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Plot Summary:
Self-centered twenty-something Penny Black (Astra McLaren) travels around New Zealand in an attempt to save her job and opulent lifestyle. Along the way she meets a guy name Guy (Anton Tennet); who makes her slow her down and question the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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3 Mile Limit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1965, a true story of one man’s struggle to bring rock music to a nation, an iconic New Zealand story with a universal ‘David and Goliath’ theme. The youth will find it incredible this actually happened and existed as part of New Zealand society in the 1960′s. It’s a titanic struggle for freedom and ‘the choice to choose’.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min
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All the Places (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings who haven't seen each other in 15 years mend their relationship while fulfilling a childhood dream: a motorcycle road trip through Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
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Bad Behaviour (2023)
Plot Summary:
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spiritual, absurd, independent film, dark comedy
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Seven Hundred Miles (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age road trip film about a depressed writer back from his first year of college who reunites with his three childhood friends: a drunk, a sex addict, and a manic-depressive. In an attempt to abandon their empty lives, they embark on a mission to fulfill their childhood dream of seeing Cadillac Ranch. What begins as an escape becomes an entrapment after an encounter with their childhood nemesis ignites friction within the group, forcing their problems out into the open and turning them against one another.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Ladybug (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ugur and Baris run a DVD Shop together. They are funded by Baris' wealthy uncle, Engin. Ugur is in love with Leyla, Engin's little sister, also Baris' cousin. Leyla too, favors Ugur in a special way, and they meet from time to time in secret not to alert Engin of their romance. As an educated and free spirited girl, Leyla feels entrapped by Engin's authority and the limitations of the conservative neighborhood they live in. She feels her only way out is by marriage, but Ugur seems of no help in this matter. He does not have the courage to open up and face Engin. He feels he has to put his life in order first and provide the security Engin expects and Leyla deserves. The solution comes from Baris. They are to shoot a film. This way Ugur would prove his worth to the neighborhood and confidently ask Engin for Leyla's hand in marriage. However, only when they watch the dailies of their first shoot will they realize filmmaking to be much harder than presumed as the outcome is a big failure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Tokyo Taxi (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ryo (Yamada Masasi), the lead singer of an amateur rock band at night, owns a Ramen noodle shop. He cannot fly on airplanes because he has a fear of them. Ironically, he finds himself attracted to a stewardess who comes to eat very often at his shop. One day, an opportunity comes knocking on their doors - they are to perform in Seoul. The performance day approaches, but their dream of performing in Seoul is about to be shattered because of Ryo, who cannot fly on an airplane. As a last resort, Ryo decides to take a taxi in Tokyo and fly to Seoul, leaving behind the charming stewardess who makes his heart flutter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Charlie & Boots (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, sincere, humorous, contemplative
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One Step from Me (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tatiana is a journalist with a routine life in all its aspects and a recently failed love relationship. Motivated by her best friend, she decides to make a stop and travel around Costa Rica to find herself and inner peace.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Good Morning Karachi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Good Morning Karachi addresses the tension between religious extremism and modernity through the eyes of a young woman, Rafina, coming of age in Karachi city. Rafina comes from a poor background but dreams of making something of herself. She wants to become a model, but when the opportunity arises she faces resistance from both her Mother and fiance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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This is Not a Love Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Adventures in the Sin Bin (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have sex in it. When he is invited to become friends with Tony, the school's big man on campus, he hopes to get some romantic pointers so that he might use his van himself with dream girl Suzie. Things become more complicated, however, when he discovers Tony is sleeping with Suzie himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, hot, cult film
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November (2003)
Plot Summary:
Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, art house
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Tennessee (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of three people who strive to realize their dreams. Brothers Carter and Ellis set out on a road trip to their childhood home in a desperate search for their estranged father, who may hold the key to their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, humorous, emotional, sincere, rough, serious, realistic
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As Green As It Gets (2018)
Plot Summary:
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Man Friday (1975)
Plot Summary:
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, captivating, realistic, biting, suspense
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Joe Dirt (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, hilarious, light, road movie, absurd, not serious, slapstick, cult classic
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Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the movie "Thelma & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener's old car to have a freedom experience. They travel to uncommon places in search for three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly. During this search, they embark on several adventures as if life was just a children's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, sweet
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Swept Away (1974)
Plot Summary:
Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. He is stood up.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: melancholic, harsh, talky, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, sexy, biting, sexual
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Plot Summary:
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. The cross-country journey begins when the 2 boys think they killed a drunk and steal his car en route to Canada where they encounter The Liberty Maid. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, exciting, light, melancholic, suspenseful, tense, road movie
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25 kmh (2018)
Plot Summary:
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, captivating, light, feel good
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, touching, feel good, humorous, scenic, bloody, sweet, independent film, cult classic, colorful
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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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Bass Ackwards (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, mumblecore, offbeat, independent film
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The Relatives (2021)
Plot Summary:
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Haute Couture (2021)
Plot Summary:
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Road Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, teen, spiritual, sad, hilarious, comedy drama
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Weekend (1967)
Plot Summary:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental, art house, avant garde, political, absurd, controversial
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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
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Chef (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, feel good, touching, road movie, culinary, suspense, entertaining, scenic, semi serious, motivational
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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