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Plot Summary:
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 82%
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
Plot Summary:
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, intercultural, campy, cult film, inter cultural
Similar in 82%
Harem Holiday (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is travelling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so impressed with his on-screen adventures that they want to hire him to carry out an assassination for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, psychotronic, realistic, exotic, campy
Similar in 76%
Clambake (1967)
Plot Summary:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, psychotronic, light, sexy, bad ending, melancholic
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Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Plot Summary:
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
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Tickle Me (1965)
Plot Summary:
Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather directing her to a cache of gold in the ghost town of Silverado. The sheriff and his gang learn of the letter and plot to take it away from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exotic
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Speedway (1968)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Double Trouble (1967)
Plot Summary:
When singer Gut Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, romantic comedy, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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At Long Last Love (1975)
Plot Summary:
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, art deco, neo screwball comedy
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Goddess (2013)
Plot Summary:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, sexy
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
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Teenage Millionaire (1961)
Plot Summary:
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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Right This Way Folks! (1964)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, tense, light, romantic
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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Follow That Dream (1962)
Plot Summary:
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
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From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Plot Summary:
A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, rough
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Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Billie (1965)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Stroker Ace (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, cult film
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Fireball 500 (1966)
Plot Summary:
Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Thunder Alley (1967)
Plot Summary:
Stock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Kid Galahad (1962)
Plot Summary:
Kid Galahad is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer. The movie was filmed on location in Idyllwild, California and is noted for having a strong supporting cast. Most critics rate it as one of Presley's best performances. The film is a remake of the 1937 original version starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, esoteric, sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic, remake of american film, modern day adaptation