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Plot Summary:
Road movie about two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different clashing cultures and their journey of self-discovery during the drive to the largest music festival in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Access All Areas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four runaway teenagers are catapulted on a wild and uplifting road trip out of the city and across the water to a magical island music festival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Cafe Artist (2019)
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Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Desierto en tu mente (2017)
Plot Summary:
Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope for finding an inner mental peace will prevail. This movie is characterized for an experimental language, with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, underground film, black and white
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Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees is a one-hour comedy special televised on the ABC Network on Monday February 17, 1997. The show features all four of the original Monkees and would be the last time Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork would appear together. Michael Nesmith wrote and directed the program.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Love and Love Not (2022)
Plot Summary:
There are two places Nicky Leandro calls home each reinforcing a particular facet of his personality: the red-blooded New Yorker and the L.A. transplant. Up until now each have done a fine job of compartmentalizing themselves. That is until Lily, an old flame, gets a hold of him right as he's about to head home for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Four's a Crowd (2022)
Plot Summary:
Julián, a divorced man with financial problems, uses a cell phone application to share his car with strangers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Better Start Running (2018)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - preferably dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Coast to Coast (1980)
Plot Summary:
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Seat Filler (2004)
Plot Summary:
Derrick is a struggling law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet. One day, he is seated next to the beautiful pop superstar Jhnelle, who mistakes him for a well-known industry executive. With an instant chemistry, the unlikely pair begin to date.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, black cinema
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. After Harold and his family enjoy some of her "groovy" brownies, he decides to "drop out" with her and become a hippie too. But can he return to his old life when he discovers that the hippie lifestyle is just a little too independent and irresponsible for his tastes?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, parody, funny, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Punks (2000)
Plot Summary:
In his directorial debut, Patrik-Ian Polk chronicles the everyday dramas of four single, gay black men as they search for love — especially in the quartet’s favorite West Hollywood watering hole, Miss Smokies. The foursome includes successful shutterbug Marcus (Seth Gilliam), the recently scorned Hill (Dwight Ewell), self-destructive Dante (Renoly Santiago) and fabulous drag queen Chris (Jazzmun).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, independent film, queer cinema, campy
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Cool Blue (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dustin, an aspiring painter meets this woman named Christiane. Dustin is on a search for love, sex, and inspiration. When Christiane dumps him and disapears as quickly as she dropped in, Dustin embarks on an obsessive search in Southern California to search for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Apartment 12 (2000)
Plot Summary:
In this goofy comedy, Mark Ruffalo (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) stars as Alex, a struggling painter going through a particularly bad patch. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get work, Alex finds his life taking a rare upswing when he moves into a new apartment and falls for his neighbor, Lori (Beth Ulrich). But when things start to go wrong between Alex and Lori, their close proximity to each another proves to have an enormous downside, leading to further amusing antics as Ruffalo proves his comedic chops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, exciting
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There's Always Woodstock (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Neurotic, struggling songwriter, Catherine Brown's life in New York City falls apart, she is forced to confront her past when she spends the summer at her childhood home in Woodstock.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen, touching, realistic, independent film
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Back Roads (1981)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, talky, hispanic, campy
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Bikini Beach (1964)
Plot Summary:
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, slapstick, independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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West of Here (2002)
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Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, funny, light, satirical, surreal, cult classic, art house, offbeat, realistic
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Tammy (2014)
Plot Summary:
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, funny, absurd, sentimental, romantic, surreal, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Seems Like Old Times (1980)
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Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, romantic, witty, funny
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Fathers' Day (1997)
Plot Summary:
After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and when his father refuses to go after him. His mother, Collette, then goes to one of her former boyfriends, Jack, a lawyer, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack initially refuses. So she goes to another boyfriend, Dale, who goes off looking for Scott. Eventually the two men meet and realize that they are looking for the same boy and that Collette told them they are the boy's father. What follows is a mad chase, cause the boy doesn't want to go back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, road movie, feel good, realistic, not serious, funny, hilarious, retro
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Duets (2000)
Plot Summary:
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, entertaining, humorous, road movie, clever, comedy drama, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Victor Victoria (1982)
Plot Summary:
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: witty, clever, touching, humorous, stylized, funny, romantic, sexy, sex comedy, offbeat
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Amelia's 25th (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actress Amelia begins her 25th birthday by breaking up with her boyfriend, and things only go downhill from there. After visiting a dubious psychic for advice, Amelia sets off on a bizarre adventure to find money for rent and possibly love.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Up in Smoke (1978)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, psychedelic, humorous, parody, road movie, mysterious, psychotronic, sexy
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Save the Date (2012)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a bookstore manager resists a seemingly perfect guy's attempts to woo her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mumblecore, romantic, sex comedy, independent film, surprise ending
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Undiscovered (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Plot Summary:
Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francis follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: black and white, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Forces of Nature (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, romantic, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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To Rome with Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, surreal, ironic, sexy, light, anthology, funny, contemplative, postmodern