Movies like Superstar

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Superstar (1999)
 5.2
 20K
Superstar (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies, and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
Style: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, feel good, not serious, funny, slapstick, romantic, skit, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cheerleader, school, high school, catholic school, happy ending, love and romance, teenage life, contests and competitions, nerdy girl, friendship, follow your dream, unfulfilled love, fish out of water, hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, loser, lesbian, breakup, emo, teenage girl, voyeur, catholic schoolgirl, youth, friends ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Superstar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and semi serious films with plots about high school, teenager, youth, love and romance, friendship, school and teenage girl mostly in Comedy, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Superstar: Bring It On (2000), John Tucker Must Die (2006), How I Got Into College (1989), Sugar & Spice (2001), Clueless (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.1
 105K
Bring It On (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain, ...
Style: feel good, teen, entertaining, romantic, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, dancing, teenage girl, teenager, popular girl, friendship, adolescence, female protagonist, competition, high school life ...
Time: 2000s, 1900s, year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: florida, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
John Tucker Must Die (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his ...
Style: romantic, funny, teen, entertaining, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, womanizer, teenager, high school life, teenage girl, teen romance, popularity, cheerleader, teenage love, school, teenage life, cheerleading ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How I Got Into College (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, satirical, romantic, light ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, high school, coming of age, teenager, police investigation, justice, storytelling, stereotypes, happy ending, adaptation, multiple storylines, mentor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 15K
Sugar & Spice (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, heist, cheerleading, cheerleader, friendship, satire, teenage love, rebel, dark humor, girl gang, buddies, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 243K
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 ⇓
100%
 4.3
 15K
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.
Style: parody, surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, yoga, female friendship, friendship, prejudice, family drama, gory, spoiled girl, yoga instructor, sister sister relationship, lesbian, nazi ...
Time: year 1945, 1930s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are ...
Style: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, murder, small town, farce, obsession, satire, dark humor, twists and turns, manipulation, blind ambition, cheerleader, trailer park ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1995
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, cult classic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: nightclub, dumb, buddies, brother brother relationship, misfit, father son relationship, marriage, love and romance, disorder, clubbing, stoner, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Slap Her, She's French! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: high school, cheerleader, culture clash, cheerleading, fish out of water, youth, unfulfilled love, high school life, contests and competitions, small town life, lifestyle, young lovers ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: texas, france, austin texas, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.1
 7K
Lost & Found (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, romantic, sweet, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: neighbor, love story, happy ending, justice, love and romance, buddies, unfulfilled love, friendship, looking for love, nothing goes right, couples, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.4
 101K
The DUFF (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, high school life, coming of age, school, adolescence, friendship, teenage life, stereotypes, college, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 103K
She's All That (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, opposites attract, youth, teen romance, adolescence, bet, high school life, fall in love, young love, teenage girl, teenage love ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 127K
Just Friends (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: true love, best friends in love, christmas, love and romance, holiday, friends in love, male female friendship, love, friendship, couples, fall in love, snow ...
Time: year 2005, year 1995, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.6
 7K
Trojan War (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into many obstacles along the way, while not knowing his best friend, Leah is in love with him.
Style: hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: best friends in love, college, love, teenage love, teenage life, student, party, high school, teenager, friends to lovers, road trip, gang ...
Time: 90s, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Private School (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, sex, voyeurism, girls' boarding school, high school, female pubic hair, cheerleader, friends, voyeur, female nudity, college, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nate moves to L.A. to track down Cristabel, the woman he's been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one hurdle to overcome: what to do with June, Cristabel's ever-present, not-so-hot best ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, touching, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: dream girl, misfit, best friend, love and romance, looking for love, cons and scams, unfulfilled love, blonde, rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, transformation, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, sexy, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fish out of water, workplace, boss and employee, stupidity, dumb, father daughter relationship, goofy hero, misfit, disorder, looking for love, obnoxious boss, estate ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 5.7
 20K
Get Over It (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring ...
Style: romantic comedy, feel good, romantic, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, shakespeare, fall in love, teenager, teenage life, love triangle, mentor, happy ending, adolescence, underdog, high school life, school ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.8
 42K
The To Do List (2013)
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, humorous, teen, teen sex comedy, sexual ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: virginity, female sexuality, teenage girl, sex, looking for sex, happy ending, first sex, high school, loss of virginity, teenager, youth, teenage life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 22K
Summer School (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with ...
Style: funny, laugh out loud, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: teacher, summer, summer school, teenager, high school, teacher student relationship, teaching, teenage girl, gym teacher, dyslexia, underage drinking, chainsaw ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, sexy, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, american football, high school, drag racing, teen angst, prank, small town, teenage girl, sexy teenager, exploitation, vandalism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Style: humorous, teen, funny, sex comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, misfit, youth, looking for sex, high school, party, dumb, stupidity, friendship, lifestyle, culture clash, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.3
 16K
Fathers' Day (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and when his father refuses to go after him. His mother, Collette, then goes to one of her former boyfriends, Jack, a lawyer, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack ...
Style: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, road movie, feel good ...
Plot: odd couple, father son relationship, friendship, parenthood, misfit partners, parents and children, family relations, family problems, disorder, on the road, teenage life, transformation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 969
Lovely Complex (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa (Ema Fujisawa), a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, romantic ...
Plot: true love, looking for love, high school life, teenage life, youth, misfit, friendship, happy ending, silly humor, disorder, school, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
My Teacher's Wife (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Todd Boomer is a college student aspiring to get into University. His chances are looking poor when his maths teacher, fails him in every maths test. Help arrives in the guise of the gorgeous Vicki, a mathematical genius who decides to tutor Todd. ...
Style: sexual, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: unfaithful wife, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, adultery, teacher student relationship, infidelity, older woman younger man, tutor, unlikely couple, teachers and students, female nudity, voyeur ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 464
Hatley High (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Canadian teen comedy Hatley High sends up high school sports rituals by placing a most unlikely competitive game at the center of its story: that of chess. Tommy (Nicholas Wright) is a new arrival in his parents' hometown of Hatley, whose ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: chess, cheerleader, teenage love, rivalry, love and romance, teenage life, ambition, small town life, school, wizards and magicians, teenager, high school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 415K
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, romantic, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, notoriety, love and romance, classmate, popularity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Christina's love life is stuck in neutral. After years of avoiding the hazards of a meaningful relationship, one night while club-hopping with her girlfriends, she meets Peter, her perfect match. Fed up with playing games, she finally gets the ...
Style: romantic, humorous, romantic comedy, feel good, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, roommate, road trip, fear of commitment, friendship, female protagonist, love and romance, best friend, nightclub, disorder, female friendship, relationships ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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