Movies like The Prince of Pennsylvania
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
2K
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, kidnapper, motorcycle, mine, age-gap relationship, missing person, family relations, dysfunctional family, friendship, youth, friends, family life, couples, teenage life, family problems, family in crisis, disorder, buddies, cons and scams, christmas, dog, teenager, revenge, lawyer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Most similar movies to The Prince of Pennsylvania
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about bare chested male, cigarette smoking, teenager, family relations, police officer, friendship and telephone call mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Prince of Pennsylvania: Good Kids (2016), The Night Before (1988), Snack Shack (2024), S.F.W. (1994), Birds of America (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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, sexual humor, vulgar, graduation, coming of age, group of friends, friendship, teenage boy, teenager, cheating on husband, husband and wife, point of view ...
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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, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
kidnapped man, teenager, night, cheerleader, party, teen angst, amnesia, prom, memory loss, partner, teenage life, on the run ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Inseparable best friends AJ & Moose decide to run the local pool's snack shack after their plan to sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Things take a turn when they meet Brooke, an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big plans, ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, buddy comedy, crying, teen comedy, f word ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
summer job, girl next door, teen romance, friendship, love triangle, lifeguard, swimming pool, summer, jealous friend, jealousy, teenage protagonist, seductive girl ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, iowa
Similarity:
55%
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, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, stoner, slacker, reporter, satire, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
52%
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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, insomnia, family relations, couples, estrangement, family problems, youth, vengeance, family gatherings, parents and children, couple relations, introspection ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...
Style:
ambiguous ending, light, touching, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, group of friends, gay slur, father son relationship, murder, mayor, suicide, loss of father, dark humor, friendship between men, mentor, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
prague, central europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basement out to family therapist Ulrik. Very soon, Ulrik has put their marriage to a severe test.
Style:
low brow humor, freeze frame, neurotic, f word
Plot:
bare chested male, lack of privacy, singer, unfaithful husband, fat man, unfaithfulness, best friend, old woman, woman dressed as man, hysterical outburst, buying a house, construction worker ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Style:
dark comedy, sexual, slasher, art house, cult classic ...
Plot:
butcher, teenager, surrealism, hippie, family relations, dark humor, small town, neighbor, suburbs, neglect, dull life, social relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
europe, netherlands, holland
Similarity:
51%
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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, touching, witty ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, love and romance, save the day, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time:
70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
51%
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, high school, gay, transgender, lgbt teen, small town, lgbtq, drinking, hospital, teenager, gender bending ...
Time:
80s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place:
england, new york state, chicago, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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:
biting, erotic, dark comedy, independent film, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, adolescence, sex, lesbian sex, teenager, dysfunctional family, school, sexual harassment, coming of age, false accusation, high school, revenge ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
50%
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:
touching, road movie, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, tourette's syndrome, mental illness, friendship, coming of age, on the road, mentally unstable protagonist, father son relationship, obsessive quest, escapades, social misfits, mental health ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, tokyo, reno nevada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
bank, partner, wedding, escape, cons and scams, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, curses spells and rituals, babies and infants, dishonesty, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
50%
29K
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, talky, witty, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
christmas, hostage, dysfunctional family, farce, holiday, robbery, marriage counselor, marital crisis, extramarital affair, manhunt, blackmail, dinner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
50%
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:
sincere, realistic, serious, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, gay interest, adultery, cheating wife, older woman younger man sex, older woman teenage boy sex, unfaithful wife, betrayal, sexual relations, male pubic hair, high school, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
50%
12K
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, public nudity, american football, male pubic hair, drug addiction, high school, friendship, campus, teenager, subculture, slacker ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new jersey, seattle, texas, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, midlife crisis, breakup, male objectification, friendship between men, group of friends, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
central europe, paris france, budapest
Similarity:
50%
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, artist, horse, father issues, old woman, bare chested male, horniness, photography, trauma, golddigger, traumatized man, world trade center manhattan new york city ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
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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, sexy, funny, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, loss of virginity, brother brother relationship, jail, friendship, car chase, premarital sex, car accident, prostitute ...
Time:
80s, year 1965, year 1983, 60s, 20th century
Place:
california, tijuana mexico, usa, latin america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
50%
310
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family problems, disorder, parents and children, manhood, youth, dysfunctional family, dark humor, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
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:
dark comedy, cult classic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
military base, football, teenage girl, sex scene, youth, house, garden, tennis, sexual attraction, unrequited love, drunken woman, kidnapped woman ...
Time:
80s
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 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:
cynical, talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, greed, secrets, character study, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, long island, vermont, harvard university
Similarity:
49%
7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Style:
semi autobiographical, independent film, freeze frame
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
young boy, coming of age, 13 year old, teenage boy, skateboard, summer, brother sister relationship, slice of life, absent father, teenager, sibling relationship, first love ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, bay area
Similarity:
49%
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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, biting, cynical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
writers, psychiatrist, mental illness, adultery, writer's block, housewife, sexual attraction, voyeur, psychopath, 007, poet, estrangement ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
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, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, dark humor, suburbs, suicide, kidnapping, youth, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, satire, friendship, mistaken identity, high school ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
49%
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:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, unlikely couple, hopes, small town life, unlikely partners, couple relations, interviewer ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
2K
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, suspenseful, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
werewolf, monster, female boss, high school student, supernatural, older woman younger man relationship, chase, death, violence, massacre, strange behavior, peril ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
49%
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, lgbt, murder, corruption, greed, revenge, hotel, serial killer, inn, rural setting, older woman younger man relationship, social climbing ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, 70s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe, prussia, bavaria ...
Similarity:
49%
5K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends at an apartment, ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills - only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
Style:
satirical, psychological, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
drug traffic, friendship, drug dealer, drug, criminal, neighbor neighbor relationship, group of friends, social problems, roommate, satire, drug dealing, flatmate ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe
Similarity:
49%
344K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Style:
funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
youth, stupidity, friendship, satire, high school, plan gone awry, fraternity, friends, manipulation, revenge, drinking, male objectification ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
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