Tags: movies similar to The Breakfast Club (1985) - full list
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, setting out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect. What follows is a love story with a fantastical twist, as the two struggle to figure out how -- and whether -- to escape their never-ending day.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Three British graduates blag jobs at an elite American summer camp. The guys want a summer of fun, but they have to set an example to the gorgeous teenage offspring of California's rich and powerful.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
Dylan Schoenfield is the pink princess of the upscale Los Angeles Woodlands Academy. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new it bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her Serge Sanchez bag into a fountain, this princess comes face-to-face with her own personal frog, self-professed film geek Josh Rosen. In return for rescuing Dylan's bag, Josh convinces Dylan to let him film her for his documentary on high school popularity. Reluctantly, Dylan lets F-list Josh into her A-list world, and is shocked to realize that sometimes nerds can be pretty cool. But when Dylan's so-called prince charming of a boyfriend dumps her flat, her life and her social status comes to a crashing halt. Can Dylan win the Woodlands Academy Fall Formal Blossom Queen crown? Can Josh win the Woodlands Academy 10th Annual Film Festival? Can Dylan, with Josh's help, pull the pieces together to create her own happily-ever-after?
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Germany, USA |
Duration | 02:26 |
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not allowed out unauthorized. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:37 |
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, musical, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:24 |
A coming-of-age movie that tells a story unfolding in every high school around the country -- a story of kids hiding their true identities in plain sight, even as they feverishly pursue their hearts' desires.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:20 |
Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:26 |
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:51 |
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:24 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 03:19 |
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA, Mexico |
Duration | 01:30 |
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:42 |
Clifford Peach, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their "business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators - and a very special friendship with each other.