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The Impossible Years (1968)
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The Impossible Years (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trouble in suburbia: psychiatrist's teenage daughter gets arrested for demonstrating on a college campus--holding a sign with a "dirty word" written on.
Style: clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, family comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, psychiatrist, freedom, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, revolutionary war, family relations, family life, college life, youth, college, parents and children, love and romance, couples, teenage life, society, down on your luck, nothing goes right, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, sex, teenager, fight ...
Time: 60s
Place: california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, teenager, love, coming of age, youth, friendship and family relations mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Impossible Years: Lord Love a Duck (1966), Whatever It Takes (2000), Easy A (2010), Outside Providence (1999), Drive Me Crazy (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave (Roddy McDowell) relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene played by Tuesday Weld.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, period piece, satirical, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: high school, unrequited love, satire, sorority, beach, happy ending, swing, goose, exploitation, misfit, high school life, bare chested male ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Whatever It Takes (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A nerdy teen, Ryan Woodman is smitten with the popular and gorgeous Ashley Grant, who apparently has no interest in him. Meanwhile, dim star athlete Chris Campbell has his eye on Ryan's brainy and beautiful friend, Maggie Carter. The two agree ...
Style: romantic, teen, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, high school life, high school, teenager, couples, friendship, teenage life, best friends in love, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, disorder ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 7.0
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Easy A (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, notoriety, love and romance, classmate, popularity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, xian, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Drive Me Crazy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicole and Chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. However, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey. But in the mist of planning a gala centennial ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sexy, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: high school, opposites attract, teenager, friendship, romantic rivalry, enemies to lovers, prom, best friends in love, friends to lovers, couples, youth, love ...
Time: y2k, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.1
 27K
First Daughter (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, resents their presence and decides she wants to attend school just like a normal student. Her father ...
Style: teen, romantic, sweet, cute, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: college life, usa president, teenager, white house, fall in love, college, cheerleader, president, father daughter relationship, first lady, couples, daughter ...
Time: 2000s
Place: washington d.c., california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 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 ⇓
74%
Youth in Revolt (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style: surreal, teen, melancholic, semi serious, cynical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: teenager, coming of age, loss of virginity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, shyness, teenage life, wooing ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, future, 21st century
Place: california, bay area, usa, oakland california, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Charlie Bartlett (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most ...
Style: teen, independent film, entertaining, cynical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, adolescence, high school, bully, psychiatrist, therapy, misfit, girlfriend, bullying ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with her parents world and the world they have created for ...
Style: independent film, humorous, witty, sexual, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, hotel, satire, couples, guilt, librarian, trippy, family relations, engagement, class differences, jewish wedding, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, columbus ohio, tahiti, usa, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, rom com, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, opposites attract, youth, fall in love, couples, teenage life, teen romance, love and romance, initially antagonists, school, enemies to lovers ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, teen, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, couples, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, youth, pretend relationship, friendship, popularity, cheerleading ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.7
 25K
Starter for 10 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a ...
Style: feel good, witty, sweet, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: university, coming of age, college, politics, social differences, unlikely friendships, happy ending, love triangle, student, buddies, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2000s, year 1985
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.4
 58K
LOL (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, youth, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, high school romance, coming of age, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.8
 73K
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 ⇓
53%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Late Bloomer (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: puberty, coming of age, love, sex therapist, youth, orgasm, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.1
 23K
Smart People (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, writers, father daughter relationship, self discovery, eccentricity, happy ending, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples, family life, couple relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
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Home Again (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Style: rom com, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, slutty attitude, love, male objectification, neurotic woman, rivalry, ex husband ex wife relationship, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, starting over, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2017
Place: los angeles, pacific ocean, new york, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
 16K
Down to You (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a ...
Style: feel good, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: college, college life, fall in love, teenager, friendship, love, lifestyle, couple relations, youth, love affair, women, relationships ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, san francisco, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.6
 10K
How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
California Dreaming (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: surfing, beach, coming of age, surf, lifestyle, fish out of water, infidelity, nudity, summer, youth, misfit, human nature ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: california, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: divorce, womanizer, love and romance, infidelity, happy ending, dating, marriage, love, couples, adultery, flirting, midlife crisis ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Under the Riccione Sun (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, rom com ...
Plot: virgin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, summer, blind character, summer vacation, blindness, beach volleyball, teenager, best friend, failed expectations, tourist, aspiring singer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.7
 97K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, young love, adolescence, teen romance, childhood sweetheart, school, teenage love, neighbor, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: single father, parenthood, love triangle, fall in love, love story, relationships, love and romance, love, widower, father daughter relationship, wedding, single parent ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: rhode island, new jersey, new york, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Say Anything... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style: feel good, sweet, light, romantic, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, couples, first love, youth, young love, opposites attract, love story, graduation, love and romance, boyfriend ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: seattle, england, washington state, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dear White People (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Four black students attend an Ivy League college where a riot breaks out over an “African American” themed party thrown by white students. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the film explores racial identity in 'post-racial' America ...
Style: witty, stylized, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, interracial relations, college, college life, prejudice, obsession, black, unlikely friendships, dysfunctional family, friendship, african american, student life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2016, year 2013, year 1972 ...
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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