Movies like Staten Island Summer

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Staten Island Summer (2015)
 5.6
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
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: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: lifeguard, summer, teenager, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, 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
Keyword: buddy movie

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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 light films with plots about friends, youth, coming of age, teenager, love and romance, friendship and teenage life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Staten Island Summer: Adventureland (2009), #RealityHigh (2017), Dazed and Confused (1993), The To Do List (2013), Funeral Kings (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, independent film, funny, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, summer job, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, friendship, youth, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, misfit, young adult ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, boston ...
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#RealityHigh (2017)
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, youth, character change, social media, teenager, deception, sister sister relationship, love and romance, friendship, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, teen, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, weed, party, bullying, drug, summer ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: texas, seattle, midwest, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
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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 ⇓
100%
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Funeral Kings (2012)
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, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
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Expelled (2014)
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, teenage life, prankster, coming of age, high school life, youth, friends, school expulsion, college, power relations, teenage girl, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Virginity Hit (2010)
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: humorous, not serious, sexy, teen sex comedy, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: loss of virginity, male virgin, found footage, looking for sex, virginity, silly humor, friends, youth, buddies, love and romance, obsession, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Way Way Back (2013)
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, realistic, teen, independent film, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: summer, teenager, vacation, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, dysfunctional family, boy, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 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, hilarious, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, coming of age, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, dumb, friendship, loss of virginity, bromance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
House Party: Tonight's the Night (2013)
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, friends, teenage life, buddies, hip hop, party, urban, profanity, silly humor, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
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We the Party (2012)
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: youth, dating, friendship, high school, prom, teenage love, hip hop, lifestyle, society, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Senior Skip Day (2008)
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: sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, party, school, youth, buddies, disorder, looking for sex, teacher, escapades, college, nightlife, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
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Winter Break (2003)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, teenage life, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, resort, ambition, lifestyle, buddies, youth, love and romance, college life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
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Adult World (2013)
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, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: art, coming of age, poetry, sex shop, workplace, self discovery, writers, loneliness, creativity, adolescence vs adulthood, workplace situations, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Ping Pong Summer (2014)
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: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, happy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, vacation, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, youth, friendship, society, summer, game, ping pong, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tenure (2008)
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, entertaining, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: college, workplace intrigue, teachers and students, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, teacher, business, fake dating ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 3K
Falling Up (2009)
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: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: opposites attract, buddies, student life, concierge, workplace situations, love and romance, workplace, rich and poor, boss and employee, teenager, in love, doorman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Little Darlings (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Style: cult classic, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, deep ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, summer camp, teenage sex, friendship, high school, teenager, sex, camp, summer, youth, loss of virginity, innocence lost ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 4.4
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LOL (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, youth, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, high school romance, coming of age, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: love and romance, friends, high school, college, coming of age, relationships, happy ending, best friend, profanity, deception, lie, grownups ...
Time: 80s, year 2011, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
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19%
 3.5
 6K
Not Cool (2014)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, scenic, teen ...
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, college life, youth, couples, unlikely couple, friends, small town, homecoming, love, college, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Kicking the Dog (2009)
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: semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, melancholic ...
Plot: college, dog, friendship, teenage life, buddies, youth, lifestyle, partner, teenager, sex, friends, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
 5K
Cheats (2002)
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, teenage life, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, teachers and students, teenager, scam, college ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Summer '03 (2018)
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: light, humorous, romantic, teen, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, summer, school, couples, love, love and romance, teenager, coming of age, girl, relationships ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 14K
Gung Ho (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and ...
Style: humorous, light, funny, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot: culture clash, business, workplace, worker, friendship, factory, labor union, society, buddies, unemployment, deception, car ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Everybody's Doing It (2002)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Stockholm Boogie (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: We are following the two cousins and best friends, Jerka and Hoffa, during a typical night out in Stockholm. It's summertime and anything can happen.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, light
Plot: friendship, couples, love and romance, silly humor, friends, buddies, lifestyle, breakup, singleness, summer, breaking up with girlfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.6
 503
Kick'n Rush (2003)
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
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth, buddies, society, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Ketchup Effect (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, high school, social relations, friendship, teenage life, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Remember the Daze (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, coming of age, high school prom, hardcase students, juvenile delinquency, underage drinking, love and romance, teenage life, teenage love, junior high school, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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