Movies like Dirty Girl

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Dirty Girl (2010)
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic, sweet, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, happy ending, honest, sexpot, teenage life, family problems, dancing, women, prejudice, teenager, runaway, lgbt, nymphet, virgin, strong female lead, school, sex, fashion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
Keyword: oldies, challenge

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Most similar movies to Dirty Girl

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and feel good films with plots about coming of age, teenager, youth, friendship, teenage girl, teenage life and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Dirty Girl: Mystic Pizza (1988), Lucas (1986), Ghost World (2001), Hick (2011), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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100%
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Lucas (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
Style: touching, feel good, entertaining, epic, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: american football, coming of age, high school, cheerleader, youth, love, friendship, cheerleading, adolescence, unrequited love, high school student, women ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 126K
Ghost World (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style: black comedy, thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 21K
Hick (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, hitchhiker, teenage runaway, on the road, nymphet, alcoholic, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, lolita, youth, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, oklahoma, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Way Way Back (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style: touching, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, women, mother, teen angst, love, family drama, single mother, teenager, bittersweet, small town, daughter ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Lady Bird (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.
Style: thought provoking, art house, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, first love, loss of virginity, prom, friendship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, teen angst ...
Time: year 2002, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2003 ...
Place: sacramento california, california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Geography Club (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
Style: witty, semi serious, touching, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, gay teenager, gay, closeted homosexual, sexual orientation, lesbian, gay relationship, friendship, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, gay interest, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.0
 415K
Easy A (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, notoriety, love and romance, classmate, popularity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.7
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Crossroads (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three friends get together and bury a box making a pact to open it at midnight at their high school graduation. In the little town in Georgia that they live in, things soon change. One is little miss perfect, one is an engaged prom queen, and the ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, teen, sexy, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, road trip, friendship, on the road, pregnancy, female bonding, virgin, teenage girl, fall in love, singer, audition ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002
Place: austin texas, los angeles, tucson arizona, usa, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
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Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, coming of age, gay, youth, friendship, pregnant girl, satire, teenager, atheism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, xian, baltimore, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.8
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The First Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sorority Wars (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Katie (Lucy Hale) and Sara (Phoebe Strole) have been friends since childhood. They enter college together, where Katie is a prized legacy candidate for the Delta sorority, which was co-founded decades ago by her mother, Lutie (Courtney Thorne-Smith) ...
Style: semi serious, teen, uplifting, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: sorority, college, mother daughter conflict, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, high school, teenager, youth, parents and children, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, college life, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 10K
Unpregnant (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
Style: road movie, sweet, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, abortion, coming of age, teenager, road trip, teenage girl, pregnant girl, women, friendship, pregnancy, schoolgirl, moral dilemma ...
Time: 2020s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sassy Pants (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, older man younger man relationship, coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, father daughter relationship, eccentric family, parents and children, gay father, disorder, workplace, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Go-Getter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style: road movie, melancholic, ironic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, introspection, love and romance, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007
Place: oregon, new orleans, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
 583
Fat Girls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fat Girls is an original off-beat comedy feature. It focuses on Rodney Miller, not your typical Texas high school student...he is a theater lover and his ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. Awkward and shy, he doesn't have many people to talk ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, eccentric family, teenage life, social misfits, youth, obsession, oral sex, american football, high school student, masturbation ...
Place: texas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Mistress America (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
Style: independent film, humorous, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, writers, betrayal, eccentric family, prank, follow your dream, hopes, disorder, family relations, dysfunctional family, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.4
 58K
LOL (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, youth, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, high school romance, coming of age, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Remember the Daze (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, coming of age, high school prom, hardcase students, juvenile delinquency, underage drinking, love and romance, teenage life, teenage love, junior high school, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 9K
Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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