Movies like The Spectacular Now

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The Spectacular Now (2013)
 7.0
 161K
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film, romantic, feel good, sweet, heartbreaking, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem, teenage girl, high school life, school, friendship, adolescence, social relations, love and romance, relationships, addiction, love story, prom, honest, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida, california, new jersey
Keyword: reading, cup, reluctant, dreams, break-up

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Most similar movies to The Spectacular Now

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out teen, realistic, touching and romantic films with plots about teenager, teenage girl, love, coming of age, high school, youth and teen romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Spectacular Now: Youth in Revolt (2009), Very Good Girls (2013), The First Time (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Youth in Revolt (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style: surreal, teen, melancholic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: teenager, coming of age, loss of virginity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, shyness, teenage life, wooing ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, future, 21st century
Place: california, bay area, usa, oakland california, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Very Good Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, loss of virginity, female friendship, friendship, youth, wooing, love and romance, teenage life, love triangle, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, wisconsin, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 73K
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 ⇓
87%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style: touching, independent film, emotional, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: high school, cancer, adolescence, teenager, terminal illness, friendship, dying, coming of age, leukemia, teenage boy, illness, friends ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, depression, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, psychiatric ward, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, anxiety, suicidal, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.7
 97K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, young love, adolescence, teen romance, childhood sweetheart, school, teenage love, neighbor, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 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 ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.6
 96K
The O.C. (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as ...
Style: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: couples, sexual activity, high school life, classmate, teenage life, coming of age, youth, teenager, teenage love, troubled teen, first love, college ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.8
 168K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
All the Bright Places (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
Style: romantic, sweet, uplifting, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, interracial romance, love story, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, true love, young adult, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience, mental illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, funny, emotional ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, forest, hospital, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 36K
Midnight Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
Style: romantic, sincere, sad, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, terminal illness, teenage love, true love, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, star crossed lovers, teenager, life & death, illness, tragic love, teenage girl ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style: realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, teenage protagonist, diagnosis, hearing voices, high school, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting, supportive parent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: oregon, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.7
 88K
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style: romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, teen romance, bullying, class differences, father daughter relationship, relationships, love story, high school life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 80K
Beastly (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, touching, sweet, modern fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy, date night ...
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, teen romance, high school, unlikely couple, teenage love, true love, fall in love, youth, beast, teenager ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 37K
Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.2
 92K
Stuck in Love. (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Style: touching, heartbreaking, sweet, independent film, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: writer's life, coming of age, teenage love, writers, casual sex, relationships, dating, youth, love, marriage, love story, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: peru, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Style: romantic, touching, sexy, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: youth, teenage love, marooned, teenage life, island, love and romance, true love, tropical island, high school student, stranded, desert island, lost at sea ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.1
 17K
StarStruck (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind that visiting her grandparents while her sister tries to meet Christopher Wilde. One night she meets Christopher Wilde. They go an an adventure around Los Angeles and start to like each ...
Style: romantic, light, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love, teenager, celebrity, happy ending, love and romance, teenage life, pop star, paparazzi, fall in love, youth, couples, opposites attract ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, michigan, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 47K
Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 108K
Paper Towns (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he ...
Style: teen, exciting, road movie, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, travel, love, road trip, unrequited love, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, peru, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.4
 325K
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 ⇓
100%
 6.2
 31K
Palo Alto (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, youth, teenage life, high school, teenage girl, teenager, crush, high school life, unfulfillment, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, palo alto california, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.3
 65K
After (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
Style: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: love, college, opposites attract, teenager, teen romance, fall in love, teenage love, youth, high school hunk, teenage boy, couples, sexual relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Everything, Everything (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic drama, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, love, illness, neighbor, teen romance, teenage love, interracial love, interracial romance, teenage girl, love interest, teenage protagonist, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2017
Place: hawaii, america, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
Style: teen, emotional, witty, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, adolescence, teenager, coming of age, teen angst, teenage girl, teen romance, female protagonist, best friend, friendship, teacher, nymph ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: california, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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