Movies like Starter for 10

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Starter for 10 (2006)
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Starter for 10 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, light, sweet, melancholic, touching, semi serious, clever, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, university, college, politics, social differences, happy ending, unlikely friendships, love triangle, youth, buddies, love and romance, couple relations, school, working class, marijuana, student, best friends in love, friendship, small town, nude, sport, catastrophe, teenager, fight, relationships ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: england, europe, india

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Most similar movies to Starter for 10

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, realistic, humorous and semi serious films with plots about runaway, culture clash, love, mentor, dialogue, destiny and love and romance mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Starter for 10: Notting Hill (1999), Pretty in Pink (1986), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Sydney White (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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: feel good, touching, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: fame, love and romance, couples, social differences, love, opposites attract, paparazzi, friendship, power of love, ordinary person, male female relationship, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 84K
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, sexy, feel good, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, friendship, teenage girl, class differences, father daughter relationship, relationships, love story, bullying, teen romance, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, light, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: soccer, football, sport, culture clash, hinduism, wedding, friendship, stereotypes, tradition, coach, coming of age, against the rules ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, india, europe, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, writers, couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, loneliness, love, multiple storylines, happy ending ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: england, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
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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: feel good, humorous, romantic, funny, modern fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot: college, sorority, popularity, rivalry, high school, student life, youth, fall in love, society, friendship, college life, female protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 157K
One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, love story, ambition, opposites attract, introspection, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, feel good, romantic, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, friends, high school life, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, london, europe, new zealand, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
 30K
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, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, teenager, friendship, women, food, commitment, siblings relations, small town life, teenage life, love and romance, adultery ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, london, england, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, adaptation, love, family relations, prank, honest, parents and children, american football, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, rhode island, new jersey, connecticut, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 72K
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, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love story, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virgin, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, new jersey, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, feel good, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, fall in love, single father, male female friendship, love story, best friends in love, true love, divorce, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, daughter, relationships ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, year 1994, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, professor, love, wedding, literature, self discovery, friendship, love story, spinster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, venice, london, manhattan new york city, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Liberal Arts (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to ...
Style: sweet, touching, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: college, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, fall in love, college student, thirtysomething life, dull life, depression, happy ending, college life, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
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Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, chance meeting, love, hopes, life philosophy, love story, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, nothing goes right, friendship, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style: feel good, light, romantic, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: love, love triangle, love and romance, love story, couples, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, flirting, workplace romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 21K
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, humorous, sex comedy, sweet ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: road trip, coming of age, college, on the road, youth, couples, fall in love, cross country, student life, love, high school, hitchhiking ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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, humorous, realistic, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: high school, nerd, teenager, friendship, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, couples, popularity, teenage girl, cheerleading, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Gregory's Girl (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his schoolfriends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, sexy, affectionate, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, soccer, high school, teenager, school, love, teenage love, relationships, british, cheerleading, love and romance, boy ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: scotland, new jersey, california, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
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: romantic, funny, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, friends, high school, teenager, college, coming of age, happy ending, relationships, best friend, grownups, lie, deception ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 163K
Adventureland (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style: romantic, funny, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: teenager, summer job, friendship, workplace, coming of age, amusement park, youth, drugs, marijuana, first sexual experience, college, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: california, pennsylvania, new jersey, usa, pittsburgh ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
She's Out of My League (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When he starts dating drop-dead gorgeous Molly, insecure airport security agent Kirk can't believe it. As his friends and family share their doubts about the relationship lasting, Kirk does everything he can to avoid losing Molly forever.
Style: sex comedy, romantic, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: odd couple, opposites attract, sex, couple relations, insecurity, confidence, shyness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stereotypes, birthday party, buddies, crumbling relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, las vegas, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 17K
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: feel good, touching, sexy, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: american football, coming of age, high school, teenager, cheerleader, youth, love, friendship, cheerleading, nerd, women, love story ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new jersey, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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, light, sweet, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, love, youth, opposites attract, couples, love story, cheerleading, first love, family disapproval, graduation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, california, washington state, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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A Lot Like Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style: romantic, sweet, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, happy ending, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, best friends in love, loneliness, travel, small town, encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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, romantic, humorous, sexy, intense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, date night, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, tomboy, high school, best friend, love triangle, teenager, love, cheerleading, friendship, teen romance, teenage love, love story ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.0
 398K
Easy A (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style: feel good, teen sex comedy, entertaining, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, youth, school, teenage girl, adolescence, teenage life, love and romance, classmate, notoriety, high school life ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 20K
Brassed Off (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At ...
Style: sexy, emotional, feel good, touching, light ...
Plot: small town, music, mining, relationships, working class, brass band, competition, hospital, musician, nude, greed, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s, 18th century
Place: england, yorkshire, london, scotland, northern england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 501K
Love Actually (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, love, marriage, love story, relationships, love and romance, fall in love, couples, first love, couple relations, looking for love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, marseille, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 187K
About a Boy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, father son relationship, loneliness, dating, mentor, bullying, dysfunctional family, christmas, childhood, motherhood, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, single father, love triangle, love story, relationships, love and romance, parenthood, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent, love, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%