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50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shot in and around the central Otago communities of Omakau, Ophir and Alexandra, A coming-of-age film that centers on overweight 12-year old Billy who is not interested in being a farmer and doesn't care for Rugby. His escape is the fantasy ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen fantasy
Plot: friendship, youth, bullying, lgbt, childhood, gay, rugby, teenage love, teenage life, social misfits, lifestyle, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: new zealand
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 2.4
 3K
Blubberella (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An action comedy centered on Blubberella, an overweight half-vampire woman whose footsteps cause explosions and whose dual swords are used against anyone who makes fun of her. She must face an army of undead Nazi soldiers in her valiant struggle ...
Style: not serious, humorous, exciting, light, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, world war two, obesity, good versus evil, heroes, danger, escapades, female protagonist, stereotypes, superhero, zombie, nazi occultism ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1940
Place: europe, germany
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 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
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 7.9
 616K
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz ...
Style: feel good, 3d animation, humorous, funny, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, toy story, toy comes to life, toys, chase, villain, outer space, falling from height, kidnapping, little boy, anthropomorphism, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: ohio
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 6.9
 62K
A Goofy Movie (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Though Goofy always means well, his amiable cluelessness and klutzy pratfalls regularly embarrass his awkward adolescent son, Max. When Max's lighthearted prank on his high-school principal finally gets his longtime crush, Roxanne, to notice ...
Style: slapstick, road movie, cult classic, hilarious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: father son relationship, road trip, childhood, on the road, concert, near death experience, anthropomorphic animal, wilhelm scream, vacation, dog, map, last day of school ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, ohio, usa, arizona, idaho ...
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The Hanging Garden (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but ...
Style: independent film, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, wedding ceremony, dysfunctional family, suicide, coming of age, caught having sex, obesity, homosexual, glbt, sexuality, family relations, hanging ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. ...
Style: fast, feel good, humorous, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: laboratory, fraternity, experiment, super powers, science and technology, humour, rivalry, college, school, cow, overweight, arrest ...
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 6.0
 2K
Bruno (2000)
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, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
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 7.0
 3K
Yossi (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The sequel to "Yossi and Jagger" finds character Yossi (Ohad Knoller) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his otherwise staid ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male nudity, gay soldier, bereavement, lgbtq, love and romance, workplace situations, workplace, fall in love, nudity, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, middle east, israel, tel aviv israel
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The Nutty Professor (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: overweight, split personality, african american, inventor, alter ego, experiment gone awry, campus, farce, love, black, goofy hero, teacher ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: madagascar, usa
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 5.2
 17K
Paradise Hills (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.
Style: atmospheric, colorful, twisted, apocalyptic, offbeat ...
Plot: women, teenage girl, dystopic future, high society, island, classism, social problems, lgbt, overweight, therapy, feminist, woman ...
Time: future
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 6.6
 157
Bogan Pride (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bogan Pride is an Australian comedy television series which first screened on SBS TV in 2008. The six-part series created by and starring actress, Rebel Wilson, is directed by Peter Templeman and produced by Tony Ayres and Michael McMahon. The ...
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
Plot: competitor, satire, money, girlfriend, teenager, teenage girl, dancer, dance, ambition, lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian relationship ...
Place: australia
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Less Than Kind (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, coming of age, family life, jewish family, parents and children, teenage life, family business, disorder, self destructing, youth, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.0
 144K
Shallow Hal (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, kids, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: overweight, womanizer, love story, dating, relationships, fall in love, adaptation, honest, love and romance, delusion, power of love, looking for love ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, new york, boston
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 6.7
 138K
Hairspray (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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 4.9
 258
Eye Catcher! (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: schizophrenic, losing-it hero, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, youth, social misfits, vengeance, physical appearance, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 258
Pepperminta (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, surreal, inspirational, offbeat ...
Plot: against the rules, peaceful mission, idealism, optimism, rebelliousness, rebellion, fall in love, youth, hopes, human spirit, society, friendship ...
Place: switzerland, europe
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 5.3
 253
Fear Town, USA (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On St. Blevins Day (the most debauched of regional holidays), four boys looking to lose their virginity, a girl haunted by a dark secret, a lonely teenager, and an escaped mental patient all meet at a party in the woods. They were looking for fun ...
Style: parody, slasher, suspense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: psychopath, serial murder, seduction, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violence, fear, murder, characters killed one by one, terror, party, revenge ...
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 6.4
 11K
Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, feel good, sexy, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: porn, sex, filmmaking, nudity, best friends in love, best friend, videotaped sex, porn actor, pornographic video, high school, strong sexual content, adult filmmaking ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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Who's Your Daddy? (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautiful co-workers come to his aid.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, humorous, not serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sexual humor, teenage love, fish out of water, lifestyle, rise to the top, looking for love, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, love and romance, youth, disorder, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s
Place: ohio, usa, beverly hills
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Style: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: kidnapping, private detective, investigation, justice, law enforcement, stupidity, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, father daughter relationship, cons and scams, family business, clumsiness ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: santa monica california, california, los angeles
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 4.9
 2K
Disorderlies (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, talky, slapstick ...
Plot: hip hop, justice, hospital, unlikely criminals, switching roles, fish out of water, disorder, goofy hero, dishonesty, crime gone awry, misfit, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: miami
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 7.3
 122K
Crimson Tide (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, underwater, u.s. navy, military, nuclear, war, spy, sea ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, pacific ocean, mediterranean sea, alabama
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Primetime Glick (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jiminy Glick, a character first introduced on the The Martin Short Show now has his own show. His gross incompetence and clueless confidence shine in conversations with various celebrities. There's also an opening monologue with Glick that ...
Style: parody, humorous, absurd, dark comedy, spoof
Plot: talk show, interview, disorder, artists and showbiz, celebrity, monologue, fame, tv star, satire, cell phone, overweight, actor ...
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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, ...
Style: sexy, surreal, independent film, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, recurring dream, female nudity, mysterious disappearance, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, gay interest, disappearance, 17 year old ...
Time: year 1988, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.9
 5K
Otis (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag ...
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, prom, kidnapping, vengeance, danger, missing person, cheerleader, teenage life, child in peril, fbi, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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Lying to Be Perfect (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: By day, Nola Devlin (Poppy Montgomery) is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. When the sun sets, though, and she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cinderella story, friendship, life turned upside down, looking for love, love and romance, hidden identity, disorder, couples, weight loss, workplace, physical appearance, lie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 145
Passover Fever (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: israeli, twins, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, nanny, eating disorder, family problems, couples, family gatherings, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: israel
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I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: food, fall in love, parents and children, looking for love, love and romance, actor's life, lifestyle, couples, disorder, friendship, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, chicago
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