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
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, friendship, friendship between men, outsider, humiliation, public humiliation, bullying, friends, coming of age, race, teenager, revenge, bully ...
Time:
contemporary
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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, friends, high school life, coming of age and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Harold: Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Hating Alison Ashley (2005), Cheats (2002), The Outcasts (2017), The Night Before the Exams (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, feel good, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
small town, high school, teenager, friendship, election, adolescence, youth, high school life, bullying, american football, teenage life, eccentric family ...
Time:
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Place:
idaho, usa, utah, mexico
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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, humorous, sentimental, semi serious
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, high school, single parent, high school life, power relations, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, youth, misfit, teenage life, sister sister relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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100%
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:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, cons and scams, teenage life, partners, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
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100%
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, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
rivalry, best friends, youth, misfit, society, teenage life, teenager, school, friends, social misfits, social relations, prank ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Films like Mean Girls
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, high school, friendship, dating, prom, teenage love, hip hop, society, lifestyle, coming of age, black cast, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
disorder, misfit, high school, nothing goes right, win over, wooing, youth, social relations, coming of age, college, girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, high school life, social relations, teenage life, teenage love, coming of age, suburbs, friendship, misfit partners, lifestyle, misfit, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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, taxi, driving school, car accident, urban ghetto, stoners, power relations, dedicated educator, hardcase students, misfit, society, youth ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, funny, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
high school, teenage life, prankster, coming of age, high school life, friends, youth, school expulsion, college, power relations, teenage girl, badass ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy, captivating
Plot:
beach, satire, teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, looking for love, best friends, youth, love and romance, buddies, nothing goes right, young lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, uplifting, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friends, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, best friends, friends, friendship, true love, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school, social relations, friends, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, lifestyle, society, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, gang ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
high school, friendship, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, birthday party, ambition, lifestyle, youth, couples, wealth, love ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
high school, popular girl, cruelty, teenage life, power relations, campaign, social misfits, society, politics, best friends, teachers and students, friend ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, teenage life, sexual relations, friendship, lifestyle, high school life, school, power relations, society, fighting the system, gender ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage life, gender bending, fall in love, cross dressing, hidden identity, switching roles, youth, cheerleading, high school, friendship, college, high school life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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, realistic
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 ⇓
47%
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:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, prom, youth, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, college, college life, gangsters, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Breakfast Club similar movies
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
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, buddies, youth, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, realistic, queer cinema, teen comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay teenager, high school, coming out, gay, lgbt, school, gays and lesbians, bully, friendship, gay interest, lgbtq, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
antwerp, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, teenage life, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, rebelliousness, misfit ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, youth, eccentric family, graduation, teenage life, teenage boy, hippie, high school, boy, self discovery ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, buddies, battle of the sexes, peer pressure, sexual relations, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Movies like The New Guy
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, humorous, witty, realistic, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, social relations, youth, friendship, parents and children, best friends, teenage life, high school life, society, power relations, family relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, older woman younger man sex, best friends, love and romance, teenage love, eccentric family, society, family problems, misfit, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
50s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, dark humor, power relations, social relations, school, high school, high school life, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy
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, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, youth, friends, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, coming of age, woman, small town life, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
funny, feel good, humorous, parody, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
high school, teenager, teenage love, starting over, bullying, friendship, stereotypes, cheerleader, high school life, cheerleading, buddies, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
austin texas, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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