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How I Got Into College (1989)
 5.7
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How I Got Into College (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of going to their alma mater of the University of Michigan, while Marlon fights his grades and SAT scores.
Style: humorous, romantic, entertaining, satirical, light, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: college, high school, coming of age, teenager, justice, police investigation, twists and turns, happy ending, mentor, multiple storylines, stereotypes, adaptation, storytelling, teenage love, love and romance, looking for love, partner, college life, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, teachers and students, student life, high school life, teenage life, ambition ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: holland, europe, california
Keyword: partners, dreams

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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, love and romance, coming of age, high school, high school life and teenager mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like How I Got Into College: Slap Her, She's French! (2002), Loser (2000), She's All That (1999), Summer School (1987), The DUFF (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Saved by the Bell: The College Years is a sequel to the Saved by the Bell series which ran from September 14, 1993 to February 8, 1994, lasting one season. It was the third incarnation of the franchise. It is also the only series of the franchise to ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, student life, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, teachers and students, youth, coming of age, best friend, university ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Slap Her, She's French! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: high school, cheerleader, culture clash, cheerleading, fish out of water, youth, unfulfilled love, high school life, contests and competitions, small town life, lifestyle, young lovers ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: texas, france, austin texas, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 30K
Loser (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: college, college student, loser, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, teenager, friendship, opposites attract, naivete, nerd, coming of age, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 103K
She's All That (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, opposites attract, youth, teen romance, adolescence, bet, high school life, fall in love, young love, teenage girl, teenage love ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.6
 22K
Summer School (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with ...
Style: funny, laugh out loud, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: teacher, summer, summer school, teenager, high school, teacher student relationship, teaching, teenage girl, gym teacher, dyslexia, underage drinking, chainsaw ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 101K
The DUFF (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, high school life, coming of age, school, adolescence, friendship, teenage life, stereotypes, college, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.2
 20K
Superstar (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies, and her conversations with her only ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cheerleader, school, high school, catholic school, happy ending, teenage life, contests and competitions, love and romance, nerdy girl, fish out of water, unfulfilled love, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
43%
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Making the Grade (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, ...
Style: funny, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedy of errors, friendship, justice, college life, teenage life, hidden identity, teenage love, social differences, school, teenager, pretending to be someone else, jealousy ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, europe, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 11K
Picture This (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bookish and unpopular Mandy finds her luck finally changing when Drew, the school hottie, invites her to the year's biggest party. But with being grounded and Drew's ex-girlfriend bent on thwarting her, Mandy may be destined to remain a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, high school life, love and romance, teenage love, wooing, high school hunk, teenage life, youth, nightlife, lifestyle, family relations, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.7
 938
Joy of Sex (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Teenager Leslie Hindenberg, mistakenly believing she has just weeks to live, decides she will lose her virginity before she dies.
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, erotic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: loss of virginity, high school, looking for sex, sex scene, youth, teenage love, teenage life, coming of age, lifestyle, couples, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 811
Schools Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June 1990, a large provincial town. It's the last day of class before the baccalaureate: a small group of graduates happily leaves high school - In the ambient euphoria, Lucas empties his bag: without mince words, he says out loud to his ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience: teens
Plot: teachers and students, youth, love affair, lifestyle, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, college, teacher, power relations, high school, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 20K
Get Over It (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring ...
Style: romantic comedy, feel good, romantic, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, shakespeare, fall in love, teenager, teenage life, love triangle, mentor, happy ending, adolescence, underdog, high school life, school ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 1K
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 ⇓
42%
 5.6
 7K
Trojan War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into many obstacles along the way, while not knowing his best friend, Leah is in love with him.
Style: hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: best friends in love, college, love, teenage love, teenage life, student, party, high school, teenager, friends to lovers, road trip, gang ...
Time: 90s, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
 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 ⇓
42%
 5.3
 1K
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 ⇓
41%
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Life As We Know It (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: See life through the eyes of Dino, Ben, and Jonathan -- three teens experiencing the joys and pains of growing up. Although different in many ways, these guys have one main thing in common -- women. Together, their attitudes about women are ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage love, teenage life, teachers and students, youth, infidelity, masturbation, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, parents and children, sexual relations ...
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Private School (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, sex, voyeurism, girls' boarding school, high school, female pubic hair, cheerleader, friends, voyeur, female nudity, college, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.0
 5K
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 ⇓
41%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, teen, feel good, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, high school life, teenager, puberty ...
Time: 2000s
Place: england, brighton, europe, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Fugit) has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, epic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: looking for sex, college, fall in love, lifestyle, college life, fish out of water, teenage life, disorder, buddies, goofy hero, youth, obsessive quest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
Happy Together (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, ...
Style: romantic, melancholic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, pretending to be gay, love, roommate, teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, university, college roommate, aspiring actor, gay subtext, dormitory ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
 6.8
 73K
The First Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 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 ⇓
39%
 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 ⇓
39%
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