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Who Shot Patakango? (1989)
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Who Shot Patakango? (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during the late '50s which centers around the high school life of a group of teens that have to deal with racial tensions at their interracial vocational high school.
Style: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: school, false confession, teenage love, gang, friendship, youth, college, friends, racism, teachers and students, love and romance, profanity, interracial relations, high school life, teenage life, society, high school, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, coming of age, social relations, college life, adolescence vs adulthood, urban ghetto life, kids in trouble ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about youth, friends, teenage life, high school, high school life, coming of age and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Who Shot Patakango?: Just One of the Girls (1993), Harold (2008), The Liverpool Goalie (2010), The Night Before the Exams (2006), Trippin' (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Just One of the Girls (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love ...
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Time: 90s
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Harold (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, indie film
Audience: teens
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The Liverpool Goalie (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Jo is a smart thinker of a guy, and has a very vivid imagination, but is bothered by his fellow classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. Still he tries to cope with this difficult time in life. He's doing the ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, witty
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: soccer, friends, teenage love, friendship, love and romance, power relations, social relations, dark humor, high school, high school life, school, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
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The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, youth, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, italy
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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 ...
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Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
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The Weekend (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the spirit of "Superbad" and "Dazed and Confused," "The Weekend" relishes the moments that made being a teenager so excruciatingly painful and fantastic. Over the course of a single weekend, various teenagers ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, teen ...
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Time: 21st century
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Crash Course (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, driving school, driver, taxi, car crash, stoner, power relations, urban ghetto, misfit, dedicated educator, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 80s
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The Prankster (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
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The Utopian Society (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 6 college students from different backgrounds, are assigned to work together on a final project. These six students have so far spent no time together, can't stand each other and must pass this final assignment in order to pass the class. The ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
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American Sophomore (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A group of high school kids enjoy many adventures throughout their formative tenth grade year.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, light, teen comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, disorder, friends, youth, escapades, social relations, high school, nudity, high school life, female nudity, bare breasts, group ...
Time: 21st century
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Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and still no signs of the much anticipated ball-drop, Spud is coming to terms with the fact ...
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General Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
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We the Party (2012)
Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 105 min.
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Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped ...
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Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
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Class Act (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only ...
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Everybody's Doing It (2002)
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Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Comedy
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Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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All I Wanna Do (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike ...
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Place: new york state
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Acceptance (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
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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.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, psychological, humorous
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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Box Elder (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
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Schools Out (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: June 1990, a large provincial town. It's the last day of class before the baccalaureate: a small group of graduates happily leaves high school - In the ambient euphoria, Lucas empties his bag: without mince words, he says out loud to his ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time: 80s, year 1989
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