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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
Style:
entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, inspirational, hot, teen comedy
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot:
middle school, child protagonist, humour, children, school, teenager, dream, best friend, escapades, child, talent, against the rules, painter, schoolboy, fighting the system, high school life, school principal, bear, brother sister relationship, misunderstanding, youth, childhood, girl, high school, boyhood ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, light and entertaining films with plots about teenager, youth, friends, family, friendship, school and slug mostly in Comedy, Family and Animation genres. Some movies like Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Jessica Darling's It List (2016), Campus Confidential (2005), Santa Hunters (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
family life, child, boy, middle school, sibling rivalry, diary, family relations, teenage life, high school life, social misfits, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
Style:
humorous, touching, entertaining, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
childhood, best friend, kids and family, mischievous children, child, friendship between boys, schoolboy, parents and children, lifestyle, dog, coming of age, amusement park ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies ...
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
middle school, childhood, child protagonist, teenager, peer pressure, coming of age, high school life, fat boy, boy, high school, bullying, child ...
Time:
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Place:
guatemala, usa, new york, north america, manhattan new york city ...
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85%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Jessica Darling – a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into 7th grade – was never too concerned about where she'd fit in the middle school hierarchy. But before her first day of school, her older sister — the super popular Bethany, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
girl, middle school, popular girl, teenage girl, cheerleading, sister sister relationship, teenager, female protagonist, friendship, social relations, friends, school ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
School... there is the popular crowd. Teachers favor some students over others. Because of this, Violet decides to start a school paper, which exposes many embarrassing secrets of popular kids who think they run the campus.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, high school life, social relations, coming of age, teenage love, teenage life, social misfits, misfit, lifestyle, misfit partners, friendship, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, friendship, escapades, youth, christmas eve, children, holiday, imagination, heartwarming, teamwork, unhappiness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, friends, middle school, school, best friend, youth, teachers and students, social relations, high school life, preteen, grownups ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of rule-abiding prep school students – Zack, Lawrence, Freddy, Summer and Tomika – learn to take risks and reach new heights thanks to substitute teacher Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck musician who uses the language of rock ‘n’ roll ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, children, school, friendship, music, childhood, friends, best friend, multiple storylines, rock band, teacher, parents and children ...
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention.
Style:
road movie, entertaining, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
travel, road trip, boy, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, family life, diary, mother son relationship, trip, on the road, parenthood, journey ...
Time:
year 2017, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style:
entertaining, sweet, humorous, teen, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, bad luck, child's point of view, job interview, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, birthday party, family relations, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, north america
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling series "Dear Dumb Diary" by Jim Benton. Follow Jamie Kelly as she navigates Mackeral Middle School with the help of her best friend Isabella, her nemesis Angeline and the boy of her dreams Hudson.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
middle school, youth, diary, popular girl, child, high school, female protagonist, love and romance, school, teenage life, teenage girl, family ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, not serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
childhood, children, bully, child, gang, dog, child romance, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, friendship, rich kid ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Andi is contemplative and artistic and sheltered by overprotective parents. But on the eve of her 13th birthday, Andi's free-spirited older sister Bex returns home with a revelation that changes everything and sends Andi on an uncharted course ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, thought provoking, touching, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As their first year of high school looms ahead, best friends Julie, Hannah, Yancy and Farrah have one last summer sleepover. Little do they know they're about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Desperate to shed their nerdy status, they ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, teen, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, teenager, teenage girl, friendship between girls, teenage life, slumber party, friends, high school life, teenage love, popular girl, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
african american, raccoon, couple relations, hip hop, buying a house, contractor, kids and family, family relations, suburbs, family life, renovation, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style:
funny, feel good, slapstick, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
mischievous children, adoption, dark humor, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, disorder, children, child hero, foster child, boy, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, captivating, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
interracial romance, high school life, high school, rivalry, teachers and students, enemies to lovers, debate, dream, disorder, cons and scams, greed, happy ending ...
Place:
harvard university, georgia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, year 2016, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, north america, usa, france ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max Keeble, the victim of his 7th grade class, plots revenge when he learns he's moving; it backfires when he doesn't move after all.
Style:
humorous, touching, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, school, underdog, friendship, revenge, mischievous children, middle school, kids and family, vengeance, teenager, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
children, mischievous children, unemployment, nothing goes right, farce, fish out of water, kindergarten, goofy hero, friends, workplace situations, disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
SmodCo Animations gathered in one big collection. (With excerpts from SModcast.com’s own Hollywood Babble-On and Jay & Silent Bob Get Old!)
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
Style:
funny, touching, 3d animation, stylized, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
sibling rivalry, baby, boy, job promotion, child, little boy, child as adult, love, brothers, ceo, family relations, parenthood ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, nevada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
friendship, egg, escapades, anthropomorphism, teamwork, direction and purpose, coping, friends, ambition, humour, chicken, children ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A new school year, his brother Rodrick teases him over and over and over and over again. Will Greg manage to get along with him? Or will a secret ruin everything?
Style:
3d animation, captivating, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
schoolboy, friendship, teenager, brother brother relationship, child, diary, school, lifestyle, high school life, teenage life, teenage protagonist, friends ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Thomas the Tank Engine rediscovers the lost railway town of Great Waterton. A new engine named Stanley is brought to help restore the town, but Thomas becomes jealous when Stanley wins over his friends.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
thomas the tank engine, friendship, young heroes, best friend, youth, disorder, escapades, friends, train, lost city, anthropomorphic train, railway ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, South Korea, Chile, USA, France
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Andy Larkin isn't like other children. He's not into sports, science or even video games. Andy spends his time mastering the art of being a prankster. In fact, he strives to be the greatest practical joker the world has ever seen. However, ...
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
teenager, unhappiness, teenage life, teenage boy, absurd humor, joke, friendship, lifestyle, escapades, friends, silly humor, humour ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A head cheerleader's life takes an unexpected twist when her rifle-like throwing arm takes her from the sidelines to becoming her middle school’s starting quarterback. Bella Dawson is a confident, caring and talented teenager, who suddenly ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
american football, cheerleading, teenager, sport team, teenage girl, cheerleader, school, youth, friends, best friend, middle school, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Will Tommy still be the gang's fearless leader? Will Chuckie survive his first "crush"? Will Angelica still be underhanded? The answers are here as the entire Rugrats gang embarks on one of their most fantastic adventures yet.
Style:
captivating, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
children, friendship, teenager, child, mischievous children, imagination, teenage protagonist, child protagonist, friends, teenage life, teenage love, lifestyle ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After breaking out of a rehabilitation zoo, Frankie, a squirrel with all the angles, returns to his forest. He learns from his dim-witted best friend, Cody, a porcupine and street-con, that while he was in lock-up, the entire forest was picked clean ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
squirrel, friendship, chase, heist gone wrong, wild animal, escapades, friends, robbery, youth, society, heroes, anthropomorphic animal ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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