Movies like School for Scoundrels

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School for Scoundrels (2006)
 5.9
 31K
School for Scoundrels (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, light, hilarious, not serious, stylized, parody, entertaining, anamorphic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loser, farce, rivalry, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, teachers and students, cons and scams, low self esteem, high school, gang, traffic policeman, teacher, college, tennis, competition, lovesick, traffic cop, school, love triangle, cheating, profanity, sexual content, down on your luck, dignity, hypocrisy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york
Keyword: loud, australian, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and funny films with plots about silly humor, disorder, profanity, friends, rivalry, friendship and buddies mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like School for Scoundrels: Anger Management (2003), Duplex (2003), Mr. Woodcock (2007), Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), Beerfest (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anger Management (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, hilarious ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, date night, teens
Plot: reluctant partners, bullying, therapist, rage, doctors and patients, twists and turns, life philosophy, psychiatrist, dark humor, irreverence, treatment, misfit partners ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, boston, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 61K
Duplex (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, couple relations, cons and scams, neighbor neighbor relationship, writers, old woman, parrot, satire, old dark house, urbanization, love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 37K
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, vengeance, writers, transformation, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, haunted by the past, teachers and students, rivalry, family relations, humiliation, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
Style: funny, humorous, romantic, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teacher, high school life, high school, teachers and students, fish out of water, school, happy ending, sister sister relationship, robbery, released from prison, cons and scams, black ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 71K
Beerfest (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: competition, beer, college, ambition, championship, disorder, buddies, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, underdog, training, stoner ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: germany, colorado, munich germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 16K
Sorority Boys (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three friends who head the Social Committee in a frat house, called KOK (Kappa Omicron Kappa), are charged with stealing money their fraternity has been saving for a cocktail cruise at the end of the semester, the one that guarantees them a spot at ...
Style: humorous, funny, not serious, slapstick, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cross dressing, college, student life, farce, hidden identity, high school, sorority, stereotypes, stupidity, fish out of water, transvestite, comedy of errors ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 242K
Old School (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, hilarious, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: college, college life, friendship, beer, fraternity, public nudity, youth, caught cheating, high school, disorder, college student, stoner ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.8
 1K
Pool Party (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's your standard guy-fails-bar-exam-loses-girlfriend-works-for-a-lunatic-and-is-stalked-by-a-monkey-clown story ...with a twist.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: boss and employee, youth, friends, couples, farce, sexual relations, workplace, lifestyle, silly humor, rivalry, girl, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: marijuana, high school, slacker, silly humor, drug dealing, teachers and students, youth, social relations, fall in love, high school life, friends, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 156K
Billy Madison (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly
Plot: graduation, elementary school, stupidity, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, family business, mentor, happy ending, father son relationship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Rising executive Tim Wagner works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, talky, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: farce, misfit, stupidity, friendship, happy ending, dumb, corporate world, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, goofy hero, loser, employer employee relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 177K
Road Trip (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, road movie, sexy, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night ...
Plot: road trip, college, sex, high school, teenage sex, sex tape, cross country, on the road, foot fetish, stoner, nerd, party ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place: usa, austin texas, new york state, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
28%
The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: disorder, misfit, wooing, high school, win over, nothing goes right, youth, social relations, coming of age, girl, college, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: baseball, youth, mentor, contests and competitions, ambition, coming of age, bullying, group of friends, clumsiness, vengeance, millionaire, pizza ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Style: humorous, hilarious, entertaining, funny, intense ...
Plot: magic, friendship, creativity, showbiz, comeback, artists and showbiz, partner, disorder, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, performer's life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2013, year 1982, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.0
 5K
Cheats (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenage life, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 5K
Coffee Town (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Three thirty-something friends band together when their carefree existence is threatened.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, coffee shop, thirtysomething life, workplace, lifestyle, love and romance, rivalry, cafe, workplace situations, escapades, food, thirty something ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 39K
The Ringer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mentally challenged, rivalry, running, friendship, love and romance, lie, gambling, pretense, track and field, disability, down syndrome, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.3
 177K
Blades of Glory (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: skating, competition, olympics, figure skating, farce, rivalry, championship, friendship, life philosophy, coach, satire, ambition ...
Time: year 2007, year 2013, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, montreal, north korea, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
General Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, summer school, youth, high school life, social relations, parents and children, college, ambition, friendship, rivalry, fall in love, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Ladies Man (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, melancholic, parody ...
Plot: farce, dialogue, drinking, coming of age, unlikely friendships, nothing goes right, workplace, singleness, college life, college, down on your luck, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Wake Up Ron Burgundy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to make the truth known, whatever that may mean...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: journalism, nothing goes right, ambition, ego clash, buddies, workplace, battle of the sexes, rivalry, media satire, farce, workplace situations, satire ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 38K
The New Guy (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Style: feel good, funny, teen, hilarious, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, high school, bullying, friendship, starting over, stereotypes, high school life, cheerleader, teenage love, misfit, cheerleading, youth ...
Time: y2k, 2000s
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
 8K
High School (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, funny, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: weed, high school, stoner, youth, cheerleader, fighting the system, teenage life, misfit, against the rules, nothing goes right, rebellion, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.1
 165
Beef (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: BEEF is a comedic spin on a real person courtroom show. Set in a NY deli, BEEF revolves around Lou, his family, and the cases he settles. People march in with a "beef" for Lou to solve with old-school advice, simple justice, or a fine cut ...
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Plot: courtroom, judge, rivalry, workplace, legal, workplace situations, society, store, family relations, silly humor, courtroom drama
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 290K
Zoolander (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic "he's so hot right now" Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the ...
Style: funny, humorous, parody, light, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: conspiracy, fashion model, male model, brainwashing, satire, fashion, assassination, dumb, stoner, fame, president, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.1
 137K
The Campaign (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Style: parody, funny, political, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: congressman, politics, election, campaign, farce, campaigning, twists and turns, profanity, satire, election campaign, mentor, political corruption ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
 5K
Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot: idiot, stupidity, chase, firefly, crazy, dumb, police corruption, buddy, ballet, dishonesty, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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