Movies like Sunny 2011
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Sunny (2011)
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Original name: 써니
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Na-mi, a transfer student, becomes a laughingstock on her first day of school because of her strong southern dialect. Six girls jump in to help the new kid adapt to the new environment, and the girls come to call their circle of friends "Sunny."
Style:
touching, humorous, captivating, sad, psychological, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, semi serious, experimental
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
strong female presence, bullying, high school, best friend, youth, teenage life, social relations, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, hospital, female bonding, teenager, female friendship, girl, asian, child, adolescence, coming of age, japanese teenager, siblings, young adult, fight scenes, asian prostitute, relationships, gang ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
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Most similar movies to Sunny
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, friendship, friends, teenage life, best friend and high school mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Sunny: Scandal Makers (2008), With Friends Like These (2007), You're My Hero (2003), Now and Then (1995), Take Care of My Cat (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
parents and children, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, family relations, radio dj, media, asian, father daughter relationship, life turned upside down, forbidden love, friendship, society ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
best friend, youth, friendship, friends, homecoming, young adult, nudity, social relations, snobbism, twentysomething life, bittersweet, male full rear nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, women, childhood, adolescence vs adulthood, female friendship, youth, teenage life, adolescence, friends, children ...
Time:
90s, year 1970, year 1991, 70s, year 1995 ...
Place:
usa, indiana
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, seoul, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
friendship, best friend, family life, parents and children, friends, couples, couple relations, children, psychologist, doll, death of friend, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Style:
melancholic, compassionate, mumblecore, clever, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, friendship, bullying, small town, loneliness, existentialism, teenage life, character study, eccentricity, misfit, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
38%
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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, touching, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, introspection, fish out of water, culture clash, teenage life, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place:
usa, vietnam, israel
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
Style:
touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, loss of virginity, last wish, looking for sex, teenage life, first sex, hospital, youth, unfulfillment, bittersweet, heart condition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, liverpool
Similarity:
38%
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, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, youth, teenage life, misfit, school, best friend, bullying, social misfits, social relations, friends, prank, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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, couple relations, teenage girl, teenage life, married man, coming of age, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, seattle
Similarity:
38%
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:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, adoption, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, family problems, obsessive quest, on the road, family in crisis, hopes, self discovery, escape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
38%
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, humorous, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, youth, high school, leukemia, teenager in love, love story, mentally unstable, friends, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
38%
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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, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, popularity, underdog, rivalry, teenage life, social misfits, ambition, youth, misfit, social relations, friends, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, friends, society, youth, teenage love, physical appearance, social misfits, self discovery, social relations, love and romance, teenage life, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, family relations, social relations, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
37%
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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, humorous, sentimental, teen, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, teenager, friendship, bullying, coming of age, high school, prank, teenage love, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
y2k, 90s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
loss of virginity, teenage sexuality, female nudity, third world, love, coming of age, bittersweet, best friend, nudity, family relations, friends, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tunisia, africa, middle east, north africa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Because of an incident when they were in high school, members of the Bebas Gang were forced to separate. 23 years later, one of them is seriously ill and hopes to meet again one last time.
Style:
emotional, sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
choir, friendship, flashback, high school, female friendship, coming of age, old friends reunited, group of friends, reunited friends, last wish, satire, illness ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
37%
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, altar boy, friendship between boys, youth, group of friends, teenage boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, male friendship, boy, sexual content ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A quirky teen with a penchant for war reenactments, Kelly Ernswiler obsesses over military tactics with his buddy Bart. The school bully is one of Kelly's regular headaches, and he also has to deal with a frustrating situation at home, where ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, human nature, addiction, friends, fall in love, lifestyle, teenage life, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, future
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The gloomy, hate-filled lives of a group of teenage guys in the south of Sweden suddenly turn around when one of the guys' hippie-like cousin shows up.
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenage life, youth, escapades, society, rivalry, teen angst, hate, alienation, toxic masculinity, identity crisis ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, South Korea, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style:
touching, road movie, teen, sweet, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, closeted homosexual, high school, friendship, happy ending, road trip, friends, female protagonist, sexpot, on the road, honest ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, oklahoma, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenager forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood - and between two very different male admirers.
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rebellion, rebelliousness, self discovery, love and romance, love triangle, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, coming of age, school, teenage love, age difference, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, parents and children, teenage life, family life, coming of age, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, friendship, sister sister relationship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
187
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chubby is the nickname of Kevin, a 12 years old kid already weights 100 kilos (220.46 lb). If he keeps devours fries, pastries and ice cream everyday, he's gonna have heart attack sooner or later unless he decides to change his diet to turn ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, bittersweet, youth, physical appearance, friends, teaching the ways of the world, power relations, misfit, obesity, weight loss, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
37%
403
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tom, 16, is a sensitive teenager who is about to enter a new high school after being expelled. He intends to find his place, make friends and seduce the girl he loves. Tom needs the support of his older brother, Leo, a true mentor, who is working to ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, high school life, teenager, mentor, adolescence, coming of age, lifestyle, brothers, teenage boy, satire, schoolboy, teenage life ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, semi serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
high school, disappearance, friendship, society, social relations, youth, high school student, rivalry, japanese schoolgirl, japanese teenager, great ending, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
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