Movies like Napoleon Dynamite
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Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
225K
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, melancholic, absurd, not serious, surreal, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
small town, high school, teenager, friendship, election, adolescence, youth, high school life, bullying, american football, teenage life, social misfits, eccentric family, goofy hero, coming of age, loser, crazy, brutality, stupidity, rejection, nerd, satire, antisocial behavior, disney, bully ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
idaho, usa, utah, mexico
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Most similar movies to Napoleon Dynamite
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and cult film films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, mentor, runaway, catastrophe, brutality and pornography mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Napoleon Dynamite: Step Brothers (2008), Hot Rod (2007), Dazed and Confused (1993), Superbad (2007), Terri (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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302K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, talky, stylized, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
slacker, dysfunctional family, friendship, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, friendship between men, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, man child, living with parents, goofy hero ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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80%
89K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Rod Kimball, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most ...
Style:
funny, feel good, witty, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, friendship, motorcycle, misfit, ambition, fund raising, obsessive quest, young man, team, goofy hero, contests and competitions, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
washington state, usa
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78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style:
feel good, talky, sentimental, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence vs adulthood, adolescence, party, friendship, weed, hippie, stoner, stoners, drugs ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, california, london, new jersey, austin texas ...
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67%
593K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
Style:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
high school, teenager, coming of age, nerd, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, loss of virginity, friendship, dumb, pig ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style:
melancholic, compassionate, sexy, clever, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, coming of age, small town, cheerleading, school, loneliness, bullying, existentialism, teenage life, eccentricity, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Style:
surreal, humorous, melancholic, not serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
writers, eccentricity, small town, stupidity, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, teenage life, socially awkward, misfit, social misfits, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Rising executive Tim Wagner works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, absurd, talky, entertaining ...
Plot:
farce, misfit, stupidity, friendship, happy ending, dumb, corporate world, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, goofy hero, loser, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, loser, high school, teenage love, teenage life, misfit, lifestyle, social misfits, society, adolescence vs adulthood, high school life, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
scientist, nerd, friends, science, friend, sarcasm, best friend, friendship, geek, group of friends, neighbor, roommate ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pasadena california, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
Style:
road movie, buddy comedy, humorous, ridiculous, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, friendship, farce, on the road, adoption, stupidity, prank, disorder, friends, misfit partners, escapades, nothing goes right ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, el paso texas, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Clerks is an American animated sitcom based on Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy of the same name. It was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by ...
Style:
humorous, adult animation, not serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, satire, buddies, master villain, save the day, escapades, everyday life, disorder, workplace, partners, goofy hero, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Style:
surreal, absurd, clever, bad ending, lyrical ...
Plot:
cheerleader, suburbs, surrealism, hotel, parallel universe, male nudity, creativity, crime gone awry, breaking the fourth wall, melancholy, nude, postmodernism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sexy, campy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
women, high school, friendship, teenager, fashion, coming of age, stereotypes, switching roles, self discovery, love and romance, high school reunion, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, arizona, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
14K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, college life, fraternity, high school, friendship, university, party, hippie, satire, weekend, friends, social differences ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teacher, school, teenage girl, childhood, one day, teenage boy, skipping school, teenage angst ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, california, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man from the past in their back yard. But the thawed-out Link, as the boys have named him, quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany Southern California lives. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, date night
Plot:
high school, caveman, prom, party, slacker, cheerleading, teenager, earthquake, best friend, bully, school, dancing ...
Time:
prehistory, future, 80s, prehistoric times, stone age
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
148K
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, feel good, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
school, stupidity, teacher, teachers and students, graduation, high school, family business, bullying, happy ending, mentor, father son relationship, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, humorous, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
teenager, high school, bully, cheerleading, cheerleader, stereotypes, friends, rivalry, college, teenage sex, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 2000s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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268K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including Scream, ...
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, not serious, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
youth, satire, high school, stupidity, sarcasm, absurd humor, adolescence, media satire, graphic violence, dumb, small town, teenager ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, college, friendship between men, college life, party, sport, youth, coming of age, rivalry, male objectification, friendship, student athlete ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
texas, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, disorder, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, crumbling relationship, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ...
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teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
high school, porn star, looking for sex, filmmaking, cheerleading, sexuality, college, stupidity, dumb, teenage life, porn industry, disorder ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
restaurant, teenager, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace, workplace romance, college, staff, buddies, prank, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
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funny, intellectual, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, sarcasm, workplace, slacker, everyday life, drugs, friendship between men, weed, loser, redemption, cult, job ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, ironic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, farce, dumb, eccentricity, goofy hero, misfit, sexual attraction, family relations, love and romance, brother brother relationship, socially awkward, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, antarctica
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, high school, dysfunctional family, coming of age, cheerleading, slacker, family relations, drugs, youth, cheerleader, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Place:
california, southern california, usa, yale university, mexico
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38%
414K
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, humorous, funny, sexy ...
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, party, virginity, high school, looking for sex, masturbation, adolescence, loss of virginity, teenage sexuality, teenage life, teenage sex ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
High school graduation just wouldn’t be complete without an un-chaperoned, uninhibited and unforgettable final holiday. At least that’s what Will, Jay, Simon and Neil think when they book a two-week stay on an exotic Greek island. As their ...
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funny, melancholic, not serious, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
vacation, coming of age, holiday, friendship, adolescence, teenager, popularity, sex, high school, socially awkward, party, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jane (Anna Faris), a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, stylized, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, goofy hero, drugs, escapades, stoner, roommate, youth, stoned, comedy of errors, actor's life, paranoid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, venice california
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37%
23K
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 ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
camp, summer camp, coming of age, teenager, youth, rivalry, nerd, mentor, friends, mischievous children, rich and poor, high school ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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37%
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