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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
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Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic attentions of Sid, a local housepainter.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, philosophical, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, salesman, highway, road trip, friendship, desert, self discovery, deaf man, youth, love and romance, midlife crisis, singleness, couples, social misfits, looking for love, introspection, lifestyle, partner, solace, human nature, buddies ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 1990s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona, los angeles, california
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, touching and serious films with plots about friendship, drinking, male female relationship, couples, drink, love and romance and friend mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Bodies, Rest & Motion: Body Shots (1999), The Exploding Girl (2009), Two Girls and a Guy (1997), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), The Brown Bunny (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Body Shots (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning ...
Style: sexy, suspense, melancholic, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, nightclub, erotica, oral sex, rough sex, friendship, bodyguard, rape, life philosophy, dysfunctional family, happy ending, lone hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Exploding Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Style: mumblecore, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, looking for love, lovers apart, disability, youth, introspection, young lovers, husband wife relationship, coming of age, male female relationship, friends, party ...
Time: year 2009
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two women confront their boyfriend, a two-timing actor who professed eternal love to each.
Style: talky, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: betrayal, womanizer, manipulation, love triangle, sex, love and romance, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, erotica, infidelity, dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa
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100%
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they ...
Style: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Audience: manly
Plot: car chase, road trip, on the road, racing, mechanic, character study, classic car, carsploitation, life philosophy, auto mechanic, hitchhiker, desert ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., santa fe new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Brown Bunny (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, sex, sex scene, real sex, unsimulated sex, prostitute, controversy, explicit sex, redemption, rape, drug addict, oral sex ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
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Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style: independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot: vietnam war, friendship, college, male nudity, skinny dipping, drinking, protest, anti war, male pubic hair, group of friends, memories, buddies ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
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Beautiful Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight"s Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Style: heartbreaking, feel good, touching, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, friendship, slut, coming of age, small town, slutty attitude, snow, high school, life philosophy, love story, hometown, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: minnesota, massachusetts, usa, new england
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
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Time: year 2004, 20th century
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
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Time: year 2000
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
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Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Style: feel good, sincere, touching, sentimental, road movie ...
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Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, captivating ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
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Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
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20%
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, mumblecore ...
Plot: self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, shoplifting, suburbs, girl power, feminist, women, spring break, society ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
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19%
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Crashing (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of ...
Style: sexy, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
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19%
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Best Friends (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, road movie, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: erotica, voyeurism, voyeur, best friend, friends, friendship, female nudity, bare breasts, dancer, road trip, couples, psychopath ...
Time: 70s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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