Movies like Playing for Keeps 1986

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Playing for Keeps (1986)
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Playing for Keeps (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious trio of inner-city high school grads tries to hit the big time by turning a run-down country hotel into a rock & roll resort with around-the-clock music and live entertainment. Standing in their way are fearful townsfolk, unscrupulous businessmen and the tax collector, all threatening to bring the curtain down on the teens' aspirations. But this is one threesome who refuses to give up on their lifelong goal without a fight — and a song.
Style: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, hotel, teenage love, youth, rock, friends, music band, love and romance, profanity, resort, teenage life, ambition, high school, small town, coming of age, rebelliousness, musician's life, underdog, small town life, toxic, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, desire for fame, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: new york
Keyword: new yorker

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about youth, friends, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, high school and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Playing for Keeps: One More Saturday Night (1986), The Breakdance Kid (2004), Who Shot Patakango? (1989), Satisfaction (1988), Harold (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Who Shot Patakango? (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during the late '50s which centers around the high school life of a group of teens that have to deal with racial tensions at their interracial vocational high school.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: school, false confession, friends, urban ghetto, social relations, kids in trouble, racism, urban ghetto life, interracial relations, college life, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage love ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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82%
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Satisfaction (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: rock and roll, friendship, women, rock, coming of age, music, teenager, teen angst, friends, teenage life, resort, teenage love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Harold (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, indie film
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, loser, high school, teenage life, teenage love, social misfits, misfit, society, lifestyle, high school life, adolescence vs adulthood, teachers and students ...
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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
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76%
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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 ...
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The Liverpool Goalie (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Jo is a smart thinker of a guy, and has a very vivid imagination, but is bothered by his fellow classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. Still he tries to cope with this difficult time in life. He's doing the ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, witty
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: soccer, friends, teenage love, friendship, love and romance, power relations, social relations, dark humor, high school, high school life, school, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Oh, What a Night (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
Style: semi serious, humorous, emotional, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, older woman younger man sex, best friend, love and romance, eccentric family, teenage love, society, family problems, misfit ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: canada
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The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, coming of age, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, youth, teachers and students, high school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, friendship, true love, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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62%
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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
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61%
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The Prankster (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: self discovery, high school life, youth, teenage life, unfulfillment, society, friendship, couples, high school, lifestyle, love and romance, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Hollywood High Part II (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's another year at Hollywood High and the students are upholding the standards of their school. It's the end of the semester and finals are near, but that doesn't stop the girls of Hollywood High from having fun. From the pool to ...
Style: independent film, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: beach, female nudity, sex, sexual harassment, couples, friends, power relations, teenage life, infidelity, hollywood, school, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, teen, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay teenager, high school, lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, bully, friendship, gay interest, lgbtq, misfit, coming of age, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 80s
Place: antwerp, europe
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The Girls on the Beach (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: beach, surfing, the beatles, sorority, beach party, rock and roll, ocean, loss of virginity, disorder, friends, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 60s
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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
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
All I Wanna Do (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike ...
Style: feel good, light, melancholic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, teenager, high school, youth, gender, teenage life, teenage love, battle of the sexes, bullying, friendship, rebelliousness ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1998, year 1963
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Box Elder (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. Yet, they're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Time: 21st century
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53%
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The New Guy (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Style: feel good, funny, teen, hilarious, parody ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Time: y2k, 2000s
Place: austin texas, texas
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52%
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Billy Madison (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly
Plot: graduation, elementary school, stupidity, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, family business, mentor, happy ending, father son relationship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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51%
Super Sweet 16: The Movie (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: high school, friendship, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, birthday party, ambition, lifestyle, couples, youth, wealth, love ...
Time: 21st century
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51%
General Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Dirty Deeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds, an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed by the Homecoming banquet at 9 a.m.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, romantic, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, teenager, bully, cheerleader, stereotypes, friends, rivalry, college, teenage sex, lifestyle, coming of age, prank ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, teenage love, youth, school, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, family relations, couples, family life, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Just One of the Girls (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, teenage life, cross dressing, high school, gender bending, youth, switching roles, cheerleading, friendship, college, teenage love, high school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 ⇓
45%
The F**k-It List (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
Style: semi serious, light, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, desire, wish come true, teenage girl, teenager, youth, party, happy ending, magic, distopia, high school ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Style: talky, realistic, independent film, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, college, college life, friendship between men, party, coming of age, youth, male objectification, male nudity, friendship, student athlete, high school ...
Time: year 1980, year 2016, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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
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