Movies like Say Anything...

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Say Anything... (1989)
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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 hanging in the balance, Diane must find a way to make both men happy.
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen, romantic comedy, humorous, sentimental, cult classic, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, first love, couples, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend, wooing, happy ending, adolescence, teenage angst, brat pack, fall in love, teenage life, bittersweet, true love, young adult, first sexual experience, friendship, college ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c., malibu california, california ...
Keyword: oldies, sport, challenge

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Most similar movies to Say Anything...

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous and romantic films with plots about teenager, love and romance, love, coming of age, high school, couples and youth mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Say Anything...: For Keeps? (1988), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Sixteen Candles (1984), Valley Girl (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
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100%
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, cute, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, best friend, tomboy, love triangle, love, friendship, teenager, teenage love, teen romance, friends to lovers, love story ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.0
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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 ⇓
83%
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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 ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Pretty in Pink (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style: romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, teen romance, bullying, class differences, father daughter relationship, relationships, love story, high school life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.8
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Serendipity (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: destiny, fall in love, christmas, serendipity, coincidence, love and romance, true love, looking for love, friendship, fate, love, love story ...
Time: year 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Style: romantic, touching, sincere, light, sweet ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, pretend relationship, love and romance, first love, love letter, couples, high school student, teen romance, youth, teenage girl, happy ending, sisterhood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Notting Hill (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style: romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, fame, social differences, love and romance, bookstore, opposites attract, power of love, paparazzi, love, friendship, male female relationship, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
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Clueless (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give ...
Style: feel good, teen, romantic, light, rom com ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, fashion, youth, teenage life, couples, opposites attract, teen romance, love and romance, popularity, teenage love, enemies to lovers ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
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, realistic, humorous, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, couples, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, pretend relationship, friendship, popularity, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Sure Thing (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures ...
Style: road movie, feel good, sex comedy, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: road trip, coming of age, college, on the road, couples, youth, fall in love, cross country, student life, love, high school, blonde ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Chasing Liberty (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working ...
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, white house, travel, youth, president, love and romance, love story, teen romance, working undercover, dishonesty, happy ending, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, washington d.c., prague, berlin germany, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Laggies (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a ...
Style: romantic, teen, independent film, cute, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, adult as child, youth, character study, adolescence, stereotypes, loneliness, love story, life philosophy, complex characters, relationships ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, love, coming of age, friendship, best friends in love, graduation, roommate, unlikely friendships, slacker, best friend, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: usa, seattle, chicago, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Never Been Kissed (1999)
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, light, romantic, touching, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, prom, journalist, journalism, teenage girl, popularity, high school life, humiliation, teenager, teen romance, friendship, reporter ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.8
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The First Time (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
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Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.4
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Boys and Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they ...
Style: romantic, teen, sentimental, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, college, young lovers, teenager, love and romance, teenage love, lovers, couples, singleness, chance meeting, cheerleader, lesbian sex ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, colorful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenager, love, youth, eviction, summer vacation, brat pack, obsession, voice over narration, feud, greed ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.2
 108K
Paper Towns (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he ...
Style: teen, exciting, road movie, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, travel, love, road trip, unrequited love, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, peru, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 16K
Ashby (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a ...
Style: melancholic, talky, touching, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, bullying, coming of age, assassin, classmate, friendship, mentor, relationships, redemption, existentialism, storytelling, stereotypes ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 189K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, breakup, rock, musician's life, love and romance, musician, rock and roll, character study, self discovery, love story, love, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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