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Real Genius (1985)
41K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
Style:
funny, entertaining, cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, retro, epic, sex comedy, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
computer cracker, college, genius, campus, nerd, high school, geek, technology, hacking, mentor, computer, coming of age, hacker, computer hacker, college life, boy genius, mathematics, computer genius, education, prodigy, teenager, revenge, military, scientist, science ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, entertaining and funny films with plots about storytelling, mentor, youth, dialogue, runaway, teenager and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Real Genius: Junior (1994), Eureka (2006), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Sixteen Candles (1984), Genius (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
78K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, light, humorous, funny, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
pregnancy, baby, happy ending, science, pregnant man, pregnant woman, scientist, baby born, realism, love and romance, car, dancing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
62K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The sleep Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal ...
Style:
futuristic, clever, light, humorous, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
save the day, scientist, secret place, science, friendship, hi-tech, experiment, technology, experimenting, danger, small town, sheriff ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
college, youth, party, fraternity, student life, high school, teenager, coming of age, college life, love and romance, rich snob, flirting ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style:
feel good, touching, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
hidden identity, youth, campus, ice hockey, adolescence, preteen, social relations, disorder, family relations, prodigy, dishonesty, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him ...
Style:
slapstick, funny, humorous, feel good, parody ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
professor, jekyll and hyde, potion, college, chemistry, nerd, transformation, love, alter ego, laboratory, hidden identity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
san francisco
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33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, black comedy, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
overweight, campus, split personality, inventor, african american, food, sarcasm, jekyll and hyde, love, nothing goes right, alter ego, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
usa, north america, madagascar
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with ...
Style:
feel good, funny, dark comedy, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, skiing, teenager, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen angst, exchange student, depression, obsession, suicide attempt, slutty attitude ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious ...
Style:
humorous, light, talky, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
college, father son relationship, fish out of water, cheerleader, farce, university, college life, youth, switching roles, school, businessman, sexual fantasy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1940, future
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
high school, cross dressing, gender disguise, gender bending, gender bender, adolescence, tomboy, sexism, prom, college, hidden identity, newspaper ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
california, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona, arizona, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Teenager Leslie Hindenberg, mistakenly believing she has just weeks to live, decides she will lose her virginity before she dies.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
loss of virginity, looking for sex, high school, sex scene, youth, teenage love, teenage life, lifestyle, coming of age, power relations, couples, disorder ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom ...
Style:
romantic, funny, realistic, teen, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, college, high school, teenager, youth, house party, graduation, cheerleader, love story, party, american football, friends ...
Time:
90s, y2k, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
65K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Style:
feel good, teen, semi serious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, girls' night, horror for children ...
Plot:
high school, werewolf, coming of age, teenager, school, high school life, friends, basketball, happy ending, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, transformation ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
new jersey, nebraska, north america, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sex comedy, teen, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, arizona, tucson arizona
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, military, androids and robots, animal lover, struck by lightning, lightning, childhood, talking robot, malfunction, cyborgs, androids ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
oregon, usa, astoria oregon, montana
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, satirical, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
college, high school, coming of age, teenager, justice, police investigation, dialogue, stereotypes, happy ending, mentor, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
holland, europe, california
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot:
sorority, lawyer, girl power, blonde, law school, fashion, college, law, university, law student, campus, believe in yourself ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, boston, harvard university, los angeles, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A modern retelling of Snow White set against students in their freshman year of college in the greek system.
Style:
cute, feel good, romantic, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot:
college, sorority, high school, cheerleading, youth, popularity, student life, fall in love, teenager, college life, teenage girl, society ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
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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, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, school, teacher, teenage girl, teen angst, teenage angst, teenage boy, rebel, skipping school ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, north america, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Style:
humorous, sexy, teen, funny, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, misfit, party, youth, stupidity, dumb, looking for sex, high school, female nudity, lifestyle, friendship, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2006, 80s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, london
Similarity:
28%
25K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style:
cult classic, light, feel good, retro, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
Similarity:
28%
19K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
Style:
touching, feel good, epic, entertaining, colorful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
american football, coming of age, high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, love, first love, youth, childhood, unrequited love, high school student, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, new jersey, california
Similarity:
28%
16K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, humorous, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
college, slacker, teenage love, stoner, true love, blackmail, high school, friends, disorder, cons and scams, love triangle, goofy hero ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
27%
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146K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, teen, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
college, teenager, college life, sex, high school, youth, campus, party, slacker, coming of age, american football, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including ...
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sexy, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, sex, voyeurism, cheerleader, high school, coming of age, girls' boarding school, friends, bare breasts, college, man disguised as a woman, peeping tom ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Similarity:
27%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, ...
Style:
humorous, controversial, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, mentor, high school, teenager, culture clash, racial discrimination, campus, happy ending, racial stereotype, white male pretending to be black, coming of age, black ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii, harvard university ...
Similarity:
27%
32K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, feel good, teen, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
college, college student, teenager, loser, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, nerd, naivete, emo, opposites attract, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college, pretending to be gay, college roommate, love, male nudity, female nudity, teenager, fall in love, opposites attract, university, dormitory, aspiring actor ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, opposites attract, teen romance, youth, bet, fall in love, young love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage love, friendship ...
Time:
90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Saved by the Bell: The College Years is a sequel to the Saved by the Bell series which ran from September 14, 1993 to February 8, 1994, lasting one season. It was the third incarnation of the franchise. It is also the only series of the franchise to ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, friendship, lifestyle, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, student life, looking for love, youth, coming of age, teachers and students, best friend, university ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
25%
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