Movies like Clerks 1994

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Clerks (1994)
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Clerks (1994)
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: black and white, funny, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, witty, philosophical, surreal, entirely dialogue ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: friendship, workplace, jay and silent bob, everyday life, weed, slacker, sarcasm, loser, stoner, one day, hipster, redemption, bromance, job, supermarket, coming of age, youth culture, satire, friends, couple relations, cat, toilet humor, night, clerk, insult ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993, 1990s
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
Keyword: reboot, oldies, partners, reading, watching a movie, pants, video, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and funny films with plots about friendship, friends, stoner, buddies, profanity, disorder and teenager mostly in Comedy, Romance and Animation genres. Some movies like Clerks: Mallrats (1995), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Office Space (1999), Blue in the Face (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Clerks II (2006)
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, funny, witty, cult classic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, workplace, jay and silent bob, masturbation, geek, bromance, voyeur, fast food restaurant, slacker, everyday life, human relationship, weed ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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100%
 7.0
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Mallrats (1995)
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, youth, weed, superhero, coming of age, one day, love and romance, bare butt, videotaped sex, dumped by girlfriend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, minnesota, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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: weed, road trip, jay and silent bob, filmmaking, hollywood, internet, hitchhiker, drug, stoner, chase, marijuana, monkey actor ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, california, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
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: surreal, philosophical, psychological, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: existentialism, private detective, self discovery, jealousy, investigation, relationships, buddhism, suburbs, multiple storylines, escapades, environmental activism, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Office Space (1999)
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: black comedy, dark comedy, funny, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids, adult
Plot: workplace, office, dark humor, corporate world, computer, rebelliousness, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, business, boss, embezzlement, satire ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, y2k
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, dallas texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Blue in the Face (1995)
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, family relations, couples, social relations, friends, parents and children, social differences ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grandma's Boy (2006)
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, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: stoner, weed, marijuana, geek, stupidity, adolescence, roommate, workplace, drug, older woman younger man relationship, party, eviction ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Hangover (2009)
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, entertaining, buddy comedy, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: buddies, party, bachelor party, friendship between men, comedy of errors, memory loss, weirdo, nothing goes right, hung over, friendship, friends, wedding ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, america, iran, north america ...
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
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: sex comedy, funny, feel good, sexy, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: porn, sex, filmmaking, nudity, best friends in love, best friend, videotaped sex, porn actor, pornographic video, high school, strong sexual content, adult filmmaking ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Clerks (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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: humorous, adult cartoon, adult animation, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: friendship, satire, escapades, save the day, master villain, buddies, everyday life, disorder, partner, workplace, goofy hero, workplace situations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Bridesmaids (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
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, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night ...
Plot: wedding, female friendship, friendship, best friend, rivalry, wedding preparations and rituals, fear of commitment, sex scene, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, women, uninhibited rivalry, single woman ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, paris france, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Superbad (2007)
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, hilarious, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, coming of age, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, dumb, friendship, loss of virginity, bromance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Dazed and Confused (1993)
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: feel good, talky, teen, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, weed, party, bullying, drug, summer ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: texas, seattle, midwest, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
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, hilarious, absurd ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: journalism, workplace, battle of the sexes, farce, stupidity, journalist, sexism, friendship, rivalry, new job, nervous breakdown, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 2004, 20th century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
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30%
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Waiting... (2005)
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: funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace, workplace romance, college, staff, prank, buddies, workplace situations, wooing ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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15%
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Old School (2003)
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, hilarious, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: college, college life, friendship, beer, fraternity, public nudity, youth, caught cheating, high school, disorder, college student, stoner ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Dumb and Dumber (1994)
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: humorous, road movie, absurd, funny, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: road trip, dumb, dimwit, buddies, stupidity, buddy, parakeet, toilet humor, friendship, odd couple, misfit, bromance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: utah, rhode island, colorado, usa, mississippi ...
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29%
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Project X (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Style: teen sex comedy, humorous, funny, not serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: party, high school, teenager, adolescence, youth, when the parents are away, teenage life, student, friends, popularity, buddies, birthday party ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
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: humorous, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: women, high school, fashion, friendship, high school reunion, teenager, bullying, stereotypes, female friendship, switching roles, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles, beverly hills, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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: mockumentary, humorous, absurd, controversial, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satire, racism, travel, culture clash, dark humor, road trip, stereotypes, stupidity, toilet humor, fish out of water, male pubic hair, irreverent ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, kazakhstan, usa, alabama, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Slacker (1990)
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, philosophical, surreal, cult classic, entirely dialogue ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, philosophy, slacker, loser, one day, dream, existentialism, anarchism, subculture, twenty something, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, barcelona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
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, slapstick, tragicomedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, secret, sarcasm, gay, adultery, british, multiple storylines, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
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: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bowling, mistaken identity, weed, dialogue, slacker, hippie, marijuana, great dialogue, dream, drug, stoner, nihilism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, year 1991
Place: los angeles, america, iraq, arizona, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Mutual Appreciation (2005)
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, touching, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician, friendship, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, couple relations, musician's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, artists and showbiz, human nature, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Step Brothers (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, hilarious, stylized, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: friendship, dysfunctional family, slacker, buddy, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, divorce, family relations, brother brother relationship, friendship between men, father son relationship, man child ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 284K
Scary Movie (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including Scream, ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, slasher ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: satire, youth, adolescence, sarcasm, stupidity, absurd humor, graphic violence, creativity, serial killer, high school, dark humor, dumb ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 1K
Film Geek (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The story of Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk who gets fired from his job and becomes a sensation as an online film critic.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: obsession, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, workplace, disorder, looking for love, workplace situations, workplace romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, obsessed fan, expert ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 240K
Role Models (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look ...
Style: funny, hilarious, entertaining, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: community service, lifestyle change, dimwit, friendship, adolescence, friends, teaching the ways of the world, youth, character change, stoner, young heroes, farce ...
Time: year 2008, medieval times, 21st century
Place: los angeles, middle east, california, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Animal House (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Style: humorous, funny, light, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: college, beer, female nudity, marijuana, party, youth, sorority, revenge, cheerleader, overweight, lust, fraternity ...
Time: year 1962, year 1978, 20th century, 60s
Place: pennsylvania
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29%
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