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Graduate First (1978)
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Original name: Passe ton bac d'abord
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of friends, coming to the end of their school years, fill their days with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, cinema verite
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenager, horse, teacher student relationship, wedding party, soccer match, labor, union, strike, marxism, graduation, family relations, high school, employment, final exam, youth, friends, teachers and students, love and romance, couples, high school life, teenage life, society, sexual content, on the run, human nature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, flanders
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, youth, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, high school and teenage girl mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Graduate First: Alex in Wonder (2001), Blue Citrus Hearts (2003), The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003), Nearing Grace (2005), The Party (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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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 ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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high school, coming of age, teenager, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, human nature, addiction, friends, fall in love, lifestyle, teenage life, friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual, sexy
Audience:
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Plot:
high school, best friend, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, high school life, sexual relations, love and romance, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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Place:
new jersey, oregon, usa, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
year 1963, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lola, a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood, who longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, realistic, captivating, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, youth, high school, teenage life, teenage girl, high school life, coming of age, parents and children, teenager, young love, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, touching, teen, romantic comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage love, school, teenage life, coming of age, couples, youth, love and romance, parents and children, friends, puberty, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 80s
Place:
england, brighton, europe, new zealand, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976.
Style:
independent film, humorous, touching, sex comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, high school life, young love, school, friends, youth, teenage life, high school, teenage crush, teachers and students, family relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, teen romance, teenage life, youth, high school life, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, happy ending, coming of age, friends, high school romance ...
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, melancholic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, friendship, youth, teenager, fall in love, friends, unrequited love, dating, high school football, child, teen angst ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, ohio, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
slang, semi serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, suburbs, teacher, rehearsal, school, high school, theater, fall in love, looking for love, group of friends, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage life, unrequited love, teenage love, youth, love and romance, parents and children, class differences, hidden identity, fall in love, social differences, wooing, society ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france, jamaica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, light, sincere, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, pretend relationship, love and romance, first love, love letter, couples, high school student, teen romance, youth, teenage girl, happy ending, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, teenager, puberty, high school life, family relations, love, high school romance, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, coming of age, relationships, wedding ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, austria
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her quest is complicated by sexual politics, closed minds, and closeted friends as she seeks to ...
Style:
sincere, touching, feel good, romantic, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
gay athlete, suburbs, gay, social relations, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage life, looking for love, parents and children, gender, lesbian, gay teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, romantic, entertaining, teen sex comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage life, notoriety, classmate, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
california, xian, usa, florida, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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:
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Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenage girl, secret life, coming of age, high school life, high school, bittersweet, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family relations, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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