Movies like This Is the Year

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This Is the Year (2020)
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This Is the Year (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nebbish high school senior and his best friends embarks on a road trip to attend the greatest music festival of the year in a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams.
Style: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
Plot: road trip, coming of age, teenage love, relationship problems, teenage protagonist, teenager, friendship, friends, rock music, love affair, teenage life, adolescence, satire, love interest, rock concert, school, teen romance
Time: 2020s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and psychological films with plots about satire, teenager, teenage life, love affair, relationships, teenage protagonist and adolescence mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like This Is the Year: Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), About a Girl (2014), Pitching Tents (2017), Wallflowers (2013), Mainstream (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
Style: disturbing, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, bipolar disorder, party, autism, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, relationships, teenage girl, social problems, male female relationship, satire, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new jersey
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About a Girl (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship ...
Style: captivating, psychological, satirical, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot: suicidal thoughts, teen suicide, teenage love, teen romance, grownups, fall in love, suicide attempt, in love, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle change, social problems ...
Place: germany
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Pitching Tents (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a working-class town in 1984, a high school senior's future creates a tug-of-war between his no-nonsense father and his crackpot guidance counselor until an encounter with a goddess helps him uncover his true destiny.
Style: psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, satire, changing lives, relationships, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, lifestyle change, teenager, teenage life ...
Time: 80s
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38%
 7.0
 20
Wallflowers (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Set in the witty, cruelly comedic dating world of contemporary NYC, Wallflowers details the ensemble exploits of a tight knit group of jaded but hopeful Gen-X stragglers coping with the ecstasy and the agony of dating life - as members of a ...
Style: semi serious, funny, satirical, captivating
Plot: teenager, adolescence, love and romance, love affair, teenage love, teenage protagonist, friends, teenage life, satire, love interest, friendship, group
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mainstream (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Style: disturbing, semi serious, satirical, captivating, freeze frame ...
Plot: satire, love triangle, romantic relationship, love affair, internet, romantic friendship, love interest, romantic triangle, social satire, eccentric man, suicide, unrequited love ...
Place: los angeles
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The Outfield (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows a trio of varsity baseball players as they enter their senior year of high school and navigate difficult choices on and off the field.
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: school, baseball, friends, baseball team, teenager, friendship, grownups, baseball player, social problems, satire, group of friends, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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Four in the Morning (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: An unconventional comedy spiked with a touch of magical realism that follows four friends in their twenties as they navigate life at the unpredictable, emotional, but illuminative hour of 4 a.m. Dealing with themes of life and death, love and ...
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological
Plot: adolescence, relationship problems, love interest, satire, lifestyle, fall in love, teenage life, friendship, love affair, friends, teenager, twenty something
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33%
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As I Am (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, one week of school remains for Kai, an aspiring writer, and his friends. How they choose to spend this time will cost one of them their life and leave them all changed forever.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, sincere, semi serious
Plot: grownups, teen romance, teenage love, love interest, love story, adolescence, love and romance, socially awkward, adolescence vs adulthood, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life ...
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The Time of Secrets (2022)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and ...
Style: entertaining, psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: adolescence, lifestyle, grownups, child, satire, teenage protagonist, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, relationships, teenager, teenage life ...
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31%
All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Mariana (15) is annoyingly in love with the school's badboy, Ali2, but he is occupied with the only blonde in Romsås.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: young love, youth, cultural difference, love and romance, friends, teenage love, teenage life, lifestyle, love affair, relationships, romantic relationship, teenager ...
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Wyrm (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In an alternative 1990s a lonely, dinosaur-obsessed boy named Wyrm struggles to complete a unique school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss.
Style: captivating, entertaining, psychological, satirical, semi serious
Plot: teenager, first kiss, teenage love, teenage life, relationship problems, social problems, teenage protagonist, couples, love affair, relationships, adolescence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.8
 502
Sid Is Dead (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of a socially invisible high school senior who, after slipping up and getting the school's biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he's ever missed out on.
Style: satirical, semi serious, thrilling, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: school bully, teenage protagonist, adolescence, couple relations, grownups, relationships, schoolboy, love interest, satire, teenage boy, teenager, love affair ...
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Fourplay (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
Style: semi serious, satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: marriage, friends, couples, couple relations, satire, love and romance, lifestyle, friendship, male female relationship, family life, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
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The Eagle and the Albatross (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When an orphaned half Korean girl finds herself in small town America with her only living relative, she seeks out a mentor to help with the only things she loves - golf. The best player in town, the widowed optometrist, takes her under his wing, ...
Style: disturbing, satirical, semi serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: korean american, golf club, golfer, teenager, ambition, lifestyle change, athlete's life, satire, teenage protagonist, teenage life, athlete and trainer, golf ...
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29%
Legion of Doom (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
Style: satirical, semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: satire, friends, film industry, school, friendship, breakup, acid trip, coming of age, college, post college, drug trip, film school
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I"s (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Story: Seto Ichitaka, a second year high school student, has liked his classmate Yoshizuki Iori since the first year. Then the two of them become committee members of the welcome party for freshmen. When Ichitaka gradually opens up to Iori, his childhood ...
Style: captivating, satirical, disturbing, entertaining, semi serious
Plot: school, teenage protagonist, teenage love, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, moral dilemma, love interest, adolescence, japanese schoolgirl, high school life, love affair ...
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Princess Princess D (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: An all-boys school with a tradition of Princesses, boys chosen to dress up as girls to create tension between the students. Yutaka Mikoto, Shihoudani Yuujirou and Kouno Tooru are this year's chosen Princess team. Unsatisfied with the efforts ...
Style: thrilling, semi serious, satirical, captivating, psychological
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Sex Appeal (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Avery, a teenager with a tendency towards perfectionism, enlists her friend Larson to help her prepare for her first time with her long-distance boyfriend.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, psychological, sex comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Style: captivating, psychological, satirical, teen comedy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
Style: semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical
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Hard Sell (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Hardy Buchanan, a senior at an elite private school, needs to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of Bo, a beautiful runaway. Together, they devise an unconventional plan to profit off the wayward teens at Hardy's school. When the ...
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Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Chris, the coolest guy in school discovers that Roxy sees through his popularity and good looks, he enlists Cy to reverse catfish her-letting him take over his social media accounts to add substance to his style.
Style: satirical, semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
Style: semi serious, disturbing, sex comedy, captivating, satirical
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Get Big (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Inspired by somewhat true events, "Get Big" follows the misadventures of two friends as they reconnect to attend a high school classmate's wedding. Alec is the charming troublemaker, while Nate provides the neurotic and awkward foil ...
Style: entertaining, thrilling, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, comedy drama ...
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Time: 2020s
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Blurred (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Every year more than 70,000 Australian school leavers head to the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast to celebrate their release from the secondary school system. With a wild mixture of sun, surf and sex, this quintessential Australian tradition ...
Style: road movie, satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing
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Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Clare and Aidan, who after making a pact that they would break up before college, find themselves retracing the steps of their relationship on their last evening as a couple. The epic date leads them to familiar landmarks, unexpected places, and ...
Style: romantic, semi serious, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 32 min.
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Story: Cindy, a sharp and restless teenager, grows up happily in the high society of San Pedro Garza García in Nuevo León. When she and her longtime friends enter coeducational high school for the first time, Cindy questions the role of ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A prophetic young dishwasher with brain-damage and a homeless prostitute are brought together through obscene circumstances and embark on a perverse journey through the gutter.
Style: satirical, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After falling off the roof at a New Year's Eve house party, Owen decides that it's time to make some wholesale changes in his life. Over the next year, he quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son's life, reignites old friendships, ...
Style: semi serious, thrilling, captivating, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: christmas, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle change, love interest, changing lives, family relations, love story, love and romance, family problems, romantic relationship, relationships ...
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