Movies like Drive-In

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Drive-In (1976)
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Drive-In (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, teen comedy
Plot: small town, heist, youth, kidnapping, friends, teenage life, coming of age, nothing goes right, disorder, small town life, mugging, teenager, revenge, police, gang, doctor, teenage girl, truck driver, rain, sheriff, disaster, robbery, smoking, teenage boy, loss of virginity ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: austin texas, texas
Keyword: americana, drive in, short shorts

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Most similar movies to Drive-In

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about friends, youth, disorder, teenage life, buddies, teenager and partner mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Drive-In: American Sophomore (2012), The Kid & I (2005), Mangus! (2011), One More Saturday Night (1986), Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.2
 2K
The Kid & I (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny ...
Plot: hollywood, friendship, partner, nothing goes right, disability, artists and showbiz, youth, odd couple, good versus evil, buddies, teenage life, wish come true ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 4.5
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Mangus! (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Mangus Spedgwick suffers an unforeseen tragedy that causes him to lose the role of Jesus in his high school's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, he fights with all he's got to get back the part, and carry on the family tradition.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot: family relations, small town, follow your dream, dark humor, youth, hopes, redemption, on the road, teenage life, disability, religions or cults, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
One More Saturday Night (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for a Saturday night.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teen angst, small town, partner, friends, social relations, artists and showbiz, betrayal, music band, buddies, terrorism, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 80s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: sheriff, small town, redneck, small town life, alcohol abuse, nothing goes right, society, lifestyle, social relations, disorder, violent content, boat ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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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.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, captivating
Plot: beach, high school student, satire, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, buddies, young lovers, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
High School U.S.A. (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in a senior high school class, J.J. (Michael J. Fox) pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, school, high school, teen angst, school bully, bullying, love, rivalry, cheerleader, school janitor, disorder, friends ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: colorado, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.
Style: humorous, offbeat, witty, semi serious, realistic
Plot: country music, hicksploitation, music band, on the run, pursuit, triumph, disorder, friends, chase, criminal heroes, chases and races, unlikely partners ...
Time: year 1975, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: tennessee, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Hollidaysburg (2014)
Genre: Comedy
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, society, college, woman, coming of age, small town life, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Midnight Madness (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
Style: cult classic, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: competition, college, sorority, school, teenager, contest, beer, chase, night, student athlete, escape room, tournament ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 ⇓
87%
Up the Academy (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of ...
Style: humorous, spoof, sex comedy, anime, not serious
Audience: teens
Plot: school, high school, looking for sex, teenager, gay, partner, stoner, high school life, teenage life, teachers and students, boarding school life, college life ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Hair Under the Roses (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The discovery of sexuality through the eyes of a group of teenagers.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sexual
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, lifestyle, teenage life, fall in love, youth, love and romance, breakup, wooing, sexual relations, best friend, curiosity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.5
 1K
Pizza (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A pizza deliveryman develops a bond with a girl nearly half his age.
Style: realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, touching
Plot: youth, love and romance, misfit, introspection, thirtysomething life, friends, working class, small town life, high school life, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, birthday party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 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 ⇓
87%
 5.4
 5K
The Outcasts (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, teenage life, society, misfit, school, teenager, best friend, bullying, rivalry, social misfits, friends, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.1
 3K
Smile (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, biting, humorous, satirical ...
Plot: female nudity, choreographer, showbiz, family relations, disorder, social relations, couples, contests and competitions, youth, society, mischievous children, introspection ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Back by Midnight (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, independent film
Plot: buddies, prison, odd couple, criminal heroes, prison life, confined, misfit, nothing goes right, heist, fish out of water, cons and scams, robbery ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Living Wake (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: “The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot: nothing goes right, friends, odd couple, lifestyle, dark humor, partner, performer's life, misfit partners, hopes, daydreamer, social relations, last wish ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Most of the townsfolk, particularly those on the school PTA, think she is a little too liberal so they're making things tough for her and her daughter. So she runs for the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, biting, clever ...
Plot: revenge, hillbilly, feminist, child, milf, high school, small town, fighting the system, prank, school, breakup, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Skills Like This (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: heist, friendship, couples, friends, disorder, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, criminal, self discovery, bank, love and romance, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Meatballs Part II (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located ...
Style: humorous, teen sex comedy, not serious, realistic, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, teenager, rivalry, alien, friendly alien, buddies, male nudity, satire, monster, beach, boxing match, nerd ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
85%
Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
18-Year-Old Virgin (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a series of sexual mishaps, a high school senior tries to lose her virginity on the last night before graduation.
Style: teen sex comedy, erotic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: loss of virginity, couples, buddies, erotica, partner, teenage life, friends, youth, love and romance, virginity, high school life, looking for sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.0
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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 ⇓
85%
That's What She Said (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: best friend, city life, friends, singleness, twentysomething life, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, strong female presence, friendship, friendship between men, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Zero to Sixty (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, car, odd couple, gangster, partner, friendship, chases and races, criminal heroes, fall in love, chase, disorder, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
American High School (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Small lives begin at the end of high school for this surreal society. A senior who married young must contend with her life, love, and pursuit of individuality and femininity in a narcissistic, misogynistic world of irony. Gwen Adams, her husband ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: high school, teenager, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, high school life, youth, love triangle, sexy teenager, looking for sex, couple relations, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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