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Plot Summary:
A young woman (Tanya Allen) relay races across Canada with her boyfriend (Breckin Meyer) and another couple (Jake Busey and Denise Richards) to bail her brother out of a marijuana charge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, political thriller, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Catch Me If You Can (1989)
Plot Summary:
A hotshot teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school which is facing closure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Zero to Sixty (1978)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
Similar in 81%
The White River Kid (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer, who is running from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
Similar in 85%
Drawing Flies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Donner and his roomates are out of money and about to get evicted from their home. So as a diversion from their situation, he invites them to his father's cabin in the Canadian wilderness. They all go along, but soon learn that there's no cabin - he's really trying to find Sasquatch.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting
Similar in 78%
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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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It (2014)
Plot Summary:
Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It is the third film in the Trailer Park Boys franchise, and a sequel to Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009). In the film, Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) attempt a series of get-rich-quick schemes after being released from prison, but are again pursued by former Sunnyvale Trailer Park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, mockumentary, captivating, tense, light, epic, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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Blue State (2007)
Plot Summary:
BLUE STATE is a romantic comedy about a disgruntled Democrat who actually follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throught the car.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, grindhouse, hispanic, exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, clever
Similar in 85%
Gangster Exchange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. If he fails his boss will stick his sword where the rising sun don't shine. Marco's a muscle mountain enforcer working for a family of ex-commandos from the Bosnian war. He's an entry-level thug with dreams of rising up the ranks. But in the Bosnian mob, promotion is spelled AK-47. When a bloody New York mob war erupts and Hiro and Marco snatch the toilet. It's worth millions - if they can find somebody who can decipher the Japanese chemistry formula. Wounded, hunted and dragging a 50-pound toilet made of heroin; they race around New York. Through sleazy alleyways, bouncer brawls, sniper shoot-outs and a biker war they're on a quest to find a Japanese chemist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, exciting, clever, independent film, fast
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Short Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, detective, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
Similar in 78%
Road to Redemption (2001)
Plot Summary:
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, christian film
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Return to Macon County (1975)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Stone & Ed (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's just another hazy day for STONE and his brother ED until they unwittingly discover they may not be brothers after all! With the help of their techno-savvy neighbors JEFF and PHILLIP GUY, "The Guys," Stone and Ed set out on a quest to find Stone's mother, JANE DOE. After the first two Jane Does on their list don't turn out to be the one, the two less than genius brothers make their way to Mexico, and to the last Jane on the list. Along the way, this wacky duo encounters a cast of zany characters and one, out of this world adventure. By the time its all over Stone & Ed will have found their way into the middle of a dangerous game of cat and mouse between Mexico's largest drug lord, SENOR GORDO, and the CIA's most incompetent agents to ever leave Langley; THE MAN IN THE YELLOW HAT and his little partner, CURIOUS JORGE. Between mistaken identities of cases, and cases of mistaken identities, Stone & Ed are in for the trip of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Cannonball Run II (1984)
Plot Summary:
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, parody, humorous, spoof, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, not serious, fast, hilarious
Similar in 86%
Cannonball Fever (1989)
Plot Summary:
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, feel good, unusual plot structure, surreal, splatter
Similar in 81%
Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
Plot Summary:
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big after the duo sours on rehab.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, realistic
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key to getting the girl, getting the job and getting a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
Similar in 75%
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, slapstick, road movie, action comedy, independent film, fast
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Rat Race (2001)
Plot Summary:
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, humorous, light, feel good, hilarious, exciting, parody, slapstick, fast
Similar in 77%
Chasers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, intense, light, humorous, semi serious, realistic, romantic, independent film, erotic, feel good
Similar in 87%
Carquake! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman (Bill McKinney), his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, humorous, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast, poliziottesco
Similar in 79%
Trouble Bound (1993)
Plot Summary:
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he roars off to find his future. Unfortunately, they forgot to get the key they need off the body, so they're chasing him. Meanwhile, a mafia kingpin's daughter is trying to kill the hitman that killed her father, but her grandmother is trying to make peace with the family that hired the hitman, so she and her thugs are trying to stop the daughter. The guy and the daughter get together and experience mayhem on the run from two directions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, humorous, serious, cynical, road movie, neo noir, independent film, rough, fast
Similar in 84%
Rolling Kansas (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, road movie, offbeat, realistic, independent film
Similar in 82%
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, road movie, parody, funny, light
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Weirdsville (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, idiotic
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Growing Op (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, mystical, mystic, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Flashback (1990)
Plot Summary:
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, emotional, humorous, witty, realistic, road movie, uplifting, action comedy, cult classic
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A Girl Is a Girl (1999)
Plot Summary:
Imagine "High Fidelity" as directed by Jean Luc Godard and you've basically got the gist of "A Girl is a Girl.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Auto Recovery (2008)
Plot Summary:
A heart warming story about three young men who specialize in recovering high end, expensive and well protected autos that are hard to retrieve due to lack of payments.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, suspense, semi serious, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Entertainment (2014)
Plot Summary:
Akhil (Akshay Kumar) finds out that he is the heir of 3000 crore rupees as he and his mother were abandoned by his diamond baron father (Panna Laal Johari) who is now dead. However, his life goes Topsy-turvy when he learns that the empire goes to entertainment (a dog).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick