Movies like 1987

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1987 (2014)
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1987 (2014)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1987 Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, virginity, teenage life, youth, love and romance, buddies, summer job, sexual initiation, biopic, teenager, boy, teenage boy, 17 year old, nudity, dancing, school, female nudity, family relations, sexuality, masturbation, nightclub, male masturbation, telephone call, disco, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: canada, quebec

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, teenage life, coming of age, love and romance, teenager, family relations and high school mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like 1987: The Year I Became a Liar (2009), Cheeky Girls (2008), No Regrets (2001), Moscow Square (2001), Higher Education (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Year I Became a Liar (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, emotional, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, working class, youth, family relations, family life, misfit, cons and scams, social differences, physical appearance, husband wife relationship, friendship, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1942, year 1965 ...
Place: canada, italy, quebec, montreal
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school life, school, young love, friends, youth, high school, teenage life, teachers and students, teenage crush, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Virgin Queen of St. Francis High (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A high school jock bets his friends that he can score with the school beauty queen, who is also a virgin.
Style: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virginity, bet, love, teenager, canuxploitation, fall in love, gender, love and romance, youth, couples, social relations, friends ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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No Regrets (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This teenage drama deals with the emotional chaos of a high school graduate at the beginning of a new period of his life. 19-year-old Daniel is frustrated: he wants his great love Luca to be the "first" woman in his life, but she seems to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, puberty, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, male virgin, sexuality, first time, virginity, porn, coming of age, youth ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Moscow Square (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: graduation, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, high school, coming of age, political unrest, party, teenage love, high school friends, sexuality, atmosphere ...
Time: 80s
Place: hungary, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Higher Education (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Another Canadian screwball comedy involving a horny college man who can't decide between his girlfriend and his teacher.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, teacher student sex, teenager, college life, teacher student relationship, canuxploitation, nudity, youth, love and romance, social relations, power relations, discrimination ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Seoul Searching (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea, China, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1980s a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to learn what it means to be Korean. The three boys, from the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, then meet three girls who rock their world.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, fall in love, teenage love, love and romance, youth, camp, society, immigrant, teenager, friendship, rivalry, kickass ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: seoul, korea, east asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Acne (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional family, and a lowered self-esteem, getting this much anticipated first kiss proves trickier than expected. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, sex comedy ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, teenage boy, lifestyle, society, youth, sexual awakening, friendship, self discovery, family relations, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Bart Got a Room (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Everyone is searching for love in director Brian Hecker's semi-autobiographical story. Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prom, cheerleader, teenage love, wooing, love and romance, looking for sex, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, friends, self discovery, buddies, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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
Plot: teachers and students, youth, love affair, lifestyle, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, college, teacher, power relations, high school, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.8
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The First Time (2012)
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, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenager, love, first love, love and romance, teenage love, first sex, teenage life, virginity, teenage girl, virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where ...
Style: intense, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, unlikely friendships, human nature, contests and competitions, friends, addiction, fall in love, lifestyle, friendship, family relations ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
28%
The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Too Young to Marry (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lovers reunited, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, wish come true, college life, unfulfilled love, coming of age, youth, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut
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26%
My American Cousin (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, summer, teen romance, biopic, bittersweet, forbidden love, single parent, fall in love, youth, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time: 1950s, year 1985, 50s
Place: british columbia, canada, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.5
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Short Skin (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, anxiety, surgery, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, misfit, youth, masturbation, male nudity, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, israeli, israeli culture, aunt, black market, bar mitzvah, family relations, love and romance, society, young heroes, fall in love ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Rachel Papers (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th from college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, romantic drama, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, making love, college, sex scene, infatuation, teenager, teen angst, angst, female nudity, power relations, couples, family relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: europe, england, oxford university
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25%
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Picture This (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bookish and unpopular Mandy finds her luck finally changing when Drew, the school hottie, invites her to the year's biggest party. But with being grounded and Drew's ex-girlfriend bent on thwarting her, Mandy may be destined to remain a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, high school life, love and romance, teenage love, wooing, high school hunk, teenage life, youth, nightlife, lifestyle, family relations, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Learning to Lie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sexual
Plot: teenage love, family relations, looking for love, teenage life, youth, teenage crush, berlin wall, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stasi, erotica, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, berlin germany
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25%
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Cupid's Balls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: football, teenage love, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, youth, buddies, ambition, social relations, village, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
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 ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, best friend, sex, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, teenage love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: chicago, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.6
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Gettin' In (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A trio of clueless minors embark on a quest to get into the local bar, in the hopes of scoring with the opposite sex.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: loss of virginity, underage drinking, masturbation, obsessive quest, teenage life, father son relationship, friends, escapades, disorder, buddies, youth, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Rockford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that would look ...
Style: social, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, child, soul searching, boy, boarding school, best friend, family relations, friends, power relations, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Bert: The Last Virgin (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: looking for sex, coming of age, loss of virginity, high school, teenage life, parents and children, high school hunk, teenage love, love and romance, youth, family relations, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around ...
Style: touching, teen, feel good, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: school, high school, coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love and romance, parents and children, high school life, teenager, puberty ...
Time: 2000s
Place: england, brighton, europe, new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.6
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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 ⇓
24%
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The Party 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The second film from the Le Boum series about a young French teenage girl who after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenager, puberty, high school life, love, coming of age, first time, wedding, celebration, holiday, daughter, teenage crush ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: paris france, france, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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