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, witty, cynical, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, prostitute, pimp, coming of age, suburbs, nudity (full frontal - brief), strong sexual content, youth, rock, society, sexual exploration, suburban life, nothing goes right, disorder, when the parents are away, teenage life, brothel, teenager, prostitution, dancing, friendship, sex, rock and roll, drugs, poker ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois, california, new jersey, united states
Most similar movies to Risky Business
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and sexy films with plots about high school, friendship, youth, teenager, runaway, storytelling and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Risky Business: The Girl Next Door (2004), Class (1983), All the Right Moves (1983), The Last American Virgin (1982), Losin' It (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, student, teenage love, porn star, fall in love, teenage sex, sexual attraction, youth, dream come true, lifestyle, couple relations, pornographic video ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 80s
Place:
usa, las vegas, california, cambodia
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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 ...
Style:
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, older woman teenage boy sex, romance, boarding school, nudity (full frontal - brief), couples, family relations, friends, love affair, college ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new york
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100%

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 ...
Style:
feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, american football, college, ambition, small town, friendship, youth, cheerleader, coach, sport, self discovery, teenage life ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh, california, new jersey
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100%

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:
sexual, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, teenager, coming of age, sex, loss of virginity, contests and competitions, teenage love, prostitute, virgin, young lovers, looking for sex, gender ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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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.
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sexy, humorous, sexual, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitute, coming of age, high school, virginity, loss of virginity, school, silly humor, couples, friends, disorder, nothing goes right, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, year 1965, 20th century, 60s
Place:
california, mexico, usa, latin america, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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, ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sexy ...
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teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
coming of age, high school, loss of virginity, first sex, friendship, high school life, abortion, teenage love, unwanted pregnancy, youth, teacher, vandalism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, southern california, los angeles
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41%

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 ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, high school life, teenage love, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa, hawaii, new jersey, california
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39%

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, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, new year's eve, softball, romance, bittersweet, nudity (full frontal - brief), partners, lifestyle, buddies, love and romance, battle of the sexes, best friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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38%
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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 ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, wedding, coming of age, high school, erection, homecoming, friendship between men, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, family relations, best friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, new jersey, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%

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:
touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, high school, teenage love, self discovery, high school life, birthday, teenage life, youth, love and romance, first love, coming of age, high school hunk ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
illinois, usa, california
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37%
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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, touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
american football, cheerleading, coming of age, high school, high school life, first love, bully, friendship, romance, underdog, hopes, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, new jersey, california
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36%

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive ...
Style:
clever, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
nudity (full frontal - brief), fistfight, police officer, police, crimes, graphic violence, sexual content, bittersweet, dangerous attraction, love triangle, jazz, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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36%

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Style:
bleak, cynical, rough, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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36%

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by 60’s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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35%

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, erotic, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spring break, loss of virginity, college, romance, friends, couples, disorder, teenage life, college life, sexual relations, looking for sex, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
opposites attract, cheerleading, high school, friendship, romance, dream girl, social differences, youth, lifestyle, couples, social climbing, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
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35%

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sexual
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, teenage life, teenage love, family relations, sexual relations, high school life, love and romance, best friends, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new jersey, usa, russia
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35%

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When high-school heartthrob Michael receives an unsigned love letter, he assumes it's from knock-out prom queen Deborah Anne instead of pretty honor student Toni. And when Michael accidentally misplaces the letter, the juicy jottings soon make ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen sex comedy, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, comedy of errors, teenage life, mistaken identity, school, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, farce, friendship, summer vacation, summer ...
Time:
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Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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 ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love triangle, coming of age, depression, friendship, teacher, high school, student, jealousy, adolescence, mentor, teachers and students, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%

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, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friends, high school, coming of age, romance, teenage life, unlikely couple, opposites attract, unfulfillment, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, friendship ...
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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 ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
high school, coming of age, opposites attract, college, forbidden love, innocence lost, class differences, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, unlikely couple, society ...
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35%

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, california, oklahoma
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35%

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a quiet night in, however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
nanny, playboy magazine, criminal gang, adventure, car theft, friendship, babysitting, rescue, nothing goes right, youth, mischievous children, on the run ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, high school, transsexual, friendship, family relations, pimp, prom, father son relationship, gender bending, teenage protagonist, small town, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place:
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34%

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
Style:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sexual, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, idaho, california
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34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.
Style:
humorous, witty, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
sex, coming of age, high school, single parent, youth, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, parents and children, small town, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Place:
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34%

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.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, disturbing
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college life, college, high school life, teenage life, nothing goes right, drug dealing, dark humor, student life, youth, coming of age, partners, crimes ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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34%

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sweet, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids
Plot:
high school, prom, journalist, humiliation, entrapment, undercover, hidden identity, romance, fall in love, journalism, high school life, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%

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, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
skipping school, coming of age, friendship, high school, generation gap, high school life, when the parents are away, family relations, teacher, teenage life, boss, student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%

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, sexy, witty, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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