Movies like Back to School

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Back to School (1986)
 6.7
 36K
Back to School (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
Style: funny, humorous, light, talky, semi serious, witty, hilarious, clever, laugh out loud, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: college, fish out of water, university, youth, college life, farce, cheerleader, school, switching roles, adaptation, father son relationship, parents and children, sexual fantasy, teachers and students, family relations, follow your dream, disorder, high school, female nudity, teenager, graduation, friendship, education, sex, teacher ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1940, future
Place: usa, wisconsin, new york
Keyword: oldies, american, outburst, gangsters, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Back to School

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and teen comedy films with plots about youth, college, high school, teenager, love and romance, love and party mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Back to School: Caddyshack (1980), Husband For Hire (2008), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Sixteen Candles (1984), Loser (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.2
 126K
Caddyshack (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style: funny, slapstick, light, intense, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, adult
Plot: golf, country club, female nudity, public nudity, nudity, teenage girl, nude girl, rivalry, boobs, lust, swimming pool, peeping tom ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, nebraska
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100%
Husband For Hire (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Husband for Hire is a 2008 comedy television film that premiered on Oxygen Network on January 24, 2008. Husband for Hire was written and directed by Kris Isacsson, and it starred Nadine Velazquez, Tempestt Bledsoe, Mark Consuelos, Erik Estrada and ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, scolding, ritual, party, family business, inheritance, heiress, in love, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, youth, party, fraternity, student life, high school, college life, coming of age, rich snob, flirting, sex ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.0
 125K
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, teenage life, high school life, youth, self discovery, teenage girl, teenage love, first love, female nudity, teen romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Loser (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: college, college student, loser, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, small town, teenager, friendship, opposites attract, naivete, nerd, coming of age, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Private School (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, sex, voyeurism, girls' boarding school, high school, female pubic hair, cheerleader, friends, voyeur, female nudity, college, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Just One of the Guys (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, high school, gender disguise, adolescence, gender bending, college, sexism, prom, hidden identity, switching roles, coming of age, gender bender ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: california, phoenix arizona, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.6
 22K
Summer School (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with ...
Style: funny, laugh out loud, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: teacher, summer, summer school, teenager, high school, teacher student relationship, teaching, teenage girl, gym teacher, dyslexia, underage drinking, chainsaw ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Style: humorous, teen, funny, sex comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, misfit, youth, looking for sex, high school, party, dumb, stupidity, friendship, lifestyle, culture clash, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sex comedy, funny, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: college, nerd, sex, sorority, bullying, prank, high school, youth, underdog, cheerleader, teenage girl, college freshman ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: usa, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
 9K
Soul Man (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, ...
Style: humorous, controversial, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, college, high school, mentor, teenager, culture clash, happy ending, coming of age, black, teenage sex, black man, interracial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 245K
Legally Blonde (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: lawyer, girl power, sorority, fashion, blonde, law school, college, law, university, trial, believe in yourself, law student ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, boston, massachusetts, los angeles, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 140K
Accepted (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, college life, high school, youth, student, education, party, coming of age, slacker, campus, college student ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 46K
Fired Up! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2 Guys. 300 Girls. You Do the Math. The two most popular guys in high school decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
Style: sex comedy, teen, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, high school, fall in love, teenager, football, college, youth, love and romance, bare breasts, erotica, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style: parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.4
 129K
Animal House (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Style: humorous, funny, light, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: college, beer, female nudity, marijuana, party, youth, sorority, revenge, cheerleader, overweight, lust, fraternity ...
Time: year 1962, year 1978, 20th century, 60s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 215K
17 Again (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside ...
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, youth, body swapping, teenage life, popularity, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, high school life, bullying, family relations, college, wish come true ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It is freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and the dean rules the school. Van embarks on a crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin, and liberate his school ...
Style: sex comedy, sexual, humorous, not serious, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, bare chested male, male masturbation, looking for sex, dream girl, cheerleader, teenager, high school, youth, teenage love, couples, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 156K
Billy Madison (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly
Plot: graduation, elementary school, stupidity, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, high school, family business, mentor, happy ending, father son relationship, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.2
 37K
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, vengeance, writers, transformation, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, haunted by the past, teachers and students, rivalry, family relations, humiliation, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Freshman Orientation (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A typical Midwestern 18 year-old freshman at a large state university eager to delve into the college party life, instead discovers that school is not the beer-driven, sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, sorority, fraternity, lesbian, pretending to be gay, hidden identity, teenage life, looking for love, lifestyle, unlikely couple, love and romance, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 174K
She's the Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Viola Johnson is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: high school, teenager, soccer, cross dressing, tomboy, roommate, teenage love, teen romance, high school life, teenage life, hidden identity, gender disguise ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.3
 15K
Slackers (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these ...
Style: sexy, humorous, funny, satirical, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, slacker, teenage love, stoner, high school, blackmail, friends, disorder, cons and scams, love triangle, lifestyle, goofy hero ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Secret Admirer (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high-school heartthrob Michael receives an unsigned love letter, he assumes it's from knock-out prom queen Deborah Anne instead of pretty honor student Toni. And when Michael accidentally misplaces the letter, the juicy jottings soon make ...
Style: teen sex comedy, light, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, high school, love and romance, love, school, secret admirer, summer vacation, summer, farce, fraternity, voyeur, relationships ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 101K
The DUFF (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together ...
Style: feel good, funny, teen, rom com, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, youth, high school life, coming of age, school, adolescence, friendship, teenage life, stereotypes, college, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Better Off Dead... (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, dark comedy, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, skiing, teenager, high school, suicide attempt, youth, slutty attitude, machismo, teenage love, young lovers, rivalry, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: usa, california, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 14K
PCU (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, college life, fraternity, high school, friendship, university, party, hippie, school, satire, friends, weekend ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 242K
Old School (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, hilarious, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: college, college life, friendship, beer, fraternity, public nudity, youth, caught cheating, high school, disorder, college student, stoner ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 24K
100 Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This sexy, teen-comedy is about a freshman, Matthew, at college who meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a blackout. He never sees her face, but instantly falls in love. In the morning, the power is restored, but the "dream girl" ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, romantic, talky, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: college, youth, fall in love, elevator, college life, high school, battle of the sexes, man disguised as a woman, sex in an elevator, lust, attempted rape, misogynist ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Teacher's Wife (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Todd Boomer is a college student aspiring to get into University. His chances are looking poor when his maths teacher, fails him in every maths test. Help arrives in the guise of the gorgeous Vicki, a mathematical genius who decides to tutor Todd. ...
Style: sexual, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: unfaithful wife, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, adultery, teacher student relationship, infidelity, older woman younger man, tutor, unlikely couple, teachers and students, female nudity, voyeur ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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