with Cates, a beautiful prostitute.
Style: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: killer, sadomasochism, prostitute, hitman, partner, friends, misfit, gays and lesbians, urban, city life, gender, swat team, violence, party, female nudity, model, stripper, cocaine, tourist, transvestite, homosexuality, masturbation, real estate, orgasm, swimming pool ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: partners

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Most similar movies to Big City Blues

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about friends, partner, buddies, love and romance, disorder, lifestyle and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Big City Blues: Sparkler (1997), Breaking In (1989), Roadside Prophets (1992), Fifty Pills (2006), Bindlestiffs (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sparkler (1997)
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, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: truck driver, psychic, trailer park, friendship, on the road, gambling, drag queen, reunited friends, stripper, partner, best friend, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
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95%
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Breaking In (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
Style: clever, humorous, witty, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: safecracker, crime gone awry, thief, mentor, interracial, prostitute, heist, partner, disorder, friends, odd couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Roadside Prophets (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz ...
Style: road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, desert, on the road, biker, hotel, road trip, life philosophy, friendship, bike, obsession, journey, loner ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, seattle, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 3K
Fifty Pills (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A combination of unfortunate circumstances force Darren into the situation where he has to sell off the eponymous stash of drugs in a limited time frame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college life, college, dark humor, nothing goes right, drug dealing, teenage life, high school life, partner, disorder, coming of age, lifestyle, youth ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After escaping from jail, two teens flee to Tijuana and stay with one's childhood protector, a man masquerading as a nun.
Style: disturbing, intense, controversial, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, escape, violent, lgbt, hardcore, woman with a gun, coming of age, monster, eating disorder, prison life ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Bindlestiffs (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three high school virgins, suspended from school on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live out the plot of The Catcher in the Rye - a book they neither have read nor understand. BINDLESTIFFS documents their struggles ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, captivating, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loss of virginity, rebelliousness, teenage life, buddies, escapades, youth, disorder, friends, looking for sex, city life, silly humor, drunk ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Montana (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, boss, fugitives, murder, cancer, female fight, killer, strong female lead, shootout, on the run, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Killer Drag Queens on Dope (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Killer Drag Queens on Dope is the wild story of Ginger and Coco, two dolls with a little secret... They're contract killers who work for a one-eyed lunatic named Uncle A. Half the cutthroats in town are trying to kill them, the other half are ...
Style: semi serious, surreal, humorous, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, hitman, partner, obsession, disorder, showbiz, gender bending, chases and races, female impersonator, drug, gay, extreme ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style: entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Never on Tuesday (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt and Eddie are two young men from the mid-west travelling to California to see the sights - primarily semi-clad women on beaches. They hop into their car and head off through the desert...
Style: sexy, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, best friend, nudity, road trip, car, car crash, summer, campfire story, surrealism, partner, youth, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Highball (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A newly-married couple tries to build their social life.
Style: independent film, cynical, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: couples, partner, looking for love, looking for sex, singleness, twentysomething life, teenage love, nightlife, new year, celebrity culture, friendship, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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1999 (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to ...
Style: neurotic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: new year's eve, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, youth, lifestyle, misfit partners, young lovers, artists and showbiz, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
43%
Late Last Night (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy
Plot: friendship, golf, self discovery, relationships, drug use, divorce, showbiz, nightlife, buddies, lifestyle, prostitute, legal action ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
Style: road movie, funny, cult classic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: road trip, car chase, on the road, trucker, truck, carsploitation, police chase, sheriff, car, convoy, truck driver, trucking ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, alabama, mississippi, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
When the Party's Over (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story takes place in LA, in the house of four housemates, three women, MJ, Frankie and Amanda, and an homosexual, Banks. MJ is the kind of girl to whom money means everything and to whom others mean almost nothing. Frankie is a social worker and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot: coming of age, interracial, sex, housemates, gender, love and romance, self discovery, gays and lesbians, couples, friends, friendship, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Wild Life (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
Style: teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, retro, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, strip club, police, voyeur, angst, youth culture, friendship, gang, college, teen angst ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, asia
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40%
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Frownland (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen, FROWNLAND centers on social misfit and self-labeled "troll from under the bridge" Keith Sontag (Dore Mann). When he's not trying to sell coupons ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: friends, buddies, misfit, society, lifestyle, fall in love, social misfits, love and romance, suburbs, city life, frustration, insecurity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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39%
The Last New Year's Eve (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: lifestyle, suburbs, society, betrayal, best friend, aging, femme fatale, friends, prostitute, violence, new year's eve, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Guns for Hire (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, psychological
Plot: plot twist, life insurance, police interrogation, mental patient, therapist, hitman, aids, female assassin, hotel room, life is a bitch, twists and turns, post traumatic stress disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
American Strays (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling through. It is also the teller of different stories including the story of a traveling salesman whose only commodity is death and the story of a young man ...
Style: humorous, black comedy, independent film, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: desert, satire, salesman, hitman, misfit, serial killer, violent content, dark humor, down on your luck, death wish, criminal heroes, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The End (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: terminal illness, dark humor, suicide attempt, buddy, euthanasia, mental patient, suicidal thoughts, silly humor, society, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Grad Night (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends celebrates their graduation from Crispus Attucks High School with a jammin' party. It's hormones on overdrive, recreational drugs and lap dancing galore as the Class of 2005 goes out in style.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: tolerance, friends, youth, lifestyle, nightlife, high school life, city life, high school, love, acceptance, fight, black ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Harry (a corrupt sheriff) and his Chicano deputy hunt an Apache who is about to go to the authorities with the news Harry is smuggling marijuana. Harry makes love to Raquel (a prostitute) and Cherry (a nurse). The women also has an erotic encounter ...
Style: sexual, erotic, sensual, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, desert, male nudity, female nudity, lesbian, erotica, murder, surrealism, swimming pool, sheriff, nurse, sexploitation ...
Time: 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Gathering (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A successful architect, Sakti (Tora Sudiro), is uncertain about his sexuality, but when he meets magnetic and gay Nino (Surya Saputra), he realizes he prefers men. When Meimei (Cut Mini Theo), one of Sakti's closest female friends, reveals ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, friends, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, thirtysomething life, couples, gays and lesbians, misfit, lifestyle, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, looking for love, lifestyle, society, misfit, social differences, fall in love, disorder, buddies, love and romance, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.
Style: road movie, spectacular, action comedy, fast, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, car chase, sheriff, trucker, chase, elephant, racing, road trip, desert, on the road, carsploitation, beer ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Players Club (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Young single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. She ends up working at a shoe store, but meets two strippers from a nearby gentlemen's club who convince her there's fast money to be made ...
Style: hood, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: stripper, hip hop, gangster, urban, blaxploitation, black, crime gone awry, police investigation, organized crime, rape, fish out of water, nightlife ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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