Movies like Harold
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Harold (2008)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, indie film, creepy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, loser, high school, teenage love, teenage life, misfit, high school life, society, social misfits, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, teachers and students, intergenerational friendship, bullying, friendship, friendship between men, outsider, humiliation, public humiliation, friends, coming of age, race, teenager, revenge, bully ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Harold
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about youth, high school, teenage life, high school life, friends, coming of age and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Harold: Cheats (2002), The Night Before the Exams (2006), Campus Confidential (2005), Queen Sized (2008), The Liverpool Goalie (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, cons and scams, teenage life, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
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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, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, buddies, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
School... there is the popular crowd. Teachers favor some students over others. Because of this, Violet decides to start a school paper, which exposes many embarrassing secrets of popular kids who think they run the campus.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, high school life, social relations, coming of age, teenage love, teenage life, social misfits, misfit, lifestyle, misfit partners, friendship, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, overweight man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, humorous, touching, semi serious, witty
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
dark humor, soccer, teenage love, friendship, love and romance, friends, school, high school, high school life, ambition, power relations, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, high school, single parent, high school life, family relations, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, youth, misfit, teenage life, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
melbourne, australia
Similarity:
100%
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, couples, friendship, high school, social misfits, love and romance, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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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, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, youth, teenage life, misfit, school, best friend, bullying, social misfits, social relations, friends, prank, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
dating, youth, high school, friendship, prom, teenage love, hip hop, society, lifestyle, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, coming of age, prankster, teenage life, school expulsion, high school life, friends, youth, college, power relations, bare chested male, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, true love, friendship, uninhibited rivalry, buddies, rivalry, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
nothing goes right, high school, misfit, disorder, win over, wooing, youth, social relations, cheerleader, american football, coming of age, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rebellious teen butts heads with the teachers at an all-girl charm school in Mexico City.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
high school, cruelty, teenage life, popular girl, best friend, campaign, power relations, society, social misfits, politics, teachers and students, friend ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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, high school life, youth, social relations, parents and children, college, ambition, friendship, fall in love, high school, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, teen sex comedy, humorous, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, cheerleading, cross dressing, teenage life, high school, gender bending, high school life, switching roles, youth, making love, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, high school, school, teenage life, sexual relations, friendship, lifestyle, high school life, power relations, hopes, fighting the system, gender ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, stylized, humorous, predictable ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
high school, friendship, friends, contests and competitions, rivalry, birthday party, ambition, lifestyle, youth, couples, love, wealth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
My Life as Liz is a mockumentary style American television series that centers on the life of Liz Lee, a misfit high-school senior living in small town Texas. The series debuted on MTV on January 18, 2010.
The first season finale aired on March 8, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, friendship, youth, social relations, best friend, teenage life, society, high school life, family relations, parents and children, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, teenager, small town, adolescence, election, bullying, high school life, nerd, loser, bully, salesman ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa, north america, utah ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, driving school, taxi, driver, car crash, stoner, power relations, urban ghetto, society, dedicated educator, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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, nothing goes right, satire, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, buddies, youth, young lovers, love and romance, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, parody, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
high school, friendship, bullying, starting over, stereotypes, stupidity, high school life, cheerleading, cheerleader, teenage love, teenager, goofy hero ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 80s
Place:
austin texas, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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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, humorous, period piece, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, gender, teenage life, teenage love, high school, battle of the sexes, school, youth, bullying, girls' school, friendship between girls ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1998, year 1963, 80s
Place:
new york state, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during the late '50s which centers around the high school life of a group of teens that have to deal with racial tensions at their interracial vocational high school.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school, false confession, social relations, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, gang, coming of age, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 50s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
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, girls' night, date night
Plot:
lgbt, gay teenager, high school, gay lead character, coming of age, gays and lesbians, bully, gay, friendship, misfit, teenage love, teenage life ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
Place:
antwerp, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, buddies, lifestyle, youth, battle of the sexes, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
youth, hardcase students, school, dedicated educator, fighting the system, against the odds, misfit, idealism, society, teenage life, teachers and students, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
200
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
High school students Dylan Roberts and Ashley Gordon make the transition from being just friends to dating, while dealing with a whole range of real teen issues of family, friends and relationships.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, high school, teen angst, high school life, high school student, teen social issues ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Similarity:
30%
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