Movies like Lambada

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Lambada (1990)
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Lambada (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.
Style: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: dance, music, mathematics, school, high school, college, mathematician, stalking, lolita, youth, teachers and students, hollywood, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, high school life, teenage life, rivalry, social differences, society, nightlife, ambition, contests and competitions, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, beverly hills
Keyword: latin, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Lambada

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and semi serious films with plots about youth, high school, teenage life, society, high school life, school and ambition mostly in Drama, Musical and Comedy genres. Some movies like Lambada: Student Confidential (1986), How She Move (2007), Cheaters (2000), Chalk (2006), Whatever (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Student Confidential (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by their guidance counselor, a shadowy, suicidal millionaire.
Style: entertaining, grindhouse, independent film, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, suicide attempt, high school, school, coming of age, self discovery, love and romance, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, youth, society, power relations ...
Time: 80s
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50%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Cheaters (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, age difference, art teacher, bittersweet, performer's life, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, future, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Fast Forward (1985)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, stylized, humorous
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: breakdance, dance, dancing, club, street kid, high school, couples, friends, family relations, rising to stardom, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ohio, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
Style: serious, captivating, feel good, realistic, independent film
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: dance, dancing, hip hop, dancer's life, college, rivalry, lifestyle, college life, contests and competitions, student life, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Cruel Intentions 2 (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This takes place several years before Cruel Intentions, back to when Kathryn first meets Sebastian, their sexual attraction to each other and their enjoyment in destroying the lives of their peers.
Style: sexy, cynical, semi serious, erotic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: sexual relations, incest, high school, betrayal, infidelity, teenager, nudity, identical twins, female nudity, bare breasts, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, england, europe, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Explosive Generation (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, psychotronic
Plot: teacher, high school, couples, power relations, urban ghetto, teachers and students, high school life, teenage life, school, looking for sex, urban ghetto life, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.2
 65
Lotto Land (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This film tells two interwoven stories of two single-parent families in a poor, racially-mixed neighborhood in Brooklyn. The first story is about a young black man (with aspirations of getting away from his friends who are involved in drugs) who ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: lottery, friends, urban ghetto, sport team, couples, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, drug dealing ...
Time: future
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.2
 29
Matchups (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.9
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Mamitas (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological, light ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, high school, youth, couples, teenage life, social relations, friendship, society, self discovery, homeless, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Sunday School Musical (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two competing groups of high school students must rally together and enter a song and dance competition in order to save their church from closing.
Style: humorous, mockbuster, exciting, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, church, music band, rivalry, follow your dream, lifestyle, friends, ambition, teachers and students, teenage love, save the day, choir ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.3
 519
Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.1
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gain trust, youth, life is a bitch, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.9
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Lost Angels (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Rich L.A. party brat Tim (Adam Horovitz) spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist (Donald Sutherland) who has ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, teenage life, dysfunctional family, nightlife ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.0
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Beat (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, poetry, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, idealism, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, stoner, school ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ 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 ⇓
56%
Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Girl, Positive (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.
Style: semi serious, disturbing, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: hiv, high school, sexually transmitted disease, terminal illness, family in crisis, teenage love, infected, danger, disability, youth, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Schoolboy Crush (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his newest student Sora is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sexy, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: gay, boys love, high school, transsexual, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, student life, lgbt, couples, power relations, school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Life of a King (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, rough, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, changing lives, ambition, teenage life, ex convict, contests and competitions, bad attitude, society, gain trust, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Perfect Sport (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lee Bishop is forced to grow up quickly when his mother leaves for Iraq and his younger sister joins him on the varsity wrestling squad.
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, independent film, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, youth, family relations, family life, wrestler, wrestling, obsession, betrayal, steroids, coming of age, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Bending All the Rules (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, ambition, wooing, radio dj, bartender, art exhibition, carnival, artists and showbiz, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.9
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Halls of Anger (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Style: black and white, independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cheerleader, blaxploitation, juvenile delinquent, racial issues, black, high school, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits, ambition, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Make It Happen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
Style: sexy, teen, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: dancing, dance, follow your dream, sexy woman, contests and competitions, self discovery, youth, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, friendship, dance school ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.8
 161
Pass the Light (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Pass the Light tells the story of Steve Bellafiore, an 17 year old high school senior who decides to run for Congress in order to protect the faith that he so loves.
Style: serious, feel good, uplifting, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: against the odds, ambition, rivalry, teenage life, idealism, campaign, parents and children, youth, society, high school, teenage girl, college ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Make Your Move (2013)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Style: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: dancer's life, dancing, love and romance, contests and competitions, ambition, youth, young lovers, interracial relations, music, uninhibited rivalry, artists and showbiz, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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