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Waiting... (2005)
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Waiting... (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, clever, absurd, harsh, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: restaurant, teenager, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace, workplace romance, college, prank, staff, buddies, wooing, workplace situations, party, ambition, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, waiter, male nudity, high school, love, catastrophe, gangsters, business, drugs, artist ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new jersey, usa, california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and not serious films with plots about drinking alcohol, mentor, dialogue, friends, brutality, profanity and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Waiting...: Dazed and Confused (1993), Office Space (1999), Movie 43 (2013), American Wedding (2003), Ted 2 (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum ...
Style: feel good, talky, sentimental, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence vs adulthood, adolescence, party, friendship, weed, hippie, stoner, stoners, drugs ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, california, london, new jersey, austin texas ...
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Office Space (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
Style: funny, clever, humorous, feel good, absurd ...
Audience: kids
Plot: workplace, office, dark humor, corporate world, computer, rebelliousness, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, embezzlement, business, cult, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, dallas texas, mexico
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80%
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Movie 43 (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing ...
Style: parody, funny, not serious, absurd, ridiculous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: dark humor, irreverence, youth, teenage life, gross out humor, stupidity, society, toilet humor, escapades, buddies, dishonesty, satire ...
Time: year 1959, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, new york
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American Wedding (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married -- and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle -- prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, sexy, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night
Plot: wedding, teenager, looking for sex, college, silly humor, dumb, stupidity, high school, party, sex, older woman younger man relationship, bachelor party ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago illinois, usa, michigan
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100%
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Ted 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Style: funny, humorous, not serious, parody, absurd ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens
Plot: silly humor, vulgarity, lawyer, marijuana, teddy bear, adoption, foul language, buddies, talking animals, anthropomorphism, friends, odd couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 6.4
 260K
American Pie 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The whole gang are back and as close as ever. They decide to get even closer by spending the summer together at a beach house. They decide to hold the biggest party ever to be seen, even if the preparation doesn't always go to plan. Especially ...
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, ridiculous, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: party, college, looking for sex, high school, sex, youth, coming of age, farce, beach house, female nudity, female masturbation, sexual exploration ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 226K
Clerks (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style: funny, intellectual, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, sarcasm, workplace, slacker, everyday life, drugs, friendship between men, weed, loser, redemption, cult, job ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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American Reunion (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high-school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds ...
Style: ridiculous, funny, humorous, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: party, friendship, couple relations, friends, high school reunion, lifestyle, sexual attraction, sexual activity, buddies, husband wife relationship, weekend, masturbation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 316K
Neighbors (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Style: funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, parody ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: youth, fraternity, stupidity, high school, plan gone awry, rivalry, friendship, friends, college, manipulation, teenager, chase ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1971, 1930s, year 1985 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most money in one night: the winner stands to gain $10,000, ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, not serious ...
Plot: restaurant, farce, cooking and food, mentor, chef, food, boss and employee, workplace, power relations, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sex comedy, funny, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, nerd, sex, teenager, prank, high school, sorority, youth, bullying, cheerleading, cheerleader, college freshman ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: usa, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 798K
The Hangover (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: buddies, party, bachelor party, comedy of errors, friendship between men, memory loss, weirdo, nothing goes right, hung over, friends, wedding, drunkenness ...
Time: 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, north america, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 414K
American Pie (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, funny, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, party, virginity, high school, looking for sex, masturbation, adolescence, loss of virginity, teenage sexuality, teenage life, teenage sex ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Grandma's Boy (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But he gets kicked out of his apartment and is forced to move in with his ...
Style: funny, humorous, not serious, psychedelic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, stoners, marijuana, slacker, stupidity, roommate, workplace, geek, teenager, drugs, older woman younger man relationship, party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 236K
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, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: college, party, friendship, beer, fraternity, youth, caught cheating, teenager, high school, disorder, college life, college student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, canada, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 138K
Clerks II (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.
Style: humorous, funny, witty, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: workplace, friendship, slacker, geek, bachelor party, masturbation, fast food restaurant, everyday life, nerd, weed, loser, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 76K
21 & Over (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.
Style: humorous, not serious, ridiculous, funny, absurd ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: college, youth, friends, college life, college student, high school, buddies, nothing goes right, plan gone awry, adolescence vs adulthood, party, university ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Smiley Face (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jane (Anna Faris), a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats ...
Style: surreal, humorous, stylized, funny, absurd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: marijuana, stoners, goofy hero, drugs, escapades, stoner, roommate, youth, stoned, comedy of errors, actor's life, paranoid ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 135K
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, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: college, teenager, high school, slacker, youth, party, college life, cheerleading, education, coming of age, college student, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, yale university, ohio, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in ...
Style: teen sex comedy, funny, light, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: college, party, youth, fraternity, student life, teenager, high school, coming of age, college life, flirting, sex, opposites attract ...
Time: 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Where the #$&% Is Santa? (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the midst of a trip to Finland to find the perfect Christmas gift for his wife, Missy, skateboarding superstar MTV personality Bam Margera is struck by inspiration to find the elusive Santa clause.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, offbeat
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: christmas, silly humor, friends, disorder, buddies, escapades, farce, prank, found footage, jackass, north pole, trick ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 70K
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
Plot: beer, competition, german, sport, college, ambition, championship, disorder, underdog, rivalry, buddies, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, colorado, munich germany, europe, usa ...
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34%
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The House Bunny (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sexy, funny, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot: sorority, college, rivalry, youth, friendship, personality change, makeover, college life, women, friends, female friendship, playboy magazine ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 216K
Project X (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three high school seniors throw a party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Style: ridiculous, teen sex comedy, funny, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: high school, teenager, party, youth, adolescence, when the parents are away, friends, teenage life, student, popularity, buddies, birthday party ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: california, new jersey, usa, los angeles, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 172K
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: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, road movie, sexy, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night
Plot: road trip, college, sex, high school, teenager, teenage sex, sex tape, cross country, party, loss of virginity, race against time, stupidity ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, boston, new york state, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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: feel good, humorous, absurd, talky, entertaining ...
Plot: farce, misfit, stupidity, friendship, happy ending, dumb, corporate world, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, goofy hero, loser, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Role Models (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look ...
Style: funny, entertaining, feel good, romantic, buddy movie ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick
Plot: lifestyle change, community service, dimwit, adolescence, friends, farce, teaching the ways of the world, youth, character change, young heroes, friendship, superhero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.5
 13K
College (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen.
Style: humorous, light, not serious, funny, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: college, fraternity, high school, prank, lifestyle, friendship, frat party, teenage life, youth, teenager, chaos and mayhem, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.6
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Superbad (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, nerd, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, loss of virginity, friendship, dumb, pig ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%