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Stranger Than Paradise
1984 • Drama • Comedy
New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise visit. Later, Eva moves in with their aunt in Cleveland, and W…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Stranger Than Paradise
1983
30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger Than Paradise" at the 1983 In…
Why matched: semantic similarity
Do the Right Thing
1989 • Drama
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors.…
Why matched: genres Drama
Eyes of an Angel
1991 • Drama
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for…
Why matched: genres Drama
Love, Cheat & Steal
1993 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by se…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Black Dynamite
2009 • Comedy • Action
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterate…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Action
Timecode
2000 • Drama • Romance
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen tes…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Super Mario Bros.
1993 • Adventure • Comedy • Family
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe fro…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Things I Never Told You
1996 • Romance • Comedy
Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't love her anymore and wants…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Let It Ride
1989 • Comedy
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredibl…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Jury Duty
1995 • Drama • Comedy
When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he d…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Land of Plenty
2004 • Drama
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
Why matched: genres Drama
Platoon
1986 • Drama • War • Action
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
3 from Hell
2019 • Thriller • Horror
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995 • Crime • Comedy • Fantasy
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anyt…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Strange Days
1995 • Drama • Thriller • Science Fiction
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 • Drama • Comedy • War
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Smell of Success
2011 • Comedy
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the t…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Columbus Day
2008 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller