Movies like High School U.S.A.

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High School U.S.A. (1983)
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High School U.S.A. (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in a senior high school class, J.J. (Michael J. Fox) pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, school, high school, love, bullying, school bully, teen angst, rivalry, cheerleader, school janitor, teenage love, island, youth, college, friends, misfit, love and romance, stoner, high school life, teenage life, vengeance, opposites attract, social misfits, lifestyle, social relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: colorado, midwest
Keyword: partners, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about youth, teenage life, high school, high school life, college, teenager and friends mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like High School U.S.A.: Senior Skip Day (2008), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Porky's Revenge (1985), Bart Got a Room (2008), Wild Child (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Senior Skip Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adam Harris, a semi-lame senior, is head over heels in love with Cara. Unfortunately she is the most popular girl in school. On the one day of the year that he could actually have a chance, senior skip day, he screws it all up by accidentally ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, party, school, youth, buddies, disorder, looking for sex, teacher, escapades, college, nightlife, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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 ⇓
100%
Porky's Revenge (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game since he has bet on the opposing team.
Style: teen sex comedy, sexy, sexual, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: bare breasts, public nudity, cheerleader, sex, teenager, voyeur, high school, nudity, male nudity, sea, loser, sexuality ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bart Got a Room (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Everyone is searching for love in director Brian Hecker's semi-autobiographical story. Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prom, cheerleader, teenage love, wooing, love and romance, looking for sex, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, friends, self discovery, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
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The Outcasts (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, teenage life, society, misfit, school, teenager, best friend, bullying, rivalry, social misfits, friends, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Dirty Deeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds, an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed by the Homecoming banquet at 9 a.m.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, teenager, bully, cheerleader, stereotypes, friends, rivalry, college, teenage sex, lifestyle, coming of age, prank ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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%
 6.0
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Poison Ivy (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: summer camp, camp counselor, nurse, teenage sex, teenager, poet, summer, love, island, disorder, chaos and mayhem, impossible love ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Prom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At “Prom,” every couple has a story and no two are exactly alike. As the big dance approaches for Nova Prescott, it’s a battle of wills as she finds herself drawn to the guy who gets in the way of her perfect prom. Fellow seniors Mei and Tyler ...
Style: feel good, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot: prom, teenage love, high school, teenager, teen romance, couples, unlikely couple, wooing, friendship, opposites attract, teenage life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sex comedy, funny, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: college, nerd, sex, sorority, bullying, prank, high school, youth, underdog, cheerleader, teenage girl, college freshman ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: usa, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Up the Academy (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of ...
Style: humorous, spoof, sex comedy, anime, not serious
Audience: teens
Plot: school, high school, looking for sex, teenager, gay, partner, stoner, high school life, teenage life, teachers and students, boarding school life, college life ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The nerds are now in control of the university, as a result of Lewis Skolnick and the rest's actions in the two previous movies. A new generation of sportsmen arrive, however, determined on winning the school back. The principle, himself an ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sex, nerd, love, school, farce, cheerleader, power relations, friends, disorder, social relations, campaign, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the ...
Style: funny, not serious, slapstick, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, buddies, best friend, social misfits, goofy hero, partner, disorder, cheerleader, misfit, high school, buddy, dumb ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2003, 20th century, year 1969
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Kids in America (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, high school, school, sexual relations, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, high school life, power relations, hopes, society, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Who's Your Daddy? (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, not serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sexual humor, teenage love, fish out of water, lifestyle, rise to the top, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, love and romance, youth, disorder, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s
Place: ohio, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Cheats (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenage life, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mean Girls (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Style: feel good, teen, light, funny, witty ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage girl, teenage life, adolescence, fish out of water, high school life, bullying, bad girl, popularity, jealousy, female friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: africa, illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
Three O'Clock High (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A high school nerd, Jerry Mitchell (Siemaszko) is assigned to write a piece for the school paper about new boy Buddy Revell (Tyson), who is rumored to be a psychopathic nutcase. When Jerry accidentally touches Buddy, he says that they must fight in ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, entertaining, clever, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, bullying, teenager, friendship, juvenile delinquent, panic, psychopath, courage, unlikely hero, teenage protagonist, fistfight, showdown ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ 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%
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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
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Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college ...
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, underdog, coming of age, teenager, revenge, student athlete, love ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, alabama, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, teen, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
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Time: 2000s, 80s
Place: antwerp, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mean Girls 2 (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around a new high school student, Jo (Meaghan Martin) , who agrees to befriend an outcast, Abby (Jennifer Stone), at the urging of Abby's wealthy father in exchange for paying all of Jo's costs for the college of her ...
Style: sexy, teen, feel good, witty, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect -- and, of course, if ...
Style: humorous, sex comedy, sexual, cult classic, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, beach, teenager, sex, island, revenge, defector, frame up, athlete, party, fraternity, love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Expelled (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, disgusting, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenage life, prankster, coming of age, high school life, youth, friends, school expulsion, college, power relations, teenage girl, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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