Movies like Real Genius

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Real Genius (1985)
 6.9
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Real Genius (1985)
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, feel good, humorous, retro, epic, sex comedy, romantic comedy, anamorphic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: computer cracker, college, genius, nerd, teenager, high school, geek, technology, hacking, mentor, computer, coming of age, campus, hacker, computer hacker, college life, mathematics, education, boy genius, prodigy, revenge, military, scientist, science, manic pixie dream girl ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: california
Keyword: oldies, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and teen comedy films with plots about youth, teenager, college, high school, coming of age, love and disorder mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Real Genius: Sixteen Candles (1984), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Genius (1999), The Nutty Professor (1963), Better Off Dead... (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sixteen Candles (1984)
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, sweet, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, teenage life, high school life, youth, self discovery, teenage girl, teenage love, first love, female nudity, teen romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
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, sex comedy, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, youth, party, fraternity, student life, high school, college life, coming of age, rich snob, flirting, sex ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.0
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Genius (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: hidden identity, youth, ice hockey, adolescence, preteen, college life, teenage life, campus, college, high school life, high school, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Nutty Professor (1963)
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, feel good, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, family outing
Plot: college, transformation, nerd, love, chemistry, coming of age, mad scientist, professor, potion, laboratory, clown, mad doctor ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Better Off Dead... (1985)
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, humorous, dark comedy, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, skiing, teenager, high school, suicide attempt, youth, slutty attitude, machismo, teenage love, young lovers, rivalry, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: usa, california, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
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, realistic, feel good, funny, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, college, youth, graduation, house party, party, friends, cheerleader, american football, bullying ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, y2k, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.7
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Back to School (1986)
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: funny, humorous, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: college, fish out of water, university, college life, youth, farce, cheerleader, school, switching roles, adaptation, father son relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1940
Place: usa, wisconsin, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 3.7
 938
Joy of Sex (1984)
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: realistic, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, erotic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: loss of virginity, high school, looking for sex, sex scene, youth, teenage love, teenage life, coming of age, lifestyle, couples, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
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, feel good, sex comedy, funny, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: college, nerd, sex, sorority, bullying, prank, high school, youth, underdog, cheerleader, teenage girl, college freshman ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: usa, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Just One of the Guys (1985)
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, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, high school, gender disguise, adolescence, gender bending, college, sexism, prom, hidden identity, switching roles, coming of age, gender bender ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: california, phoenix arizona, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Nutty Professor (1996)
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: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: overweight, split personality, african american, inventor, alter ego, experiment gone awry, campus, farce, love, black, goofy hero, teacher ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: madagascar, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.4
 140K
Accepted (2006)
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, funny, entertaining, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, college life, high school, youth, student, education, party, coming of age, slacker, campus, college student ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.1
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Teen Wolf (1985)
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, semi serious, humorous, teen, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, werewolf, school, teenager, high school life, friends, basketball, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, transformation, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.6
 66K
Short Circuit (1986)
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, light, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, military, animal lover, lightning, childhood, cyborgs, struck by lightning, androids, technology, machine ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, oregon, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
How I Got Into College (1989)
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, light ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, high school, coming of age, teenager, police investigation, justice, storytelling, stereotypes, happy ending, adaptation, multiple storylines, mentor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
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, teen, funny, sex comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, misfit, youth, looking for sex, high school, party, dumb, stupidity, friendship, lifestyle, culture clash, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.4
 24K
Explorers (1985)
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: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 6.9
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Lucas (1986)
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, entertaining, epic, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: american football, coming of age, high school, cheerleader, youth, love, friendship, cheerleading, adolescence, unrequited love, high school student, women ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.2
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Sydney White (2007)
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: teen, feel good, romantic, cute, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot: college, sorority, popularity, high school, youth, fall in love, student life, cheerleading, college life, rivalry, society, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.3
 9K
Soul Man (1986)
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, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, college, high school, mentor, teenager, culture clash, happy ending, coming of age, black, teenage sex, black man, interracial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.5
 245K
Legally Blonde (2001)
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, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: lawyer, girl power, sorority, fashion, blonde, law school, college, law, university, trial, believe in yourself, law student ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, boston, massachusetts, los angeles, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.3
 15K
Slackers (2002)
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, humorous, funny, satirical, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, slacker, teenage love, stoner, high school, blackmail, friends, disorder, cons and scams, love triangle, lifestyle, goofy hero ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Happy Together (1989)
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, love, roommate, teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, university, college roommate, aspiring actor, gay subtext, dormitory ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Back to the Future (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time loop, teenager, destiny, inventor, scientist, changing the past or future, time, fish out of water, high school ...
Time: future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, year 1955 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.3
 30K
Loser (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: college, college student, loser, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, teenager, friendship, opposites attract, naivete, nerd, coming of age, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Zapped Again! (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A new kid moves into school, making enemies with the affluent societies and joining the beleaguered Science Club. But when an old potion is discovered to confer telekinetic power he gets the chance to get his own back, as well as having a bit of fun ...
Style: sex comedy, dark, independent film, sexy, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: hottie, high school, teenager, erotica, psychic power, psychic, telekinesis, potion, laboratory, nudity, power relations, environmentalism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.9
 103K
She's All That (1999)
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: teenager, high school, opposites attract, youth, teen romance, adolescence, bet, high school life, fall in love, young love, teenage girl, teenage love ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
 18K
Valley Girl (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
Style: feel good, sex comedy, light, slang, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, party, friends, friendship, obsessive love, teen romance, dancing, love triangle, punk rock, love ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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