Movies like Risky Business
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Risky Business (1983)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Style:
sexy, humorous, sexual, clever, realistic, cynical, witty, semi serious, dark humor, cult film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, prostitute, pimp, profanity, party, coming of age, suburbs, nudity (full frontal - brief), strong sexual content, youth, rock, sexual exploration, society, suburban life, disorder, nothing goes right, when the parents are away, teenage life, brothel, teenager, prostitution, dancing, friendship, sex, poker ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, california, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and sexy films with plots about high school, mentor, love and romance, dialogue, storytelling, runaway and youth mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Risky Business: The Last American Virgin (1982), Losin' It (1983), The Girl Next Door (2004), Class (1983), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Style:
humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, sex, coming of age, contests and competitions, prostitute, teenager, virgin, loss of virginity, young lovers, looking for sex, wooing, high school life ...
Time:
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Place:
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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.
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sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
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teens
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prostitute, teenager, high school, dressing room, locker room, coming of age, virginity, school, teenage life, suburban life, looking for sex, nightlife ...
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Place:
usa, california, latin america, los angeles, mexico ...
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82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn ...
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sexy, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet ...
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teen comedy, teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
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teenager, pornography, porn star, sexual attraction, youth, teenage love, lifestyle, fall in love, girl next door, love and romance, first love, neighbor ...
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usa, las vegas, california, cambodia
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby ...
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sexy, humorous, sexual, realistic, semi serious ...
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teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, friendship, coming of age, nudity (topless - notable), romance, boarding school, nudity (full frontal - brief), lifestyle, youth, profanity, sexual content, boarding school life ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
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humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sexy ...
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teens, teen comedy, girls' night, date night
Plot:
coming of age, loss of virginity, first sex, high school, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, teenage love, high school life, youth, teacher, school dance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
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teens, date night, girls' night
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friendship, coming of age, high school, homecoming, best friends, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, twentysomething life, lifestyle, love and romance, wedding ...
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Place:
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62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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61%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
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feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
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teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, ambition, college, american football, small town, friendship, youth, locker room, coach, sport, family relations, self discovery ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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:
feel good, realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen comedy
Plot:
high school, coming of age, underdog, high school life, football, friendship, bittersweet, romance, cheerleading, friends, sport team, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
friends, party, profanity, best friend, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, proposal, becoming an adult, grownups, college graduate, slacker, sister ...
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Place:
usa, california
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57%
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:
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teenager, high school, birthday, teenage love, self discovery, high school life, high school hunk, teenage life, first love, coming of age, love and romance, youth ...
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57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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56%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
Style:
humorous, sexy, realistic, erotic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spring break, college, teenager, romance, drinking, student life, friendship, sexual relations, looking for sex, on the road, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, social relations, teenage life, school, high school student, high school life, marijuana, hip hop, geek, youth, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa, harvard university
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55%
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, humorous, semi serious, witty, slang ...
Audience:
teens, teen comedy, date night, girls' night
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friends, high school, coming of age, party, punk, teenager, romance, teenage life, opposites attract, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, love affair ...
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80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, australia
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55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic new student known only as the Sheik. Sheik is an Italian whose primary interests are his car, Frank Sinatra, and Jill. At first she is taken aback by his ...
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touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
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girls' night, teens, date night
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new jersey, usa, florida, miami
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55%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
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teens, teen comedy
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A combination of unfortunate circumstances force Darren into the situation where he has to sell off the eponymous stash of drugs in a limited time frame.
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Duration: 100 min.
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Country: USA
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55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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54%
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Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sexual
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ...
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Plot:
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53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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