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Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)
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Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)
Original name: Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Mary is a senior in high school. With graduation a few months away, she is faced with sudden changes in life, love, and friendship. Meanwhile, strange events begin to happen to her that seem completely random and without reason. She struggles to make sense of her life as it threatens to spin out of control. The narrative of an uncontrollable life derives from the artistic concept of the project, which is to adapt a Twitter stream into a fictional film. The director uses 410 real Tweets from an anonymous girl as a springboard to create a fantasy world of a contemporary Asian teenager.
Style: experimental, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, postmodern, allegory, offbeat, learning
Plot: high school, best friend, teenage life, education, youth, high school life, friends, social relations, first love, fall in love, self discovery, grownups, introspection, lesbian, asian, lgbtq, photography, teenager, forest, friendship, happiness, dating, twitter, murder, social media ...
Time: future, 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, thailand, france
Keyword: thai

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and touching films with plots about youth, friends, teenage life, high school, high school life, coming of age and teenager mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy: White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013), Cheeky Girls (2008), Gippi (2013), Radio Rebel (2012), Out of It (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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
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Gippi (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gippi is a coming-of-age story of an ordinary, overweight girl, who, through the course of the film, learns to love herself for exactly who she is. It is also a tale of an underdog, who picks herself up from nothing and finds herself at the top of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: coming of age, teenager, popularity, underdog, rivalry, teenage life, ambition, misfit, social misfits, youth, friends, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Radio Rebel (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM ...
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Plot: high school, teenager, high school life, teenage girl, teenage love, prom, youth, popularity, secret identity, teenage life, first love, shyness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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Out of It (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An introverted nerd and a dumb, violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rivalry, coming of age, school, beach, cheerleader, high school football, performer's life, partner, sport team, friends, power relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york
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Sunny (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, captivating, sad, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: strong female presence, bullying, high school, best friend, youth, social relations, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, hospital, female bonding, asian prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
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Just Peck (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel like an idiot, his classmates make him feel like a geek and his home life is just as bad, with ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: high school, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage love, disorder, family relations, ambition, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Struck by Lightning (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, blackmail, dead boy, teenage life, gay, social misfits, ambition, misfit, best friend, social relations, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Grad Night (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends celebrates their graduation from Crispus Attucks High School with a jammin' party. It's hormones on overdrive, recreational drugs and lap dancing galore as the Class of 2005 goes out in style.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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The Trotsky (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public ...
Style: realistic, witty, not serious, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Frenemies (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What happens when three sets of BFF's become enemies?
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, teenage life, high school, teenager, youth, friendship, friends, ambition, computers and web, best friend, boy dog relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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86%
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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
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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Duration: 102 min.
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Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
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Duration: 96 min.
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Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Audience: teens
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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
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
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Time: 21st century
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84%
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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
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84%
Little Darlings (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: cult classic, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, deep ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
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Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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