Movies like Anna's Dream

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Anna's Dream (2002)
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Anna's Dream (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. Because of time lost due to her injury and rehab, she is repeating her junior year, with her sister Beth. The film covers her adjustments to her new life, and her classmates' problems in dealing with her wheelchair. In a series of small vignettes, it also gives a picture of her family, good and bad, and her parents' efforts to support their kids while dealing with their own fears.
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, disability, family relations, dating, brother sister relationship, paraplegic, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, wheelchair

Most similar movies to Anna's Dream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about high school, youth, teenage life, teenager, coming of age, family relations and high school life mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Anna's Dream: Queen Sized (2008), Saved! (2004), Beeswax (2009), Dude (2018), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.7
 49K
Saved! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom ...
Style: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, coming of age, gay, youth, friendship, pregnant girl, satire, teenager, atheism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, xian, baltimore, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.1
 876
Beeswax (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A marvelous new film from Andrew Bujalski, one of the brightest stars in indie film, Beeswax revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren – played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie ...
Style: mumblecore, semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: disability, twins, family relations, rivalry, love affair, legal action, legal, friendship, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, disabled character, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, kenya, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.1
 8K
Dude (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four best friends negotiate loss and major life changes during the last two weeks of high school.
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, sincere, teen
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: high school, teenager, high school friends, female friendship, youth, friendship, party, teenage sex, coming of age, drinking alcohol, love, summer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style: road movie, depressing, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, disability, abandoned by father, coming of age, writers, friendship, tragedy, justice, loneliness, depression, redemption, mentor ...
Place: seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 7K
#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 ⇓
64%
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
Style: teen, emotional, witty, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, adolescence, teenager, coming of age, teen angst, teenage girl, teen romance, female protagonist, best friend, friendship, teacher, nymph ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: california, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Tru Confessions (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything..
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, heartfelt ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, parents and children, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, estrangement, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, teenage boy, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 6.2
 52K
Orange County (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, high school, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family relations, drug, youth, horniness, sex with a minor, cheerleader, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: california, southern california, usa, yale university, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.7
 7K
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 ⇓
58%
 7.4
 109
Perfect Sport (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lee Bishop is forced to grow up quickly when his mother leaves for Iraq and his younger sister joins him on the varsity wrestling squad.
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, independent film, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, youth, family relations, family life, wrestler, wrestling, obsession, betrayal, steroids, coming of age, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.5
 307
Porfirio (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An adult male, 155 centimeters tall, of dark complexion; presents frontal baldness, regular eyebrows, brown eyes, wide nose, big mouth with thick lips, slight upper lip hair and big ears with free hanging lobes. He shows paralysis in the lower ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, sentimental, clever, aesthetic ...
Plot: disability, unlikely criminals, family relations, parents and children, elderly, aging, father, airplane, hijacking, misfit, bare breasts, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Secret Life of Girls (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 15-year-old Natalie, confused to begin with, finds out about her father's affair with one of his students. Refusing to simply stand by and watch her family disintegrate, Natalie takes it upon herself to expose the problem, and in doing so calls ...
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenage girl, secret life, coming of age, high school, high school life, bittersweet, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, love affair, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.4
 815
Girls Town (1996)
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 ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, women, high school, suicide, coming of age, teenage love, righting the wronged, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, human nature, death of friend, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.9
 253
Take Down (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: wrestling, hacking, high school, high school wrestling, small town, wrestler, group, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teacher, athlete, high school athlete ...
Time: year 1979
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49%
 5.4
 8K
Teen Spirit (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story is about Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies and is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.
Style: entertaining, touching, teen, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenage girl, popularity, teenage life, prom, social relations, college, ghost, high school life, teenager, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.1
 11K
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 ⇓
48%
 5.9
 867
After Class (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dysfunctional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days of life.
Style: independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: wanting to die, family relations, pregnancy, teacher student relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, father son relationship, birthday party, brother brother relationship, cell phone, nanny, boy, radiation ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Geography Club (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
Style: witty, semi serious, touching, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, gay teenager, gay, closeted homosexual, sexual orientation, lesbian, gay relationship, friendship, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, gay interest, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
42%
 4.9
 4K
Cougars Inc. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
Style: semi serious, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, escort, infidelity, milf, older woman teenage boy relationship, friendship, boarding school, parents and children, teenage love, youth, dysfunctional marriage, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, high school, coming of age, college, teen angst, graduation, partner, performer's life, friends, sport team, couples, power relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
F*&% the Prom (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Maddy and Cole were inseparable friends until high school started and Maddy became the most popular girl on campus. When she starts feeling lonely and heartbroken, she reconnects with Cole and the duo conspire to destroy the ultimate teen popularity ...
Style: romantic, captivating, funny, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: prom, teenage girl, high school, popular girl, couples, contests and competitions, party, social relations, friendship, college life, cheerleader, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Speech & Debate (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, high school student, teenage girl, teenager, competition, father son relationship, teenage boy, teen angst, high school, gay bar, debate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
 2K
Growing Op (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, light, mystic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lifestyle, family relations, teenage life, eccentric family, parents and children, stoner, cheerleader, social relations, teenage love, marijuana, brother sister relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
 5.5
 4K
Full of It (2007)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, South Africa, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young kid (Pinkston) is forced to live out the lies he told to become popular.
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, romantic, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: wish come true, lie, teenage life, high school life, misfit, fish out of water, fantasy becomes reality, basketball, love and romance, high school, teenager, love ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
 692
The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
 334
Lover Girl (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci takes pity on Jake, allowing her to stay over. When Jake discovers that Marci is a manager in a ...
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: massage parlor, prostitution, youth, lolita, teenage girl, teenage prostitution
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 10K
Terri (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style: melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, coming of age, bullying, small town, loneliness, existentialism, teenage life, character study, eccentricity, overweight child, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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