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Plot Summary:
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat, independent film, mindfuck, psychological, black comedy, dark comedy
Best tv shows and movies like Interstate 60 (2002):
Similar in 85%
Motorama (1991)
Plot Summary:
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, humorous, semi serious, grim, cult classic, offbeat, cynical, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 82%
This Must Be the Place (2011)
Plot Summary:
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Ireland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, surreal, melancholic, touching, depressing, cerebral, stylized, witty, thought provoking
Similar in 87%
Dogma (1999)
Plot Summary:
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, clever, witty, funny, dark comedy, entertaining, hilarious, parody, offbeat
Similar in 78%
Lost in America (1985)
Plot Summary:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious, cynical, cult classic
Similar in 81%
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: philosophical, talky, funny, intellectual, absurd, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, witty, existential
Similar in 90%
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Plot Summary:
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to an editor, Jabez fells envy and promises to sell his soul to the devil for success and accidentally kills a woman with his typing machine. The Devil knocks on his door, fixes the situation and seals a contract with Jabez. His low quality novels have bad reviews but become best-sellers; Jabez enriches; has success with women, but has no time for his friends. Jabez meets with the publisher Daniel Webster who offers him a chance to break the contract with the devil.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, semi serious, hilarious, teen, offbeat
Similar in 80%
Michael (1996)
Plot Summary:
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, uplifting, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining, road movie, sweet, spiritual, mind bending
Similar in 78%
Defending Your Life (1991)
Plot Summary:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet, light, spiritual, semi serious, funny, cult classic
Similar in 84%
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Plot Summary:
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, humorous, realistic, feel good, hilarious, cult classic, inspirational, entertaining, stylized
Similar in 89%
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Plot Summary:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark fantasy, fairy tale, offbeat, stylized, cerebral, enigmatic, absurd, atmospheric, psychedelic
Similar in 80%
Sliding Doors (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, clever, sentimental, sweet, touching, semi serious, entertaining, cute, mind twisting
Similar in 76%
Due Date (2010)
Plot Summary:
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 355000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, buddy comedy, humorous, hilarious, feel good, absurd, intense, entertaining, not serious
Similar in 88%
Toys (1992)
Plot Summary:
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: stylized, melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous, futuristic, visually appealing, surreal, mysterious, cult classic
Similar in 87%
The Fall (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning, touching, visually appealing, mind bending, light, psychological
Similar in 88%
L.A. Story (1991)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, surreal, witty, talky, satirical
Similar in 78%
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, independent film, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, cult classic, contemplative, semi serious, romantic
Similar in 87%
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 105000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, psychological, romantic, independent film, surreal, philosophical, absurd, witty, thought provoking, touching
Similar in 89%
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Plot Summary:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, cerebral, mind bending, offbeat, mindfuck, philosophical, dark comedy, disturbing, black comedy
Similar in 86%
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, offbeat, humorous, witty, talky, funny, feel good, clever, depressing
Similar in 75%
The Fisher King (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, inspirational, compassionate, disturbing, dark comedy, clever, melancholic, cerebral, thought provoking
Similar in 77%
Click (2006)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 351000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: inspirational, humorous, funny, feel good, hilarious, romantic comedy, weeping, sad, surprise ending, romantic
Similar in 83%
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Plot Summary:
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 334000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, scenic, touching, offbeat, funny, visually stunning, sentimental
Similar in 86%
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious, funny, romantic comedy, touching, psychological, motivational
Similar in 87%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 508000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film, emotional, black comedy, dark comedy, sweet, humorous
Similar in 80%
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 243000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking, confusing, cerebral, mind blowing, reflective, offbeat
Similar in 77%
Idiocracy (2006)
Plot Summary:
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 178000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, futuristic, absurd, dark comedy, offbeat, intellectual, humorous, funny, satirical, not serious
Similar in 77%
Pleasantville (1998)
Plot Summary:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: black and white, touching, humorous, feel good, surreal, visual, light, talky, semi serious, clever
Similar in 87%
Big Fish (2003)
Plot Summary:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 454000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, visually stunning, fairy tale, offbeat, emotional, sad, visual
Similar in 81%
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 514000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, non-linear, dramatic, reflective, intellectual, intense, surprise ending
Similar in 83%
The Bucket List (2007)
Plot Summary:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, philosophical, sad, emotional, tear jerker, road movie