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Plot Summary:
Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way, they enlist the help of a young woman who runs a wrecking service.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, cult film
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American Beer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Four young Canadian men are out on a road trip when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They each go their own way in search of a needed alternator, but along the way, each one experiences an unexpectedly memorable adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
Similar in 78%
Breaking In (1989)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, independent film, realistic, semi serious, light, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
Plot Summary:
After seven years in boarding school, Morgan Stewart is finally coming home. He discovers it's not the same happy home it used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, scary, romantic, sexy, clever
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Roadkill (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band 'Children of Paradise' who have disappeared. Since she can't drive, she has to take the train and bus and eventually hitchhike. On her way through the Canadian back country she meets the weirdest people - and learns to drive, what leads to... roadkill.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult 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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National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer (2009)
Plot Summary:
From National Lampoon, the masters of raunchy comedy, comes a summer tale of beers, babes, and bros! In the surf town of Ventura, California, JD's surf board is stolen by a surfer from Los Angeles...a crime that cannot go unpunished. Gathering his friends and the local surf hero, Mike Mooney, they take a road trip to LA to get the surfboard back, then return to Ventura for the wildest summer party ever!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexy, exciting, hot
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Noobz (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four friends hit the road to LA to compete in the Cyberbowl Video Game Championship, but will they be able to compete with the worst hangovers of their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, not serious, light, independent film
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Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling (2009)
Plot Summary:
Venturing into the woods causes nothing but trouble and hilarity for three misguided males in this straight to video spin-off of 2004's "Without A Paddle".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, unusual plot structure, raunchy, bad ending, visually appealing, complex, idiotic
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Bindlestiffs (2012)
Plot Summary:
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 along the way as they surrender their virginities to vagrants, prostitutes, and crack fiends. Hot on their tail is Charlie, the deranged school security guard. Under the impression that the boys are planning a school shooting, he takes the law into his own hands to stop them and save America.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, teen sex comedy, independent film, sexy, hot
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Tapeheads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, intense, offbeat, realistic, witty, independent film
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Volunteers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, parody, hilarious, funny, light, romantic
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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Adventures of Serial Buddies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van just to make friends. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure - encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren't careful they might just become human, in what is "the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic
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Ass Backwards (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends (Kate and Chloe) embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, underground film, independent film
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The Odd Couple II (1998)
Plot Summary:
30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, slapstick, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, semi serious, buddy comedy, funny
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Wieners (2008)
Plot Summary:
A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, exciting, tense, light, erotic
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Southbound Heist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chaz and his friends take a road trip after discovering his landlord's plot to kill the creator of the Showboy magazine. Chaz must choose between his beloved magazines, his best friends, the girl of his dreams, or saving an innocent man's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, independent film
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You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Plot Summary:
Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, witty, semi serious, soap opera
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Strange Wilderness (2008)
Plot Summary:
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious, realistic, parody, thought provoking, clever, suspense
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Land Ho! (2014)
Plot Summary:
A pair of former brothers-in-law embark on a road trip through Iceland.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, road movie, captivating, funny, cult classic, semi serious
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Friendship! (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, melancholic
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The Runnin' Kind (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Ohio teen moves to L.A. to find fame as a rock musician and to find a drummer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sweet Little Lies (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, humorous, road movie, light, feel good, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious
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A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Plot Summary:
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Roadside Prophets (1992)
Plot Summary:
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 of the Beastie Boys), Joe journeys from Los Angeles to Nevada, meeting all sorts of characters (played by the likes of David Carradine, John Cusack, Timothy Leary and Arlo Guthrie) along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious, scenic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Bored Silly (2000)
Plot Summary:
What starts out as a boring day for Bobby, Johnnie and Chuck quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious encounters these close-knit friends will experience on a day that began with the classic kid question of all time: "What do you guys wanna do?".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Redgrave and Flint Weaver met only three weeks ago. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming the greatest pirates the Great Salt Lake has ever known. Still, pirate life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. For Kirk, it's a life of failure. For Flint, one without reward. That is until they stumble across a long lost treasure map that has the power to not only fulfill their wildest pirate dreams but curse them as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Plot Summary:
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, teen, psychotronic, humorous, funny, surreal, exciting, offbeat, feel good
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that's exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner fix money can buy: White Castle hamburgers. Both guys are at a crossroads, about to make major decisions that will affect the course of their lives. Yet they arrive at wisdom by accident as they drive around New Jersey in search of fast food.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 204000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, sex comedy, teen, feel good, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy, cult classic