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Plot Summary:
When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, surreal, light, road movie, humorous, semi serious, absurd, realistic, clever, feel good
Best tv shows and movies like Heartbreak Hotel (1988):
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Harem Holiday (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is travelling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so impressed with his on-screen adventures that they want to hire him to carry out an assassination for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, psychotronic, realistic, exotic, campy
Similar in 78%
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
Similar in 84%
Three Days to Vegas (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, light, sincere
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Teenage Millionaire (1961)
Plot Summary:
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
Similar in 78%
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Plot Summary:
A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, rough
Similar in 87%
Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Back Roads (1981)
Plot Summary:
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, talky, hispanic, campy
Similar in 79%
Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Smooch (2011)
Plot Summary:
An imaginative youngster (Kiernan Shipka) comes across an amnesiac prince (Simon Kassianides), who she believes is a fairy-tale figure. Convinced the man would be perfect for her widowed mom (Kellie Martin), she launches a plan to set the two up, starting by tricking her mom into hiring him as the new nanny. Directed by Ron Oliver.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, light, entertaining
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Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)
Plot Summary:
A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, feel good, realistic, light, exciting, not serious, parody
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Grease Live! (2016)
Plot Summary:
After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: light, lyrical, sentimental, feel good, captivating, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, clever
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I'll Be There (2003)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious
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16 to Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy. A small town teenager's angst about sexual inexperience drives a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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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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Fathers' Day (1997)
Plot Summary:
After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and when his father refuses to go after him. His mother, Collette, then goes to one of her former boyfriends, Jack, a lawyer, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack initially refuses. So she goes to another boyfriend, Dale, who goes off looking for Scott. Eventually the two men meet and realize that they are looking for the same boy and that Collette told them they are the boy's father. What follows is a mad chase, cause the boy doesn't want to go back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, melancholic, road movie, feel good, realistic, not serious, funny, hilarious, retro
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Joy of Sex (1984)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Leslie Hindenberg, mistakenly believing she has just weeks to live, decides she will lose her virginity before she dies.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, erotic, sexual, sexy, entertaining, absurd, light
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Gretchen (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, indie film, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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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Only the Lonely (1991)
Plot Summary:
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, melancholic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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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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Cry-Baby (1990)
Plot Summary:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, light, parody, teen, feel good, surreal, cult classic, dark comedy, retro
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R.T.T. (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic
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Rock of Ages (2012)
Plot Summary:
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, sexy, romantic, visually appealing, light, stylized, humorous, sentimental, inspirational
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Friend Zone (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bilbao, Spain. After breaking up with Elisa, his girlfriend for several years, Txema meets Claudia, a gorgeous Argentinian girl, in a very awkward situation. They become friends so soon and so easily that Txema misinterprets Claudia's feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Kicking the Dog (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twelve friends spend one last great summer together, partying and reminiscing, ultimately realizing they will soon go their separate ways in life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, melancholic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, sex comedy, offbeat
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Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Plot Summary:
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, funny, light, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, cult classic, teen
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Grease (1978)
Plot Summary:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 295000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, romantic, light, humorous, teen, sexy, sweet, cult classic, semi serious
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Nine Months (1995)
Plot Summary:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, funny, hilarious