Movies like The Wackness
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The Wackness (2008)
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny, light, psychedelic, feel good, depressing, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, marijuana, teenager, dysfunctional family, drugs, depression, high school, friendship, fall in love, misfit, drug abuse, loneliness, hip hop, weed, first love, doctors and patients, love affair, social misfits, lifestyle, buddies, gangsters, summer, midlife crisis, virginity, love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 1990s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, california, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and melancholic films with plots about friendship, dialogue, coming of age, mentor, drinking alcohol, storytelling and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Wackness: Adventureland (2009), SLC Punk! (1998), Igby Goes Down (2002), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Charlie Bartlett (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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163K
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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style:
realistic, harsh, intense, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, subculture, rebelliousness, self destructing, coming of age, rock, rebellion, breaking the fourth wall, drug overdose, friendship, drugs, antisocial behavior ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
north dakota, california, utah, england, woodstock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style:
depressing, cynical, humorous, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, dysfunctional family, addiction, depression, existentialism, dark humor, youth, teenage life, eccentric family, character study, eccentricity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, chicago illinois, new jersey, washington d.c., connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, sentimental, funny, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, depression, friendship, psychiatric ward, teenage love, adolescence, teenage life, anxiety, mental institution, teenage boy, supportive friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most ...
Style:
entertaining, cynical, sentimental, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
drugs, coming of age, youth, adolescence, teenager, high school, psychiatrist, misfit, bully, girlfriend, cheerleading, rich kid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, depressing, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
wales, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
Style:
emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, youth, addiction, teenager, depression, psychologist, self discovery, lifestyle, teenage life, drugs, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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:
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Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, rhode island, new jersey, connecticut, new england ...
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23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style:
touching, sincere, melancholic, emotional, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, teenage life, couples, first love, teenage love, high school, family relations, classmate, drinking problem, love ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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219K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sweet, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
depression, coming of age, funeral, self discovery, friendship, drugs, psychiatrist, melancholy, family relations, dysfunctional family, small town, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, friendship between men, homecoming, family relations, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, africa, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style:
surreal, absurd, melancholic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, teenage love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of virginity, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, wooing, teenage life ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
california, canada, usa, oakland california, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, sexual
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, sexual relations, high school life, love and romance, best friends, teenager, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new jersey, russia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, surreal, dark, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
afterlife, suicide, depression, road trip, death, hitchhiker, russian, friendship, mental illness, on the road, suicide attempt, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, talky, touching, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, love, coming of age, infidelity, suburbs, marital problem, american dream, first love, marriage, violence, teenage love, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, campy, absurd, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
librarian, library, female protagonist, friendship, nightclub, party, prejudice, coming of age, drugs, creativity, bullying, school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona, The Lords of Flatbush is a low budget film starring Perry King, Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone (who also wrote additional dialog). Set in the late 1950s, the coming-of-age story follows four ...
Style:
realistic, intense, stylized, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, friendship, coming of age, greaser, adolescence, youth, self discovery, goofy hero, human nature, friends, buddies, parents and children ...
Time:
50s, future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, sexy, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
self discovery, age difference, depression, marriage, love and romance, starting over, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the ...
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funny, humorous, witty, absurd, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
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sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, sexy ...
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teens, kids, date night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois, new jersey, hawaii, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, sexy, sweet, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, interracial relations, multiple storylines, fall in love, looking for love, city life, young lovers, couple relations, lifestyle, couples, friendship, first love ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, sincere, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, depression, personal assistant, starting over, twists and turns, self fulfillment, fall in love, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, buddies, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer, teenager, friendship, vacation, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style:
touching, cynical, emotional, harsh, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style:
light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
sex, relationships, infidelity, womanizer, love, obsession, friendship, unlikely friendships, friends, couples, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, clever, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
masseur, infidelity, marriage, divorce, relationships, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, stereotypes, nude, life & death, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sexy, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, older woman younger man relationship, childhood, lifeguard, sex scene, coming of age, relationships, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, school, adaptation, stereotypes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new jersey, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
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Time:
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Place:
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18%
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