Movies like Strangers with Candy 2005

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Strangers with Candy (2005)
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Strangers with Candy (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over.
Style: humorous, parody, satirical, stylized, semi serious, dark comedy, absurd, black comedy, laugh out loud, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual relations, prostitute, addiction, fish out of water, high school life, teachers and students, high school, teacher, satire, dark humor, female protagonist, family drama, parenthood, love triangle, gays and lesbians, gender, disorder, school, lesbian, drug addict, teacher student relationship, lgbtq, talk show host, starting over, junkie ...
Time: year 2005, contemporary
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and witty films with plots about disorder, high school, satire, youth, love and romance, high school life and teenage life mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Strangers with Candy: The Hebrew Hammer (2003), Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996), Breaking Wind (2012), Kids in America (2005), American High School (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus's evil son.
Style: parody, humorous, satirical, stylized, not serious ...
Plot: hanukkah, christmas, satire, blaxploitation, holiday, good versus evil, vigilantism, religions or cults, secret identity, obsessive quest, society, undercover ...
Place: jerusalem
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100%
Strangers with Candy (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Strangers with Candy is a television series produced by Comedy Central. It first aired on April 7, 1999, and concluded its third and final season on October 2, 2000. Its timeslot was Sundays at 10:00 p.m.. In 2007, Strangers with Candy was ranked ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, sketch comedy, black comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, looking for sex, teachers and students, sketch, teenager, dysfunctional family, children, satire, female protagonist, social satire, boss, misfit ...
Time: 90s
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100%
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
Style: cult classic, humorous, clever, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: satire, depression, addiction, obsession, scientist, insanity, cancer, marketing, drug, cognitive science, lgbtq, advertising ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
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100%
Breaking Wind (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A comedic spoof based on the worldwide phenomenon "The Twilight Saga."
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, spoof, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, werewolf, youth, supernatural ability, supernatural, teenage life, teenage love, disorder, love triangle, imaginary, rivalry, high school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kids in America (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, high school, school, sexual relations, teenage life, friendship, lifestyle, high school life, power relations, hopes, society, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Hark! The Herald Pundit Sings! America’s favorite Christmas tradition is now on DVD! Families have gathered around the TV to enjoy Stephen Colbert’s Christmas specials every year since 2008. Now, you can experience the joy over and over! Join ...
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: christmas, disorder, satire, nothing goes right, variety show, holiday, xmas, media, dangerous animal, confined, confinement indoors, show tunes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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29%
American High School (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Small lives begin at the end of high school for this surreal society. A senior who married young must contend with her life, love, and pursuit of individuality and femininity in a narcissistic, misogynistic world of irony. Gwen Adams, her husband ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: high school, teenager, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, high school life, youth, love triangle, sexy teenager, looking for sex, couple relations, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
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Cedar Rapids (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Style: funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: insurance, friendship, justice, adultery, adaptation, dysfunctional family, greed, happy ending, life philosophy, road trip, friends, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa, minnesota, wisconsin
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100%
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Stella Street (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, social decay, culture clash, showbiz, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, buddies ...
Time: 60s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sexual, sexy, humorous, spectacular ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: sex, high school, nude girl, bare breasts, voyeur, teenager, school, nudity, prank, teenage sex, male nudity, revenge ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 1950s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Lower Learning (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: youth, hardcase students, school, dedicated educator, fighting the system, against the odds, society, misfit, idealism, teenage life, high school life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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27%
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Bad Girls (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A rebellious teen butts heads with the teachers at an all-girl charm school in Mexico City.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: high school, cruelty, popular girl, teenage life, best friend, campaign, power relations, society, social misfits, politics, teachers and students, friend ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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
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27%
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Ultrachrist! (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What would Jesus do if he returned to Earth and discovered he could no longer relate to the youth of today?
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fish out of water, satire, destiny, religions or cults, clergy, society, heroes, disorder, antichrist, messiah, jesus, jesus christ ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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, hilarious, light ...
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 ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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26%
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style: humorous, absurd, satirical, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: filmmaking, death, actor's life, showbiz, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, cons and scams, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, france, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Dirty Deeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds, an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed by the Homecoming banquet at 9 a.m.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, teenager, bully, cheerleader, stereotypes, friends, rivalry, college, teenage sex, lifestyle, coming of age, prank ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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18-Year-Old Virgin (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a series of sexual mishaps, a high school senior tries to lose her virginity on the last night before graduation.
Style: teen sex comedy, erotic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: loss of virginity, couples, buddies, erotica, partner, teenage life, friends, youth, love and romance, virginity, high school life, looking for sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Comic Book Villains (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be ...
Style: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot: small town, internet, dark humor, dishonesty, comic book, satire, friendship, rivals, feud, old woman, male female relationship, death ...
Time: y2k
Place: barcelona
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26%
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Scary Movie (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Following on the heels of popular teen-scream horror movies, with uproarious comedy and biting satire. Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen Electra pitch in to skewer some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including Scream, ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, slasher ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: satire, youth, adolescence, sarcasm, stupidity, absurd humor, graphic violence, creativity, serial killer, high school, dark humor, dumb ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
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25%
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Deuce Bigalow goes to Amsterdam after a little accident including two irritating kids and a bunch of aggressive dolphins. There he meets up with his old friend T.J. Hicks. But a mysterious killer starts killing some of Amsterdam's finest ...
Style: funny, humorous, satirical, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prostitute, pimp, police investigation, false accusation, gigolo, fall in love, investigation, goofy hero, disorder, working undercover, looking for love, silly humor ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland, malibu california
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25%
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Trippin' (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His ...
Style: hood, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, prom, youth, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, college, college life, black, ghetto, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
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25%
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The Sex Monster (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurotic L.A. building contractor (Mike Binder in his best Woody Allen imitation) pushes his wife (Mariel Hemingway) into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a ...
Style: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for sex, threesome, lesbian sex, lesbian, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, infidelity, love affair, looking for love, love triangle, sexually dissatisfied wife, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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25%
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The Graduates (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, captivating
Plot: beach, high school student, satire, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, buddies, young lovers, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
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25%
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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
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25%
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The original 70's TV family is now placed in the 1990's, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
Style: humorous, parody, satirical, funny, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: house, family relations, fighting the system, fish out of water, save the day, parents and children, satire, disorder, rivalry, siblings relations, high school, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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25%
How to Make Love to a Woman (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When Andy hears his girlfriend Lauren sigh after sex, he panics. But even with the help of his friends, porn stars and tantric experts, he continues to stumble in the bedroom, finally realizing that in order to give Lauren the 'O' word, he ...
Style: sexy, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, sex scene, sexual relations, comedy of errors, disorder, love and romance, love affair, couples, teenager, communication problem, gender, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Pool Boys (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sex addict, prostitute, intern, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, illegal prostitution, celebrity culture, party, sex, prostitution, lie ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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24%
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: therapy, glbt, gay interest, psychiatrist, bisexual man, sexual relations, couples, power relations, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gender, doctors and patients ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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