Movies like The Secret Life of Girls

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The Secret Life of Girls (1999)
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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 into question the family's penchant for denial.
Style: independent film, psychological, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenage girl, secret life, high school life, high school, coming of age, youth, family relations, love and romance, love affair, teenage life, lifestyle, family in crisis, bittersweet, dark humor, teacher, student, first love, boy, schoolgirl, father daughter relationship, best friend, girl, nerd, high school student, female student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s

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Most similar movies to The Secret Life of Girls

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, high school, love and romance and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Secret Life of Girls: Alex in Wonder (2001), Picture This (2008), Angus (1995), White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013), Cheeky Girls (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alex in Wonder (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Style: sincere, light, entertaining, humorous, twisted ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, sex, love and romance, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, parents and children, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen angst, father daughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
88%
 6.7
 7K
Angus (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, teenager, high school, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, psychological, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, love and romance, teenage life, youth, self discovery, high school, leukemia, love story, coming of age, high school life, mentally unstable, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, high school life, school, young love, friends, youth, high school, teenage life, teachers and students, teenage crush, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.0
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You're My Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, society, idealism, snitch, high school, teachers and students, parents and children, clergy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, hopes, on the road, obsessive quest, self discovery, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Funeral Kings (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Kryptonite! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, family relations, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, bittersweet, superhero, little boy, young boy, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.0
 458
Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, couple relations, coming of age, married man, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, couples, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.5
 14K
Rocket Science (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hal, a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route he joins the school debating team, which sends ...
Style: clever, sincere, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, coming of age, debate, teenager, teenage love, dysfunctional family, friendship, teenage life, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, misfit, teacher ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.4
 2K
Norman (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Style: emotional, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, terminal illness, misfit, coping, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life, social relations, teenage love, life is a bitch, introvert, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
45%
 5.4
 481
Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, hopes, love and romance, society, youth, getting home, fall in love, family relations, overnight success, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth, buddies, society, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.4
 1K
Rockford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that would look ...
Style: social, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, child, soul searching, boy, boarding school, best friend, family relations, friends, power relations, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 6.7
 9K
Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
The Ketchup Effect (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, high school, social relations, friendship, teenage life, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.5
 668
Rich Kids (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings
Style: grindhouse, stylized, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Plot: young love, coming of age, youth, friends, divorce, child, love, children, first love, middle class, family life, friendship ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Foreign Letters (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: coming of age, introspection, friendship, culture clash, teenage life, fish out of water, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: usa, vietnam, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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