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Staten Island Summer (2015)
8K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style:
humorous, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic, funny, light, sexy, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, lifeguard, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, summer, party, beach, girl, cousin, youth, friends, swimming, buddies, boss and employee, power relations, bare chested male, cycling, monster, school, revenge, children ...
Time:
80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Most similar movies to Staten Island Summer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about youth, coming of age, friends, teenager, friendship, buddies and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Staten Island Summer: Adventureland (2009), Funeral Kings (2012), Expelled (2014), The To Do List (2013), Dazed and Confused (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
174K
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, sentimental, independent film, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, summer job, friendship, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, youth, misfit, young adult ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1987, 2000s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, boston, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, altar boy, friendship between boys, youth, group of friends, teenage boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, male friendship, boy, sexual content ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, disgusting, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
high school, coming of age, prankster, teenage life, school expulsion, high school life, friends, youth, college, power relations, bare chested male, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, humorous, erotic, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, female sexuality, sex, teenage girl, happy ending, looking for sex, first sex, teenage love, loss of virginity, youth, love and romance, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1993, 80s
Place:
idaho, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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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:
teen, cult classic, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, adolescence, teenager, friendship, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, party, last day of school, bullying, student, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, seattle, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
Style:
captivating, humorous, feel good, light, scenic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dating, youth, high school, friendship, prom, teenage love, hip hop, society, lifestyle, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Four guys, one camera, and their experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage: losing your virginity. As these guys help their buddy get laid, they'll have to survive friends with benefits, Internet hookups, even porn ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
loss of virginity, male virgin, found footage, profanity, looking for sex, virginity, silly humor, friends, buddies, youth, obsession, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, lifestyle, ambition, buddies, youth, love and romance, teenage life, friendship, resort, adolescence vs adulthood, skiing ...
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, sexy, sweet, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer, teenager, coming of age, vacation, friendship, shyness, loneliness, teenage girl, youth, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When nerdy high schooler Dani finally attracts the interest of her longtime crush, she lands in the cross hairs of his ex, a social media celebrity.
Style:
romantic, realistic, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
high school, teenage life, popularity, character change, youth, social media, teenager, love and romance, dream, conflict between friends, deception, sister sister relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, independent film ...
Plot:
college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, campus, fake dating, teenager, academician ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new england, yale university
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.
Style:
light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Plot:
lifeguard, surfing, coming of age, sea, summer, teenage boy, best friend, first love, teenage girl, friendship between boys, beefcake, workplace situations ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable ...
Style:
humorous, funny, realistic, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boot camp, basic training, military life, male virgin, military, virginity, adaptation, friendship, gay soldier, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, arkansas, seattle, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
Style:
sexy, light, humorous, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, youth, summer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, couples, coming of age, death of grandmother, love, exploring sexuality, love and romance, teenager ...
Time:
year 2003
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A pair of high school rappers have two major goals - make music and get hot girls. The best way to get both is to throw the biggest and best house party ever! The night of the party, one of the boys is grounded by his parents, so it's up to his ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, light, rom com ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nothing goes right, youth, disorder, buddies, teenage life, friends, hip hop, party, urban, profanity, sexual content, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
686K
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, teen, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
high school, teenager, nerd, adolescence, coming of age, youth, teenage life, dumb, loss of virginity, friendship, bromance, sex ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. Inspired by a true story and remake of the Belgian film Hasta La Vista
Style:
road movie, sincere, humorous, semi serious, cute
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
paralysis, disability, brothel, self discovery, quadriplegic, friends, escapades, buddies, obsessive quest, terminal illness, friendship, independence ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adam Harris, a semi-lame senior, is head over heels in love with Cara. Unfortunately she is the most popular girl in school. On the one day of the year that he could actually have a chance, senior skip day, he screws it all up by accidentally ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
party, high school, sex scene, public nudity, sexual fantasy, coitus, voyeurism, voyeur, female nudity, school, buddies, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
NOT COOL follows former prom king and college freshman Scott (Shane Dawson) who has just returned home for Thanksgiving break only to be dumped by his eccentric, long-term girlfriend. With his world turned upside down, Scott strikes an unlikely ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, romantic, teen ...
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, youth, college life, unlikely couple, couples, friends, small town, homecoming, love, male nudity, college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
opposites attract, student life, buddies, rich and poor, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, boss and employee, concierge, teenager, in love, doorman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Style:
sexy, independent film, sincere, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, art, sex shop, poetry, writers, workplace, self discovery, loneliness, creativity, adolescence vs adulthood, workplace situations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
lifeguard, surfing, drowning, teenager, coming of age, friendship, beach, profanity, buddies, youth, family relations, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, chicago
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, cons and scams, teenage life, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, buddies, lifestyle, youth, battle of the sexes, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, bleak, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, debauchery, nihilism, teenage boy, drug, friendship, drug dealing, sarcasm, friend, slacker, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Twelve friends spend one last great summer together, partying and reminiscing, ultimately realizing they will soon go their separate ways in life
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
college, dog, friendship, teenage life, partner, youth, lifestyle, buddies, sex, teenager, friends, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1985 a summer vacation in Ocean City, Md., changes the life of a shy white teen who's obsessed with table tennis and hip-hop music.
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, vacation, friends, contests and competitions, rivalry, friendship, youth, ping pong, society, summer, game, table tennis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
usa, maryland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Filmed in a single continuous shot, the comedy follows an elclectic group of uptight philosophy students as they cut loose at a house party on their last night together.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hardcase students, youth, college life, college, graduate student, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, twentysomething life, student life, looking for sex, college graduate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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