Movies like The Prince of Pennsylvania

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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
Style: retro, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, motorcycle, mine, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, missing person, family relations, dysfunctional family, kidnapper, friendship, youth, friends, family life, couples, teenage life, family problems, family in crisis, disorder, buddies, cons and scams, christmas, dog, teenager, revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
Keyword: outburst

Most similar movies to The Prince of Pennsylvania

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about coming of age, bare chested male, teenager, family relations, youth, cigarette smoking and teenage boy mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Prince of Pennsylvania: The Night Before (1988), Birds of America (2008), S.F.W. (1994), Diggers (2006), Book of Love (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Night Before (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Night Before is a 1988 film starring Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin. Reeves plays Winston Connelly, the so-called high school nerd and vice president of the Astronomy club. Loughlin plays Tara Mitchell, the pretty and popular head cheerleader ...
Style: cult classic, retro, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, night, party, teen angst, amnesia, memory loss, prom, kidnapped man, cheerleader, partner, misfit, teenage life ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Birds of America (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, family saga ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, couples, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection, lifestyle ...
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S.F.W. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Style: cult classic, clever, independent film, philosophical, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, slacker, reporter, satire, stoner, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle
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69%
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Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, save the day, love and romance, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, family relations, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sebastian's step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he's changing sexes. Sebastian's sister splits immediately for ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, high school, gay, transgender, small town, lgbtq, hospital, teenager, drinking, teenage protagonist, gender bending ...
Time: 80s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1983
Place: england, new york state, chicago, new york, europe ...
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59%
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Book of Love (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, adultery, older woman younger man sex, older woman teenage boy sex, cheating wife, menage a trois, unfaithful wife, crumbling marriage, betrayal, sexual relations, love triangle, male pubic hair ...
Place: cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Good Kids (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
Style: teen sex comedy, sexy, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: party, graduation, sexual humor, coming of age, friendship, group of friends, teenage boy, teenager, friendship between men, rivalry, student, socially awkward ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Senior Trip (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock ...
Style: freeze frame, teen comedy
Plot: tourist, horse, artist, father issues, secretary, painter, taxi, actor, fish, bus driver, gay, male objectification ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Losin' It (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, prostitute, teenager, loss of virginity, car accident, teenage boy, premarital sex, jail, brother brother relationship, bar fight ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: california, tijuana mexico, los angeles, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.9
 26K
The Ref (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Caroline and Lloyd are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at ...
Style: dark comedy, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Plot: christmas, hostage, dysfunctional family, holiday, farce, marriage counselor, family bonds, robbery, christmas party, blackmail, alcoholic, dinner ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Road Within (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, mental illness, tourette's syndrome, on the road, friendship, psychiatrist, coming of age, father son relationship, obsessive quest, mentally unstable protagonist, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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SubUrbia (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Style: grindhouse, teen, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: punk, male nudity, american football, public nudity, male pubic hair, high school, drug addiction, friendship, teenager, subculture, alienation, slacker ...
Time: year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place: new jersey, seattle, texas, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Something for Everyone (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
Style: independent film, clever, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, revenge, greed, hotel, corruption, serial killer, lgbtq, trippy, estate, manipulation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: austria, europe, japan, prussia, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Darlings! (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and disrupt the lives of their parents.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, offbeat, witty, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: military base, youth, troubled relationship, older sister, bad kids, prank, coming of age, family relations, garden, house, football, tennis ...
Time: 80s
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Late Bloomer (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: puberty, coming of age, love, sex therapist, youth, orgasm, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Taking Chances (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, partner, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, couple relations, unlikely couple, unlikely partners, hopes, small town life, couples, interviewer ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Kelly & Cal (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, indie film ...
Plot: friendship, older woman younger man relationship, unhappy wife, single mother, youth, self discovery, teenage life, suburbs, punk rocker, husband wife relationship, wheelchair bound, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Fine Madness (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Style: retro, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: writers, psychiatrist, mental illness, psychopath, 007, poet, estrangement, writer's block, adultery, voyeur, power relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Hesher (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style: bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, grief, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, trauma, family problems, family drama, rebelliousness, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: politics, coming of age, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, cheerleader, teenage boy, male nudity, fall in love, misfit ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Mid90s (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for ...
Style: thought provoking, social, teen, humorous, retro ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: skateboard, coming of age, skateboarder, teenager, friendship, friends, underage drinking, underage sex, dysfunctional family, adolescence, brother brother relationship, self harm ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, paris france, florida, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Bongwater (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: David (Luke Wilson) is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena (Alicia Witt), and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot: stoner, weed, slacker, marijuana, house fire, drug dealer, artist, brotherhood, stoned, joke, drug, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, new york, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 2K
Teddy (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that ...
Style: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, bleak, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, monster, supernatural, high school student, female boss, massacre, chase, strange behavior, violence, death, older woman younger man relationship, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Just Before I Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: suicide attempt, gay, loneliness, midlife crisis, closeted homosexual, suicide, relationships, guilt, brutality, family relations, redemption, justice ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Staying Together (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: restaurant, runner, coming of age, siblings, age-gap relationship, food, teenager, infidelity, small town, family business, family relations, punched in the face ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Beautiful Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage love, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, youth, estrangement ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, budapest, hungary, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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