20 best movies like Screwballs (1983)

List of the best movies like Screwballs (1983): Wild Cherry, Zapped, Mean Girls 2, Jawbreaker, Cadet Kelly, Status Update, High School U.S.A., Can't Hardly Wait, All Cheerleaders Die, Drillbit Taylor.

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Markimdb: 3.9
Genrecomedy
CountryCanada, USA

A virginal high school senior decides to get revenge on her jock boyfriend when she discovers he's only dating her in hopes that she'll end up in his team's "bang book."

Markimdb: 5
Genrefantasy, comedy, family
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:42

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.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:36

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.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

3 of Reagan High School's most popular girls pretend to kidnap their friend by shoving a jawbreaker into the victim's mouth to keep her from screaming. Their plan goes awry when the girl swallows the jawbreaker, choking to death. Now the leader of the pack will do anything to keep the accident a secret.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:41

Hyperactive teenager Kelly is enrolled into a military school when her new stepfather becomes the Commandant. At first she has problems fitting in and taking orders until she tries out for the drill team.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryCanada, USA, China
Duration02:03

After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, a teenager stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

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.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Maddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller — a loner who claims to practice the dark arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. Remake of their own 2001 feature film.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:31

Four best friends negotiate loss and major life changes during the last two weeks of high school.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, comedy, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Eddie Weinbauer, an '80s metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...it's life and death.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM radio station, which happens to be owned by her stepfather. When a slot opens up at The SLAM, Tara surprises herself by blossoming behind the mike into confident, "Radio Rebel" -- and to everyone's shock, she's a hit!

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:32

Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Everything seems perfect—until Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's gay.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, comedy, drama
CountryCanada

Summer war games between the neighborhood kids turns deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix, in this alternately hilarious and horrifying black comedy that mixes equal parts Lord of the Flies and Roald Dahl.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
CountryUSA

High school senior Miles Walton joins the girls volleyball team in hopes of winning a college scholarship, which causes an uproar in his small Illinois farming town.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:30

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:29

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.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:24

When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryCanada

Geeky 14-year old Ethan is left to babysit his younger sister, Jane, with his best friend Benny but after Ethan inadvertently puts Jane in harm's way, his parents hire a professional babysitter, the beautiful yet mysterious 17-year-old Sarah who, unbeknownst to them, is actually a fledgling vampire.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, comedy, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:27

The film centers on Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:27

Young spy Harriet Welsch crosses paths with popular student Marion Hawthorne as the two girls vie to become the official blogger of their high school class.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

When nerdy high schooler Dani finally attracts the interest of her longtime crush, she lands in the cross hairs of his ex, a social media celebrity.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryCanada, USA, Australia

Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:42

    A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    The story is about Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies and is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA

    Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryCanada

    A loser whose life is passing him by accidentally stumbles into a secret underground self-help group for serial killers. Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options - kill or be killed, Joel will have to find his inner serial killer and muster a hidden strength to defeat the maniacs in his midst.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, sport
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:00

    With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off the infamous Goat House, Alex, Sammy and the boys must find a way to convince him to get involved. Despite his new fortune and fame, there is one small favor that Thad needs done before he saves the day: the biggest booze-and-sloot fest in BMS history. Welcome to Thadland!

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:53

    Aoi Nishimori's parents moved to another city for work, but Aoi didn't want to transfer to a new high school. She stays behind and lives in an apartment by herself. Shusei Kugayama moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shusei is a very popular student at their high school. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until Shusei's room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family
    CountryCanada
    Duration00:39

    The film is about a high school tech whiz (Laura Marano), who is determined to become prom queen. But on the big day, she suddenly wakes up having a bad hair day, and her destroyed prom dress, and everything that can go wrong, does go badly wrong. A police officer (Leigh-Allyn Baker) seeks the necklace that the teen somehow ends up possessing. Prom day goes really bad as the pair is pursued by a dogged jewel thief (Christian Campbell) on a wild ride cross around the city.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:18

    Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and happiness. But this year the bet is off, and Santa is about to return to his evil ways.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryCanada

    A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:51

      A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryCanada, USA

      A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:53

      Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:50

      Musical film about the trials and tribulations of an idealistic drama teacher as she tries to put on the end of year show.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:30

      Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      At Big Jim’s Auto Depot there’s only one rule. The last man – or woman – standing wins. Eight teens enter, one teen leaves. Actually, all eight teens leave, but only one leaves with the ride of their dreams. To reach that dream, they’re going through a nightmare. Keep your hand on the car. That sounds simple enough, but two days of sleep deprivation and fierce competition can make things awfully hard.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      When an ordinary boy Davis, suddenly becomes famous at school as people start to believe he's actually a vampire, vampire expert Cameron helps him act like a real vampire.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's mentally unbalanced son, Luke, arrives from rehab to live with the family, Erica finds her domestic and personal life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks Kala and Claudine in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a high school teacher's dark secret.




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