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Plot Summary:
The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
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Promedio Rojo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy comic book aficionado Roberto Rodriguez battles low self-esteem, loser friends and vicious high school bullies as he vies for the heart of Cristina, the hot new girl from Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, Chile, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental, light, touching, offbeat, sex comedy, teen sex comedy
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Willy/Milly (1986)
Plot Summary:
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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French for Beginners (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Henrik, who takes part in a student exchange program with France. The only reason for this journey is to conquer the heart of his dream girl. Wild Partys, exciting trips, a crazy host family and of course his trouble with the French language turn the - at first unmeant - holidays into a memorable summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen comedy
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The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
Plot Summary:
The classic Twain story "The Prince and the Pauper" gets a modern slant when Prince Edward of Gelfland switches places with Southern California surfer Cash Canty. Both discover a new world of romance, danger, and adventure beyond their wildest dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The Adventures of Food Boy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ezra discovers he has a unique ability to make food appear in his hands. He quickly uses his new super powers to impress his friends and to become popular around school for the first time in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, exciting, light, sincere, independent film
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Coming & Going (2011)
Plot Summary:
Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside his successful medical practice. A minor injury temporarily lands him in a wheelchair and it is at that precise time that he meets his dream girl Alex (Sasha Alexander). Convinced she's only paid attention to him because he's in that chair, he stays in it to win her affections well after his injury has healed. Coming & Going is about love and the extreme things people do for it.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Santa, Jr. (2002)
Plot Summary:
While delivering toys, Santa's son (Nick Stabile) is arrested for trespassing. Dispirited, he turns for help to a public defender (Lauren Holly).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
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My Future Boyfriend (2011)
Plot Summary:
P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year 3127. Hoping Elizabeth can explain the concept of love to him, which is now nonexistent in his time, Pax embarks on an adventure filled with new discoveries. Elizabeth introduces Pax to life in the year 2011, filled with love, music and of course, destiny. When Pax doesn’t return to the future by the given deadline, Bob, his fellow scientist, travels back in time to find him. Meanwhile, as Elizabeth helps Pax learn about love, she ends up confiding in her colleague, played by Valerie Harper, about her own upcoming “surprise” engagement.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy
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Date with an Angel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, funny, light, romantic, sexy
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Two of a Kind (1983)
Plot Summary:
God throws his hands up at the foolishness of humanity and orders the race destroyed. A trio of bleeding-heart angels strike a deal with him: if they can find just two good souls, the Lord will allow Earth to survive. Unfortunately, the angels have staked the future of the species on a thieving bank teller and an inventor/con-artist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet, suspense, entertaining
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Teen Wolf (1985)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, cult classic, teen, light, captivating, melancholic, funny
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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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Lovely Complex (2006)
Plot Summary:
Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa (Ema Fujisawa), a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani (Teppei Koike), a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right? Well love doesn’t always follow such logic as Love Complex shows.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, romantic, dorama, shoujo
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How I Got Into College (1989)
Plot Summary:
The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of going to their alma mater of the University of Michigan, while Marlon fights his grades and SAT scores.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, entertaining, satirical, light, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, realistic, inspirational
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Book of Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, her bullying boyfriend. With the help of his pals Crutch, Floyd, and Spider, he makes every attempt possible to change her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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18 Again! (1988)
Plot Summary:
18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sex comedy, romantic comedy, independent film, offbeat, funny
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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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Maid to Order (1987)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, melancholic, light, romantic, sentimental, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ana Maria is having a bad day until she magically switches places with the main character of her favorite telenovela. As she struggles to escape from Novela Land, Ana Maria finally understands why her real life was such a mess.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, telenovela
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Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Fugit) has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, epic, offbeat
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Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Alexia Wheaton hasn't been herself lately. Neighter has her 15-year-old sister Hayley. In fact they've been each other. Alexia becomes fashion-challenged Hayley and she in turn becomes styling Alexia and the complications come fast furious and funny.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous, romantic, teen, semi serious, independent film, erotic, exciting
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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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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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Schools Out (2008)
Plot Summary:
June 1990, a large provincial town. It's the last day of class before the baccalaureate: a small group of graduates happily leaves high school - In the ambient euphoria, Lucas empties his bag: without mince words, he says out loud to his philosophy teacher what he thinks of him. Short-lived relief since the odious Mr. Martineau will finally pass the oral exams - Lucas had better get it right. That same evening, at a party, Lucas meets Clémence, a lovely young girl. Love at first sight seems mutual, but Lucas lets her go without knowing her name. Between lively revisions and summer trips with his friends, he sets out in search of his beautiful stranger. For Lucas, this is only the beginning of the hassle, especially since he accepts private lessons philosophy at Monsieur Martineau's - and that the latter turns out to be the father of a very pretty young girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. Ironically enough, Thakkar's character in the film is exactly the type of person he barred from parties in those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, hot
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Popstar (2005)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girls life gets turned upside down when a new school friend turns out to be a popstar.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, teen, independent film, realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous
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Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. 8, which makes anyone who wears it irresistible to the opposite sex for four hours. Paul and animal psychologist coworker Diane Farrow decide to test it on themselves. The awkward pair suddenly find themselves alluring to anyone they approach, but soon realize they are most attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sweet, feel good, sex comedy, fairy tale, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, hilarious
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13 Going on 30 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, cute, teen, entertaining, sweet
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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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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
Plot Summary:
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, teen, entertaining, funny, feel good, romantic comedy, cute, sweet, humorous, slapstick