Movies like Humble Pie
If you like "Humble Pie" you are looking for touching, humorous and realistic movies about / with rise to the top, follow your dream, optimism, teenage love, youth, family relations and parents and children themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Humble Pie (2007)
698
Original name: American Fork
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's destined for something big.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, whimsical
Plot:
rise to the top, follow your dream, optimism, teenage love, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, society, social misfits, humble, physical appearance, artists and showbiz, hopes, on the road, working class, weakness, gang, animal life, coming of age, siblings relations, religions or cults
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Humble Pie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, coming of age, hopes and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Humble Pie: American Chai (2001), Mo (2007), Turning Green (2005), My Name Is Juani (2006), Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
semi serious, touching, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, youth, nothing goes right, misfit, society, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
219
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, family problems, disability, optimism, hopes, social misfits, society, parents and children, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, family relations, overnight success, getting home, society, youth, love and romance, juvenile delinquency, hopes, fall in love, small town ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Plot:
follow your dream, lifestyle, hopes, friendship, city life, on the road, couples, tough heroes, friends, society, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, parents and children, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, hopes, family problems, society, youth, teenage life, family relations, high school life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Also search:
School Dance similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wedding invite from an estranged sibiling inspires a grandmother to assemble her family and embark on a roadtrip in a broken down caravan.
Style:
road movie, semi serious, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, family life, siblings relations, on the road, parents and children, love and romance, golden years, gender, human nature, couples, family in crisis ...
Place:
argentina, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, friends, youth, teenage love, society, social misfits, physical appearance, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, social relations, high school life
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
follow your dream, obsessive quest, friendship, aging, lifestyle, youth, society, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, filmmaking, hollywood ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Movie in collections
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, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, society, buddies, youth, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship between boys, football ...
Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, witty, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
family life, siblings relations, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, best friends, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Also search:
Movies similar to Joyful Noise
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of the owners of Circus Esperança, Puro Sangue e Pangaré, father and son, who plays two clowns. At a certain point, Pangaré starts showing tiredness and sadness for being an unhappy clown.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
circus, introspection, self discovery, follow your dream, identity crisis, parents and children, escapades, family relations, on the road, countryside, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, eccentric family, society, hopes, friends ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
hoax, teenage life, life turned upside down, self discovery, overnight success, social relations, religions or cults, family relations, miraculous event, cons and scams, parents and children, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A commitment-phobic man reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood.
Style:
humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
homecoming, hopes, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, family life, eccentric family, couple relations, family relations, estrangement, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
268
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
love triangle, youth, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship, friendship between men, coming of age, friends, courtroom drama, siblings relations, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Also search:
Films like Acne
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, self discovery, follow your dream, underdog, hopes, youth, love and romance, athlete's life, sport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, teenage love, ambition, dancer's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, high school life ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
669
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty
Plot:
culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, love and romance, lifestyle, siblings relations, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, fall in love, bittersweet, workplace, love and romance, society, workplace situations, modern life, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Ohio teen moves to L.A. to find fame as a rock musician and to find a drummer.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
club, rock and roll, self discovery, friends, family relations, music band, artists and showbiz, coming of age, youth, law firm, on the road, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, ohio, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Also search:
Archie's Final Project similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At first glance, Mica seems a perfectly normal boy. But first glances can often be deceiving... For one, Mica's house is now a museum honouring Guillermo Garibai, the legendary Mexican crooner. Mica spends most of his time there, giving guided ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
first love, love and romance, fall in love, youth, traumatic childhood, family relations, parents and children, high school, coming of age, misfit, self acceptance, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
292
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
unlikely couple, family relations, starting over, love and romance, hopes, redemption, parents and children, society, bittersweet, christmas, misfit, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
638
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every year, Albert buys his daughter an initiatory journey to a European country. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for a Viking's treasure. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Anika and Christine, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, art house
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, love and romance, youth, parents and children, teenage love, couples, summer, disorder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person he wants to become. When his girlfriend kicks him out, he's forced to crash with his Aunt Sharon and is reluctantly enlisted to take her teen ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, mumblecore ...
Plot:
youth, lifestyle, buddies, friends, family relations, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, on the road, wilderness, coming of age, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, music band, rivalry, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions, musician's life, follow your dream, youth, chorus girl, unlikely partners, social relations, odd couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Also search:
Mama's Boy similar movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friends, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
399
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, non-linear ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, nightlife, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, ambition, hollywood, hopes, filmmaking, love and romance, fall in love, womanizer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 20th century, 90s, year 1992 ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
306
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
society, immigrants, deportation, siblings relations, escapades, redemption, getting home, family relations, youth, hopes, coming of age, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, family problems, on the run, youth, social misfits, society, misfit, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, dealing with death, college dropout ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, youth, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, child as adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
