Movies like Meatballs
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Meatballs (1979)
26K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Style:
funny, humorous, light, entertaining, grindhouse, teen sex comedy, feel good, captivating, raunchy comedy, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, coming of age, campfire story, camp, rivalry, youth, outcast, mentor, camping, friends, rich and poor, mischievous children, friendship, nerd, childhood, high school, lifeguard, prank, underdog, flirting, summer, teenager, running, beach, runaway ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Meatballs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and funny films with plots about friends, teenager, youth, disorder, buddies, high school and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Meatballs: Porky's Revenge (1985), Billy Madison (1995), The Great Outdoors (1988), Happy Campers (2001), Grown Ups 2 (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ricky is the hottest water-ski instructor around and he has just be rehired by his former employer/camp to whip up attendance. But the camp is in serious financial trouble and the owner of a rival, more popular, camp wants to buy them out. Therefore ...
Style:
sex comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
public nudity, rivalry, summer camp, stupidity, camp, romantic rivalry, grandfather granddaughter relationship, female nudity, blonde, voyeur, water skiing, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sexual, raunchy comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
cheerleader, public nudity, bare breasts, nude young male, sexpot, voyeur, sex, teenager, nudity, high school, male nudity, bare butt ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, year 1955, 50s
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, manly
Plot:
stupidity, graduation, teacher, elementary school, prank, immaturity, bullying, happy ending, teachers and students, high school, dumb, party ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, slapstick, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
camp, family vacation, bear, summer vacation, wilderness, teenage girl, brother brother relationship, holiday, father daughter relationship, rivalry, father son relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, minnesota, usa, wisconsin, canada ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sexual, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
summer camp, sexual awakening, skinny dipping, girl, loss of virginity, camp counselor, youth, friendship, coming of age, love, unrequited love, lesbian sex ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are ...
Style:
humorous, hilarious, funny, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
friendship, stupidity, adulthood, friends, party, sexual attraction, family relations, unlikely friendships, midlife crisis, parenthood, buddy, ex classmate ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located ...
Style:
humorous, raunchy comedy, teen sex comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
summer camp, teenager, rivalry, buddies, friendly alien, male nudity, alien, nerd, boxing match, supernatural power, teenage boy, camp counselor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
481K
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:
teen, feel good, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, high school, teenage girl, teenage life, fish out of water, adolescence, high school life, bullying, popularity, jealousy, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, africa, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
Style:
grindhouse, teen sex comedy, humorous, sex comedy, raunchy comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
cheerleader, coming of age, drag racing, teenager, car, high school, culture clash, night, revenge, halloween, two sisters, cruise ...
Time:
60s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
beverly hills, vietnam, usa, asia, california
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:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.
Style:
feel good, parody, not serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, teenage life, camp counselor, camp, gay couple, rivalry, summer, friends, youth, buddies, silly humor, grownups ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Welcome to T & A High, where the entire student body including campus virgin Purity Busch, chronic masturbator Melvin Jerkovski, repressed Principal Stuckoff and blonde bombshell Bootsie Goodhead all must rise to the challenges of freshman ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, independent film, grindhouse, raunchy comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sex, strip club, sex shop, cheerleader, bowling, female nudity, caught masturbating, older woman younger man relationship, high school, erection, sexpot, peeping tom ...
Time:
year 1965, 80s, 60s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of teenage summer campers and one counselor share the stories of their first sexual experiences when an avalanche traps them in a cave...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, sexual, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cave, summer camp, voyeur, male nudity, teenager, erotica, sexual relations, looking for sex, sex, fondling, sexual humor, orgy ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Nickelodeon’s Sizzling Summer Camp Special features all of your favorite Nickelodeon stars as they head off to a sleep-away camp together — but they soon find themselves in danger! The friends find out that their campsite has been haunted. The ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
summer camp, summer, children, tv star, pop star, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, elf, child star, families, supernatural ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
high school, porn star, looking for sex, sexuality, filmmaking, adult filmmaking, college, dumb, stupidity, teenage life, disorder, sexual relations ...
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The original American Pie characters have moved on, except for Sherman and Jim Levenstein's still understanding dad. Steve Stifler's little brother Matt wants to join his brother's business (the hit it big Girls Gone Wild) and after ...
Style:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, sexy, funny, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, hidden camera, cheerleader, looking for sex, stupidity, happy ending, dumb, youth, sex, caught masturbating, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious ...
Style:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sexual, raunchy comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
sex, high school, bare breasts, nude girl, voyeur, teenager, nudity, school, prank, teenage sex, male nudity, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 1950s, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
Style:
not serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, youth, misfit, buddies, friendship, silly humor, nothing goes right, goofy hero, odd couple, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sequel to Dorm Daze has most of the original group of college students on a cruise ship in the Pacific, putting on a school play which takes a turn involving the theft of a priceless diamond.
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, satirical, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college, sex, voyeurism, erotica, cruise ship, college life, student, jewel theft, college student, high school, friends, disorder ...
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
24%
465K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, party, adolescence, virginity, sex, masturbation, looking for sex, nudity, college, loss of virginity, high school ...
Time:
year 1999, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
michigan, usa, north america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make ...
Style:
sex comedy, raunchy comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, rafting, race, river, college, raft, teenager, campus, youth, nudity, female nudity, drinking ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Jack and his buddy Ben check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel thief. They'll have to outsmart him, ...
Style:
sexy, not serious, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, raunchy comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
resort, beach, beach party, teenager, youth, sexual attraction, sex, public nudity, making love, femme fatale, goofy hero, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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134K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, parody, light, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
golf, country club, female nudity, nude girl, teenage girl, nudity, public nudity, swimming pool, pregnant teenager, bare breasts, peeping tom, passionate kiss ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
nebraska, usa, seattle, canada
Similarity:
24%
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:
sexy, sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
party, high school, sex scene, public nudity, sexual fantasy, coitus, voyeurism, voyeur, female nudity, school, buddies, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
2K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teen tomboy has to choose between her best friends and the new boy in her life, but what happens when one of the dudes fall for her?
Style:
romantic comedy, humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teen romance, tomboy, teenager, youth, coming of age, friends, love triangle, disorder, love and romance, parents and children, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When camps around the country were shutting down every year and Camp Kitchikewana made the economically necessary move to turn co-ed, the result was a very real clash of the sexes.
Style:
humorous, feel good, funny, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
summer camp, camp, employer employee relationship, coworker, satire, workplace situations, workplace, co worker co worker relationship, unhappiness, coming of age, friendship, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
resort, disorder, couples, friends, fall in love, lifestyle, youth, beach, looking for sex, island, honeymoon, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A pair of horny college guys get summer jobs at a sexy cheerleader camp.
Style:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, strip club, stripper, sex, female nudity, masturbation, nymph, camp, peeping tom, voyeur, voyeurism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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