Movies like Sideways 2009
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Sideways (2009)
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Original name: サイドウェイズ
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country. Remake of the 2004 film 'Sideways'.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, road movie, captivating, humorous, semi serious, remake of american film
Plot:
wedding, road trip, friendship, friends, on the road, self discovery, couples, buddies, unfulfillment, love, japanese man, humanity, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, disorder, bittersweet, couple relations, cooking and food, romance, road
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, california
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Most similar movies to Sideways
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and sentimental films with plots about friendship, friends, couples, buddies, bittersweet, love and romance and couple relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Sideways: Cleopatra (2003), Full Grown Men (2006), The Big Ask (2013), New York City Serenade (2007), The Lather Effect (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, fall in love, human nature, on the road, looking for love, introspection, best friend, hopes, parents and children, family business, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style:
road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
amusement park, friends, partner, best friend, family relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, moral dilemma, youth, buddies, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, couples, dark humor, buddies, death of mother, young adult, couple relations, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two down on their luck childhood friends struggle to figure out their lives. Ray a drummer in a rock and roll band, and Owen an aspiring film maker spend most of their time working menial jobs and drinking. When Owen's fiancé Lynn breaks off ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, coming of age, introspection, friends, buddies, hidden identity, youth, disorder, couple relations, alcohol abuse, male friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, kansas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Style:
humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
friends, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, couples, looking for love, introspection, unfulfillment, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfilled love, hopes, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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, on the road, partner, best friend, friends, unfulfillment, buddies, self discovery, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
california, usa, cleveland ohio, los angeles, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
divorce, friendship, bittersweet, skinny dipping, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, love and romance, introspection, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, buddies, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, hospital, storytelling, unsuccessful, dealing with death, control, stage actress ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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174
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, road movie, fake documentary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
best friend, buddies, friends, friendship, farce, disorder, self discovery, escapades, midlife crisis, nothing goes right, on the road, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, couples, love and romance, couple relations, friends, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, aging, multiple storylines, naked man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, mumblecore, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wedding, church, self discovery, friendship, redemption, odd couple, buddies, addiction, coming of age, alcoholism, vandalism, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
547
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A newly promoted book editor discovers a potential best seller, although unfinished, manuscript buried in her predecessor's office. Moved by the passionate love story and drawing parallels to her own life, she embarks on a journey to find the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
true love, friendship, couples, writer's life, office, terminal illness, unfulfillment, bittersweet, friends, love, journey, writers ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous
Plot:
friends, friendship, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, self discovery, odd couple, disorder, couples, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, love and romance, couples, siblings relations, city life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, wedding, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A female buddy story in which Meg Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly (Christine Lahti) is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
road trip, friendship, truck driver, waitress, female friendship, female protagonist, buddy, waking up, journey, girl power, buddies, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
alaska, wyoming, portland oregon, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends' wedding, which ended in disaster, they have a big fight, which leads to Ori proposing. But there is trouble in paradise when Ori's conservative father meets Tali, ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, family relations, meet the parents, couple relations, friends, parents and children, buddies, disorder, love, nothing goes right, friendship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
food, lifestyle, isolation, friendship, workplace situations, workplace, buddies, forces of nature, cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Philippines, Brazil, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, self discovery, obsessive quest, love and romance, couples, on the road, countryside, relationships, romantic rivalry, romantic triangle, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
Style:
ironic, sentimental, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
adaptation, artist, couples, society, self discovery, lifestyle, bittersweet, love, ambition, loneliness, fashion, art ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky
Plot:
couple relations, friendship, dealing with death, midlife crisis, music band, road trip, buddies, desire for fame, on the road, rock music, ashes, best friend ...
Place:
australia, washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.
Style:
road movie, humorous, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
breakup, travel, best friend, on the road, love, couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, friendship, trip, buddies, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, silly humor, friends, midlife crisis, friendship, introspection, buddies, soccer match, soccer, funeral, disorder, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, france, germany, holland, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot:
friendship, midlife crisis, road trip, self discovery, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, escapades, new life, danger, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
719
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
wedding, bittersweet, friends, family relations, couples, thirtysomething life, moral dilemma, chase, buddies, love and romance, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, touching
Plot:
friendship, couples, love and romance, silly humor, friends, lifestyle, buddies, breakup, singleness, breaking up with girlfriend, summer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Argentina, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Marcus and his brother Antoine land in Argentina to celebrate their cousin's wedding and to discover the pleasures of the capital, Buenos-Aires. Marcus is joyful, while Antoine, who has just been dumped, is completely down. Marcus is well ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, family relations, couples, self discovery, on the road, wedding party, brother brother relationship, friendship, society, bittersweet, siblings relations, winery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style:
road movie, ironic, melancholic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance, introspection, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, boy, friendship ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s
Place:
oregon, new orleans, california, new jersey, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. Inspired by a true story and remake of the Belgian film Hasta La Vista
Style:
road movie, sincere, humorous, semi serious, cute
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
paralysis, disability, brothel, self discovery, quadriplegic, friends, escapades, buddies, obsessive quest, terminal illness, friendship, independence ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
100%
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