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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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This Movie Is Broken (2010)
Plot Summary:
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, touching, humorous, realistic
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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
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A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, Henry stumps up the cash. To help find the right buyer, Henry teams up with his slightly dodgy best friend Teddy and together the two head off on an insane journey that leads them deep into the secret world of celebrity body part trading.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Plot Summary:
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, realistic, humorous, gloomy, semi serious
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
Plot Summary:
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dudes (1987)
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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Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, contemplative, tense, sincere, offbeat, semi serious, road movie
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Cas & Dylan (2013)
Plot Summary:
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, buddy comedy
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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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Roadie (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, funny, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film, cult film
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Fubar (2002)
Plot Summary:
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, ironic, funny, witty, cult classic, independent film, controversial, offbeat, realistic
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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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Bandits (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, light, talky, semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, offbeat, inspirational, romantic
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Highway 61 (1991)
Plot Summary:
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way. Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagiar team up as a barber and a smuggler running a corpse on the roof of a '63 Ford Galaxy 500 on a one-car funeral procession stretching from Northern Ontario to New Orleans on the only continuous highway between Canada an the U.S. What unfolds is a white trash odyssey filled with strange roadside distractions played eagerly by the likes of Peter Breck, Jello Biafra and Art Bergmann. If you've seen the bookends of this trilogy, Hard Core Logo and Roadkill, then you know that in any Bruce McDonald film, the asphalt has a speaking part.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, talky, dark, dark comedy, semi serious, light
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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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Garage Days (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young garage band in Sydney, is trying to make it big in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, feel good, semi serious, exciting, realistic, freeze frame, funny, light
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Svengali (2013)
Plot Summary:
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
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1234 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they require additional band members. Step forward the driven (and drinking) guitarist Billy (Kieran Bew) and slightly scatty bassist Emily (Lyndsey Marshal), who has a sideline in making sculpture from hair.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, talky, intense, captivating, clever, realistic, biting, independent film, black comedy
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Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Plot Summary:
The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, erotic, offbeat, independent film, biting, campy
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You're Sleeping, Nicole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious, art house, black and white, cynical
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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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Electric Apricot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, mockumentary, offbeat, semi serious, fake documentary
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Plot Summary:
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, thinking, cult classic, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth. The Love Dolls set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, campy
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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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Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
Plot Summary:
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times... Gram Parsons was one of the most influential musicians of his time; a bitter, brilliant, genius who knew Elvis, tripped with the Stones and fatally overdosed on morphine and tequila in 1973. And from his dying came a story. A story from deep within folklore; a story of friendship, honour and adventure; a story so extraordinary that if it didn't really happen, no one would believe it. Two men, a hearse, a dead rock star, five gallons of petrol, and a promise. And the most extraordinary chase of modern times.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, road movie, dark comedy, dark, offbeat, realistic, black comedy
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Detroit Metal City (2008)
Plot Summary:
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Gueros (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, captivating, thought provoking, hispanic, art film, black and white, existential, realistic