Nostalgic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant nostalgic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, eighties, humorous, cult classic, entertaining and epic films and TV shows about / with mentor, destiny, dialogue, childhood, storytelling, friendship, runaway, catastrophe, chase and culture clash plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nostalgic: Sixteen Candles (1984), Stand by Me (1986), Big (1988), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Man in the Moon (1991), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Legends of the Fall (1994), The Goonies (1985), Flight of the Navigator (1986).
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List of nostalgic movies
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, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
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482K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style:
sentimental, cult classic, atmospheric, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, teenager, boy, children, youth, summer, friends, courage, on the road ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
oregon, usa, normandy
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258K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, body swapping, child as adult, magic, coming of age, longing, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, arizona, bronx new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, cute, romantic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, corporal punishment, skinny dipping, sister sister relationship, sibling relationship, first love, childhood, small town, unrequited love, female nudity, sisters, love ...
Time:
year 1957, 50s, 1950s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, usa, louisiana, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, school, teacher, teenage girl, teen angst, teenage angst, teenage boy, rebel, skipping school ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, north america, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, revenge, love triangle, lovers, love, death, relationships, brother brother relationship, native american, suicide, ranch, love story ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 19th century, 1920s, year 1994 ...
Place:
america, usa, montana
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324K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, childhood, treasure map, pirate, treasure, friendship, pirate ship, small town, children, teenage girl, mischievous children, child ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style:
futuristic, feel good, entertaining, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teen drama, preschool
Plot:
time travel, ufo, flying saucer, benign alien, space and aliens, nasa, outer space, space travel, robot, alien, alien abduction, childhood ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1978, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
florida, miami, miami beach, tokyo, japan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
cult classic, teen, talky, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teenage girl, detention, teen angst, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place:
chicago, illinois, seattle
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them - only to have his factory shut down by ...
Style:
talky, intense, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
entrepreneur, business, marketing, underdog, car, corruption, dalmatian, police investigation, biopic, twists and turns, justice, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, future, year 1948, year 1988 ...
Place:
chicago, michigan, washington d.c., detroit, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, cult classic, horror comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, accountant, imagination, giant monster, chase, friendship, librarian, haunting ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1989, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa, new york state ...
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25K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style:
cult classic, light, feel good, retro, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
Is relevant?
105K
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, ...
Style:
feel good, teen, light, cult classic, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
geek, dream girl, nerd, teenager, high school, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, bullying, sexual fantasy, sexual attraction, nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, future, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, friendly alien, space and aliens, chase, boy, child protagonist, bicycle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982, 90s, future
Place:
california, usa, persia, los angeles
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65K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.
Style:
feel good, teen, semi serious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, girls' night, horror for children ...
Plot:
high school, werewolf, coming of age, teenager, school, high school life, friends, basketball, happy ending, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, transformation ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
new jersey, nebraska, north america, california
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, military, androids and robots, animal lover, struck by lightning, lightning, childhood, talking robot, malfunction, cyborgs, androids ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
oregon, usa, astoria oregon, montana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, teen, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot:
high school, friendship, nerd, couples, opposites attract, teenage girl, teenager, cheerleading, pretend relationship, cheerleader, youth, teen romance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Hassled by the school bullies, Daniel LaRusso has his share of adolescent woes. Luckily, his apartment building houses a resident martial arts master: Kesuke Miyagi, who agrees to train Daniel ... and ends up teaching him much more than ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot:
martial arts, teenager, karate, teacher, fight, high school student, underdog, coming of age, childhood, bullying, human spirit, high school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, north america, canada ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, funny, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time, time loop, destiny, teenager, scientist, changing the past or future, inventor, fish out of water, high school ...
Time:
future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sweet, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
ufo, eviction, apartment building, alien robot, benign alien, alien invasion, elderly couple, space and aliens, robot, arsonist, friendship, alien encounter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, hawaii
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style:
feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, manly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
office, rich and poor, aunt nephew relationship, workplace, businessman, passionate kiss, mistaken identity, love triangle, workplace romance, office worker, job promotion, corporation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, kansas, usa, florida, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to ...
Style:
funny, road movie, light, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, high school, childhood, nothing goes right, underage drinking, love and romance, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, high school life, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new jersey
Is relevant?
176K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, gothic, horror comedy, scary ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
vampire, small town, single mother, supernatural, amusement park, goth, teenage boy, vampire hunter, fear, coming of age, brother brother relationship, blood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, wisconsin, pacific ocean, georgia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, humorous, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
hypochondriac, mad scientist, lone hero, dystopic future, rescue, experiment gone awry, experiment, disorder, race against time, goofy hero, danger, destiny ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a ...
Style:
humorous, cult classic, exciting, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, date night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, monster, truck driver, black magic, kung fu, good versus evil, magic, truck, prophecy, mythology, kidnapping, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, north america, hong kong ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, perverse, humorous, action adventure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, manly, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, artifact, treasure, indiana jones, tombs and skeletons, crocodile, good versus evil, treasure map, food ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1984, year 1935
Place:
india, china, shanghai, asia
Is relevant?
108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
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