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Clerks (1994)
240K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style:
clever, funny, philosophical, independent film, offbeat, humorous, witty, dark comedy, inspirational, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, sarcasm, satire, slacker, workplace, everyday life, weed, stupidity, loser, stoner, one day, hipster, friendship between men, redemption, bromance, bdsm, video store, employment, job, blacks and whites, coming of age, youth culture, friends, couple relations, supermarket ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993, 1990s
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa, north america
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Most similar movies to Clerks
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and clever films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, friendship, mentor, drinking alcohol, catastrophe and drinking mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Clerks: Mallrats (1995), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Grandma's Boy (2006), The Big Lebowski (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
134K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, talky, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
slacker, jay and silent bob, friendship, weed, youth, life philosophy, bare butt, videotaped sex, dumped by girlfriend, superhero, coming of age, one day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, seattle, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
144K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.
Style:
humorous, witty, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, workplace, masturbation, bachelor party, bromance, voyeur, fast food restaurant, geek, slacker, everyday life, human relationship, jay and silent bob ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
Style:
humorous, funny, talky, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
stoner, jay and silent bob, profanity, weed, dumb, hitchhiker, road trip, filmmaking, marijuana, hollywood, internet, drug ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california, utah
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
existentialism, private detective, self discovery, jealousy, making love, philosophy, relationships, investigation, environmental activism, meditation, buddhism, multiple storylines ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But he gets kicked out of his apartment and is forced to move in with his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, not serious, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
stoner, marijuana, weed, geek, stupidity, adolescence, workplace, drug, dumb, caught masturbating, cannabis, sexual humor ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events ...
Style:
black comedy, absurd, funny, neo noir, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bowling, dialogue, mistaken identity, slacker, hippie, weed, marijuana, great dialogue, laziness, dream, twists and turns, heart attack ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place:
los angeles, iraq, america, arizona, usa ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he ...
Style:
independent film, talky, witty, colorful, mumblecore ...
Plot:
smoking, culture clash, friendship, screwball, rock, tobacco, friends, family relations, couples, social relations, urban, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
306K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, laugh out loud, satirical, funny ...
Audience:
date night, kids, adult
Plot:
workplace, dark humor, office, computer, friendship, satire, embezzlement, corporate world, rebelliousness, waitress, obnoxious boss, workplace situations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, y2k
Place:
texas, dallas texas, austin texas, usa, mexico
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, sex comedy, funny, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
porn, sex scene, sex, porn actor, porn star, strip club, female nudity, filmmaking, sex worker, nudity, best friends in love, stripper ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
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Story:
Clerks is an American animated sitcom based on Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy of the same name. It was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by ...
Style:
adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satire, friendship, escapades, save the day, buddies, master villain, everyday life, disorder, partner, goofy hero, workplace, millionaire ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
920K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, cult classic, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
buddies, party, bachelor party, buddy, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, friendship between men, hung over, friends, memory loss, road trip, stupidity ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, iran, america, north america ...
Similarity:
50%
324K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to ...
Style:
funny, romantic, sweet, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night ...
Plot:
wedding, best friend, friendship, female friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding dress, friends, sex scene, bachelorette party, fear of commitment, single woman, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, milwaukee wisconsin, paris france, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Style:
surreal, funny, stylized, touching, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
video store, jazz, filmmaking, nothing goes right, eccentricity, friendship, creativity, dialogue, art, sabotage, buddy, workplace ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
Style:
surreal, talky, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, losing-it hero, car salesman, lone hero, adaptation, surrealism, self discovery, success, small town life, small town, couple relations, against the rules ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
indiana, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
686K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
Style:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, teen, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
high school, teenager, nerd, adolescence, coming of age, youth, teenage life, dumb, loss of virginity, friendship, bromance, sex ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
Similarity:
29%
116K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic ...
Plot:
dark humor, multiple storylines, curses spells and rituals, workplace situations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, gangster, lifestyle, supernatural ability, workplace, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
america, los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
15%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style:
teen, cult classic, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, adolescence, teenager, friendship, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, party, last day of school, bullying, student, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, seattle, usa ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, school, teacher, teenage girl, teen angst, teenage angst, teenage boy, rebel, skipping school ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, north america, california
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the 1970s, and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, spoof, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
journalism, workplace, battle of the sexes, stupidity, satire, sexism, farce, nervous breakdown, news anchor, cat, rivalry, friendship ...
Time:
70s, year 2004, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, north america, san diego california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After ...
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, absurd, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
road trip, dumb, dimwit, stupidity, buddies, toilet humor, parakeet, odd couple, friendship, bromance, misfit, travel ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
utah, rhode island, colorado, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
26%
256K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Style:
funny, humorous, sex comedy, laugh out loud, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
college, party, college life, public nudity, friendship, caught cheating, fraternity, beer, youth, male nudity, college student, campus ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, san diego california, los angeles, usa ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him ...
Style:
controversial, humorous, absurd, parody, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satire, dark humor, racism, stupidity, travel, culture clash, toilet humor, stereotypes, road trip, dumb, fish out of water, masturbation ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, kazakhstan, usa, los angeles, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their ...
Style:
rom com, hilarious, humorous, teen, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school reunion, women, high school, friendship, bullying, stereotypes, switching roles, female friendship, love and romance, self discovery, stupidity, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1997, year 1987
Place:
california, arizona, usa, los angeles, beverly hills ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, light ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, funeral, dark humor, farce, secret, male nudity, sarcasm, corpse, novelist, secret lover, public nudity, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
25%
112K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace romance, college, waiter, staff, buddies, prank, wooing, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
13%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style:
independent film, cerebral, philosophical, satirical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anarchist, slacker, subculture, coming of age, anarchism, philosophy, loser, one day, existentialism, twenty something, teenager, hangout ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, dallas texas ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style:
funny, atmospheric, hilarious, feel good, clever ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
friendship between men, friendship, buddies, roommate, argument, group of friends, depression, roommate roommate relationship, friends who live together, bromance, divorce, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, tokyo, seattle
Similarity:
25%
188K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend.
Style:
road movie, sexy, teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night ...
Plot:
road trip, college, sex, sex scene, nothing goes right, high school, foot fetish, sex tape, stupidity, cross country, loss of virginity, nerd ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, austin texas, new york state, boston, texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the ...
Style:
mumblecore, sincere, humorous, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
musician, friendship, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, musician's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, human nature, artists and showbiz, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style:
funny, inspirational, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
workplace, career, computers and web, starting over, new job, rivalry, boss and employee, sarcasm, middle aged, lifestyle change, fish out of water, programmer ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, north america
Similarity:
24%
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