Movies like Empire Records

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Empire Records (1995)
 6.7
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Empire Records (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
Style: teen, funny, cult classic, aesthetic, inspirational, romantic, epic, serious, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, music, rock and roll, workplace, rock, high school, teenager, sexuality, promiscuous woman, sex, teenage sex, nymphet, hipster, youth culture, woman peeing, dancing, friendship, rock music, stoner, drug addiction, pop star, strong female character, teen angst, fashion, musician ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 1990s
Place: atlantic city new jersey, seattle, atlantic city, new jersey
Keyword: partners, challenge

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Most similar movies to Empire Records

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous and semi serious films with plots about teenager, youth, coming of age, high school, love, love and romance and friendship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Empire Records: Singles (1992), Mallrats (1995), High Fidelity (2000), The Breakfast Club (1985), Adventureland (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.7
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Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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100%
 7.0
 128K
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%
 7.4
 189K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, breakup, rock, musician's life, love and romance, musician, rock and roll, character study, self discovery, love story, love, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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%
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 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 ...
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83%
 6.6
 53K
Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, love, coming of age, friendship, best friends in love, graduation, roommate, unlikely friendships, slacker, best friend, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: usa, seattle, chicago, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ ...
Style: teen, cult classic, independent film, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: radio, high school, teenager, coming of age, suicide, rebellion, rock, youth, rock and roll, school, misfit, teen angst ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: arizona, seattle, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 38K
Grease 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, romantic, period piece, retro ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: dancing, high school, dance, motorcycle, cheerleader, music, teen romance, teenage girl, teenager, biker, love, bowling ...
Time: year 1982, 60s, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus beings an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while ...
Style: feel good, teen, romantic comedy, funny, independent film ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, teenage love, youth, nightlife, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, love, high school, love story, unlikely couple, homosexual ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.9
 4K
Satisfaction (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, coming of age, music, teenager, teen angst, friends, teenage life, resort, teenage love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.9
 5K
For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 16K
Down to You (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a ...
Style: feel good, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: college, college life, fall in love, teenager, friendship, love, lifestyle, couple relations, youth, love affair, women, relationships ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, san francisco, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Electric Dreams (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with ...
Style: offbeat, surreal, cult classic, rom com, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: artificial intelligence, computer, internet, robot, cello, blonde girl, hacker, technology, love, blonde, memory, architect ...
Place: san francisco, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 33K
SLC Punk! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style: realistic, philosophical, harsh, teen, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, subculture, rebelliousness, rock, self destructing, coming of age, drug overdose, rebellion, friendship, drug, punk rock, rock and roll ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: utah, north dakota, seattle, england, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.9
 100K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, nebraska, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.9
 292K
Almost Famous (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style: sentimental, road movie, feel good, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, musician, on the road, rock music, music, rock, musician's life, fame, road trip, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, new york, seattle, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.9
 243K
Clueless (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give ...
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, light, rom com ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, fashion, youth, teenage life, couples, opposites attract, teen romance, love and romance, popularity, teenage love, enemies to lovers ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Last American Virgin (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, friendship, sex, high school, prostitute, sex scene, looking for sex, contests and competitions, teenage love, adolescence, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: teenager, youth, high school, dream come true, teenage sex, high school life, student, porn star, fall in love, virginity, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, las vegas, usa, los angeles, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, couples, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, pretend relationship, friendship, popularity, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 53K
Footloose (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, dance, teenage love, small town, teenager, dancer's life, music, love and romance, love, dancer, youth, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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High School Musical (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: high school, music, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, basketball, friendship, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, teenager, dancing ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style: feel good, teen, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: high school, prom, teenage love, teenager, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenage girl, buddies, dancing ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.7
 23K
Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style: grindhouse, teen, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, high school, music, rock, teenager, punk, punk rock, school, youth, rebellion, adolescence, rock music ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.7
 3K
Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, musician's life, innocence lost, groupie, young lovers, best friend, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, music band, suburbs ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Detroit Rock City (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's ...
Style: feel good, road movie, funny, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, virginity, heavy metal, coming of age, youth, friendship, teenager, high school, road trip, music, stoner, stereotypes ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: michigan, ohio, detroit, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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