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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
Best tv shows and movies like All I Wanna Do (1998):
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New Waterford Girl (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, funny, light, road movie, sexy
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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
Plot Summary:
After seven years in boarding school, Morgan Stewart is finally coming home. He discovers it's not the same happy home it used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, scary, romantic, sexy, clever
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Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels (1966) and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a story by Jane Trahey, and directed by James Neilson. The story depicts the rivalry between the conservative Mother Superior (Russell) and the glamorous, progressive young Sister George (Stevens) as they shepherd a busload of Catholic high school girls across America to an interfaith youth rally being held in Santa Barbara, California. As they debate expressions of faith and role of the Church in the tumultuous America of the sixties, they must also contend with the antics of two rebellious, trouble-prone students, Rosabelle (Susan Saint James) and Marvel Anne (Barbara Hunter).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, freeze frame, cult film
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Kids in America (2005)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny, teen
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The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Plot Summary:
High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the school bully. To deal with this dilemma, Chance turns to the opposite ends of the high school spectrum for help. On one end is the flamboyant drag queen and at the other end, the varsity jock.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, teen, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, teen comedy, corny
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Dick (1999)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about two high school girls who wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, political, light, entertaining, not serious, teen, clever, witty, satirical, black comedy
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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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Harold (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, indie film
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Sugar & Spice (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, feel good, semi serious, teen, cult classic, retro, dark, twisted
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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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St. Trinian's (2007)
Plot Summary:
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: teen, funny, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, witty, uplifting, feel good, black comedy, semi serious
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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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We the Party (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, scenic, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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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Bad Girls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teen butts heads with the teachers at an all-girl charm school in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy
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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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Mean Girls 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a new high school student, Jo (Meaghan Martin) , who agrees to befriend an outcast, Abby (Jennifer Stone), at the urging of Abby's wealthy father in exchange for paying all of Jo's costs for the college of her dreams. Jo and Abby team up to take on the school's mean girls, the Plastics.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, teen, feel good, witty, suspense, stylized, cynical, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Private School (1983)
Plot Summary:
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 dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, humorous, sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, erotic, cult classic, sexual, entertaining, feel good
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Bring It On (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, teen, entertaining, romantic, witty, light, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, funny
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Get Over It (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, romantic, teen, funny, light, sweet, entertaining, humorous, semi serious
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The New Guy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, parody, hilarious, teen, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, entertaining, realistic
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Dirty Deeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
An American Pie-like teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student in years to complete the Dirty Deeds, an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed by the Homecoming banquet at 9 a.m.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, romantic, humorous, semi serious, teen, parody, feel good
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Angus (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sentimental, humorous, teen, touching, realistic, epic, semi serious, independent film
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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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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 196000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, talky, teen, sentimental, cult classic, realistic, funny, melancholic, semi serious, touching
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Plot Summary:
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, teen, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sexy, realistic, heartbreaking, cute
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Wild Child (2008)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious 16 year old Poppy from Mailibu is sent to an English boarding school. Realising her Father isn't coming back to rescue her she tries to get expelled.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, teen, light, sweet, romantic comedy, semi serious, funny, humorous, entertaining
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The DUFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 they'll face the school's mean girl and remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF… and that's totally fine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, teen, humorous, romantic, cute, semi serious, not serious, uplifting, social
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She's All That (1999)
Plot Summary:
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy, light, humorous, sentimental, entertaining, realistic