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Plot Summary:
Emma, the studious editor of the school paper, is tempted by the most popular boy in school, Chris Duval, to cheat. She is given a magical necklace that will give her 3 chances.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Chalk It Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a super girly-girl is dumped by her boyfriend; she decides to do everything she can to get him back by building a college gymnastics team, quickly learning that she is capable of a lot more than just getting an MRS degree.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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The Grad Job (2014)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers, in their last year of High School, steel the subjects of the Baccalaureate from the education exam division in order to succeed at the exam.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, realistic
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Worst. Prom. Ever. (2011)
Plot Summary:
Clark has planned the perfect prom for his girlfriend Sharon. His plans are hijacked when Sharon invites her two best girlfriends, Neve and Heather, and their dates along on the perfect evening, but things only get worse. When all three are deserted by their dates at the beginning of prom, the trio go back out to their limo, where the driver has cleaned out the mini bar and takes them on a wild ride that lands them in a holding cell and ends with them crashing another school's prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, suspenseful
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Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
Plot Summary:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high-school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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Bringing Up Bobby (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama
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Waltzing Anna (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative career turns out to be something very different, thanks to the wacky residents and a beautiful nurse.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Kid & I (2005)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, semi autobiographical
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12 Wishes of Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose dog was taken by her landlord follows her life coach's instructions to make 12 wishes for a better future, and watches in surprise as each of those wishes comes true in this Christmas fantasy for the entire family. Laura was already down in the dumps when her strict landlord took away her beloved four-legged friend. Encouraged by her best friend to seek the help of a life coach, Laura begrudgingly takes the leap. Later, as Laura follows instructions to make 12 wishes for a better life, her deepest desires become reality. But every wish has its consequences, and with Christmas fast approaching Laura must now figure out a means of getting her dog back, and her life on track in time for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious
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The F**k-It List (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
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Impractical Jokers: The Movie (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of a humiliating high school mishap from 1992 that sends the Impractical Jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and redeem three of the four Jokers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, romantic, funny, absurd
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Special Delivery (2008)
Plot Summary:
A bonded courier transports a bratty teenager on an international flight, but realizes a trap has been set up for them when they reach the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, suspenseful, semi serious
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Pizza (2005)
Plot Summary:
A pizza deliveryman develops a bond with a girl nearly half his age.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
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General Education (2012)
Plot Summary:
Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. General Education is a quirky comedy about a family learning to grow together.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic, independent film
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The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Plot Summary:
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, romantic, scenic, teen, realistic, semi serious
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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Plot Summary:
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 bully breakdancers, to win the heart of a disinterested girl, and live up to the name, "The Breakdance Kid".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
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All I Wanna Do (1998)
Plot Summary:
If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike back... and the girls wage an all-out assault in an outrageous battle of the sexes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, period piece, relaxing, realistic
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Just One of the Girls (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sentimental, light, captivating, erotic, sex comedy
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Cheats (2002)
Plot Summary:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
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Full of It (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young kid (Pinkston) is forced to live out the lies he told to become popular.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, South Africa, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, ridiculous
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Expelled (2014)
Plot Summary:
Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, realistic, funny, disgusting, cynical, feel good, not serious, offbeat
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The Graduates (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, captivating
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I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Plot Summary:
15 year old Brendan Willy hates himself for being un-cool when he falls in love with the girl of his dreams. Enter Mr. Five, a no good tempter from hell, which in his last attempt to ensnare a soul before being fried for eternity, transforms Brendan into the coolest kid in Indiana, only to find out that this contract isn't going to be easy at all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, Simon and Maximilian in his journey to find the girl he has fallen in love with.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Prankster (2010)
Plot Summary:
To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating the inequities of high school through masterful acts of subterfuge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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Trippin' (1999)
Plot Summary:
Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His mom wants him to apply to colleges, but Greg hasn't a clue. One of his teachers, Mr. Shapic, tries to inspire him, too. He finally figures out he can get close to Cinny if he asks her for help with college applications. But friendship isn't enough, he wants romance and a prom date. So, he tells a few lies and, for awhile, it seems to be working. Then, things fall apart and Greg has to figure out how to put the trippin aside and get real.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Campus Confidential (2005)
Plot Summary:
School... there is the popular crowd. Teachers favor some students over others. Because of this, Violet decides to start a school paper, which exposes many embarrassing secrets of popular kids who think they run the campus.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen
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The Weekend (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the spirit of "Superbad" and "Dazed and Confused," "The Weekend" relishes the moments that made being a teenager so excruciatingly painful and fantastic. Over the course of a single weekend, various teenagers discover that, perhaps, they don't yet have it all figured out: Rich kid Jacob throws an elaborate weekend party, Benjamin thinks he's going to marry his hesitant girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, teen sex comedy, teen, epic, sexual, campy
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Zapped (2014)
Plot Summary:
Zoey is a talented dancer whose organized life is rudely disrupted when she moves in with her new step-dad and three step-brothers, until she discovers a dog-training app that can get boys to obey her every command. But she soon learns that it isn't the cure-all she had hoped for.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, teen, light, feel good, funny, offbeat, teen comedy, fun
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The Outcasts (2017)
Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, touching, realistic
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The Liverpool Goalie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen year old Jo is a smart thinker of a guy, and has a very vivid imagination, but is bothered by his fellow classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. Still he tries to cope with this difficult time in life. He's doing the homework of the "bad guy" in his class, son of a rich salesman of caravans. Jo's mother is seeing dangers all around, being overprotective, and trying to hide her affair with the psychologist neighbor. Every kid in the street is trying to get hold of a football-card with the goalie of Liverpool. This is to kill for.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious