Movies like Dance 'Til Dawn

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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen comedy
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, teenage love, school, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, family relations, parents and children, family life, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, nothing goes right, disorder, couple relations, party, high school, high school life, teenager, dance, video store, friends, store, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy
Keyword: watching a movie, visit, challenge, break-up

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Most similar movies to Dance 'Til Dawn

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about youth, high school, teenage life, coming of age, love and romance, high school life and friends mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Dance 'Til Dawn: She's Out of Control (1989), Secret Admirer (1985), Hot Pursuit (1987), The New Guy (2002), Angus (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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She's Out of Control (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage daughter, makeover, coming of age, father daughter relationship, single father, teenager, teenage love, love and romance, family relations, child as adult, dating, single parent ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Secret Admirer (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high-school heartthrob Michael receives an unsigned love letter, he assumes it's from knock-out prom queen Deborah Anne instead of pretty honor student Toni. And when Michael accidentally misplaces the letter, the juicy jottings soon make ...
Style: teen sex comedy, light, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, high school, love and romance, love, school, secret admirer, summer vacation, summer, farce, fraternity, voyeur, relationships ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fashion, teenager, mischievous children, coming of age, children, high school, babysitter, dysfunctional family, childhood, crime gone awry, twists and turns, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he ...
Style: feel good, road movie, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, chase, boat, rescue, nothing goes right, disorder, friendship, youth, teenager, coming of age, prisoner, airport ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The New Guy (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Style: feel good, funny, teen, hilarious, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, high school, bullying, friendship, starting over, stereotypes, high school life, cheerleader, teenage love, misfit, cheerleading, youth ...
Time: y2k, 2000s
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Angus (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, teenager, high school, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 125K
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, teenage life, high school life, youth, self discovery, teenage girl, teenage love, first love, female nudity, teen romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 18K
Sleepover (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As their first year of high school looms ahead, best friends Julie, Hannah, Yancy and Farrah have one last summer sleepover. Little do they know they're about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Desperate to shed their nerdy status, they ...
Style: teen, funny, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, teenage girl, teenage life, friendship between girls, slumber party, high school life, popular girl, love and romance, teenage love, teachers and students ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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American Pie (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all ...
Style: teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, adolescence, party, virginity, masturbation, high school, looking for sex, loss of virginity, nudity, teenage sexuality, teenage life ...
Time: y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.3
 507
Crash Course (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, driving school, driver, taxi, car crash, stoner, power relations, urban ghetto, misfit, dedicated educator, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, youth, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Hollywood Knights (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
Style: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, humorous, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, cheerleader, drag racing, car, high school, culture clash, revenge, night, exodus, racing, truck ...
Time: 60s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s, year 1965
Place: beverly hills, vietnam, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Just One of the Girls (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, teenage life, cross dressing, high school, gender bending, youth, switching roles, cheerleading, friendship, college, teenage love, high school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
License to Drive (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to ...
Style: road movie, light, funny, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: high school, teenager, childhood, underage drinking, love and romance, nothing goes right, family relations, teenage love, high school life, friendship, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Trippin' (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His ...
Style: hood, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, prom, youth, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, college, college life, black, ghetto, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.1
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Book of Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, high school, teenage love, friendship, fish out of water, youth, self discovery, couple relations, fall in love, friends, college life, college ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.2
 675
The Weekend (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the spirit of "Superbad" and "Dazed and Confused," "The Weekend" relishes the moments that made being a teenager so excruciatingly painful and fantastic. Over the course of a single weekend, various teenagers ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: buddies, love and romance, lifestyle, high school life, couples, prank, youth, college, teenage love, teenage life, college life, nightlife ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Worst. Prom. Ever. (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Clark has planned the perfect prom for his girlfriend Sharon. His plans are hijacked when Sharon invites her two best girlfriends, Neve and Heather, and their dates along on the perfect evening, but things only get worse. When all three are deserted ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, love and romance, prom, memory loss, danger, save the day, womanizer, nothing goes right, teenager, couples, disaster, high school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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No Pain, No Gain (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
Style: sincere, touching, humorous, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, couples, family relations, youth, nothing goes right, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenage crush, conflict, masturbation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: disorder, misfit, wooing, high school, win over, nothing goes right, youth, social relations, coming of age, girl, college, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
All I Wanna Do (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike ...
Style: feel good, light, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, teenager, high school, youth, gender, teenage life, teenage love, battle of the sexes, bullying, friendship, rebelliousness ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1998, year 1963
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.4
 428
The Graduates (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, captivating
Plot: beach, high school student, satire, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, buddies, young lovers, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.3
 848
We the Party (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, light, scenic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, dating, friendship, high school, prom, teenage love, hip hop, lifestyle, society, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Liverpool Goalie (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Jo is a smart thinker of a guy, and has a very vivid imagination, but is bothered by his fellow classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. Still he tries to cope with this difficult time in life. He's doing the ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, witty
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: soccer, friends, teenage love, friendship, love and romance, power relations, social relations, dark humor, high school, high school life, school, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.9
 417
The Prankster (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: self discovery, high school life, youth, teenage life, unfulfillment, society, friendship, couples, high school, lifestyle, love and romance, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.1
 364
Acceptance (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: college, college life, family relations, teenage life, student life, optimism, youth, parents and children, obsessive quest, campus, school, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
General Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, summer school, youth, high school life, social relations, parents and children, college, ambition, friendship, rivalry, fall in love, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, youth, disorder, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage love, fish out of water, odd couple, culture clash, party, prediction, hindu ...
Place: texas, usa, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
 64K
Wild Child (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Rebellious 16 year old Poppy from Mailibu is sent to an English boarding school. Realising her Father isn't coming back to rescue her she tries to get expelled.
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, light, sweet ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot: boarding school, teenager, school, teenage girl, youth, teenage life, girls' boarding school, love and romance, popularity, friendship, rebellious daughter, girls' school ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s
Place: england, europe, malibu california, yorkshire, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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