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14 Movies Like 500 Days of Summer

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500 Days of Summer tells the story of Tom and his desire to be with Summer, a girl he meets at work. From day one he feels confident that she is the love of his life, which he had hoped for so long. From the beginning of the film, the narrator warns us that it is a story of a boy and a girl, but not one of love; he tells us from the moment they meet, how the relationship flourishes and declines. In fact, Tom lives his 500 days with Summer, but it is told in an atypical way: starting around day 400 and jumping back and forth multiple times throughout the film, which is much more interesting than watching the days go by, one after the other. Check out more movies like 500 Days Of Summer that take a loot at complex relationships, whether between couples or families, or both.

16 Movies To Watch If You Love Mean Girls

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Cady Heron moves from Africa to start Northshore High School, without having socialized with teenagers since her teaching was provided by her parents. Now it is time to adapt to "real" life where she will encounter challenges she previously did not have. She makes the wrong friends and now has to compete with them to become a popular girl in school. But these girls are really mean and will stop at nothing to take her down. This is a light comedy that can also be seen as a coming of age story for our protagonist. Check out more movies like Mean Girls where we also have young women protagonists that are trying to successfully navigate life and everything it throws at them:

15 Teen Comedy Movies Like American Pie

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Four boys are obsessed with losing their virginity. After trying, unsuccessfully on repeated occasions, they end up making a pact, which should help them to become mentally ready to fulfill their goal: they will all have to make love before going to college. Their last chance is therefore the day of the prom. A classic comedy about teens coming of age who want to experience their first sexual encounters. Here is a list of movies like American Pie , mostly with teens who are also looking to experiment, discover themselves and generally get a girlfriend:

17 Gory Horror Movies Like Wrong Turn

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Chris Finn, a young doctor on his way to a work appointment finds the road blocked due to an accident in which dangerous chemicals were spilled. While looking for a phone, Chris finds a gas station where a map indicates a dirt road that will allow him to get to his destination on time. Chris doesn't know it, but by taking this road he puts his life in danger. The first scare takes him away when he crashes into a truck parked in the middle of the road. It is the vehicle of five young men who were in the woods on a hike and were forced to stop when a piece of barbed wire thrown on the road destroyed their tires. Is this a trap? Is someone playing a dangerous game? Discover more scary movies like Wrong Turn where the characters face difficult circumstances after taking a wrong turn and have to overcome mysteries and pure evil to survive.

16 Movies Like Clueless (1995)

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Clueless tells the story of Cher, a young woman belonging to the high society of Beverly Hills, in the county of Los Angeles. Together with her best friend Dionne she struggles against the typical problems of her age, among which are the love, dressing well, being as popular as possible in the institute, etc. The arrival of a new girl to the group called Tai changes the life of the young woman in different ways. This is a very entertaining play, with hilarious satire that captures the reality of teenagers in high school around the 1990s. The rhythm of the film is very agile and in only 97 minutes it tells us a plot that is very realistic and interesting. Check out more movies like Clueless that are also based around characters in high school where they have to deal with issues that are specific to that period in their lives. These are funny comedies with interesting leads that you are sure to enjoy as a fan of Clueless:

12 Movies Like Apocalypto (2006)

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This film is set in the Mayan times where it narrates the facts of hate, love and violence that took place between the tribes of different groups.The protagonist is Garra-Jaguar, a young Indian who is accompanied by his father, his friends and brothers when they are captured by another enemy tribe (Mayan) and taken to be sacrificed to their gods in a brutal way. Then something unexpected happened with Garra-Jaguar at the moment of being sacrificed, a solar eclipse occurred which saved his life and meant that the god Kukulkan was satisfied and fed with the blood of the other victims. Garra-Jaguar thenhas to go through more trials and maybe get revenge on the tribe that murdered his family and friends. Discover more movies like Apocalypto with similar themes of old tribes, rivalries and conflict in ancient times, that includes fighting, getting revenge and even romance:

15 Seductive Movies Like 365 Days (365 DNI)

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Laura Biel has a relationship with a man who doesn't pay too much attention to her. On a trip to Sicily for her birthday, she finds herself fed up with her partner so she decides to run away from him - but ends up lost. She is then kidnapped by a rich mafioso named Massimo Torricelli who is obsessed with her and wants her for himself. Determined to make her choose him on her own, he gives Laura 365 days to fall in love with him, starting a game of seduction that will tempt Laura more and more. Check out these similar movies like 365 days that also have strong themes of seduction, forbidden relationships and unconventional romance:

17 Best Movies Like Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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John and Jane Smith are an ordinary couple who live in the suburbs and have a normal, suburban life. Trapped in a boring, monotonous and totally unemotional marriage for five (or six, they are not sure) years, the married life of John and Jane Smith (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) will take a spectacular turn when they both discover that they have the same profession: they are hired killers. The situation becomes even more complicated when the respective agencies they serve charge them with killing each other. Who will win? Will they go through with it? When looking for movies like Mr. & Mrs. Smith , we searched for films with excitement, action, strong male and female leads plus characters who lead double lives or have closely kept secrets.

18 Movies Like Whiplash (2014)

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Follow the story of Andrew Neiman, a drummer who is studying jazz at the Shaffer Conservatory and wants to be the best, better than anyone else, like a karate master but with the drums. He finds himself practicing alone, sweating and giving it all he's got when Fletcher, the director of the conservatory's study band enters. Fletcher is not just any kind of director, he's very tough. Strict to a fault and this is in direct conflict with Andrew. Fletcher starts abusing psychologically and pushing Andrew's abilities further and further. Andrew pushes himself and seems to go crazy on several occasions. This pursuit of perfection and greatness begins to greatly affect his personal life and how he sees himself. Movies like Whiplash also focus on strong, complex and ambitious characters that strive to achieve perfection in their field, or try to follow their dreams without letting anything get in the way.

14 Movies Like The Shawshank Redemption

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"Red" has been in Shawshank prison for years, sentenced to life in prison for murder. He and the rest of his gang made peace with the place, they're comfortable, the days go by. The walls that used to lock them up, as time goes by, become shields that protect them from the outside world. However, Red differs from the others in something they use as a joke: he is the only prisoner who admits he is guilty of his crime. He is our avatar in the Shawshank prison. Andy Dufresne is a very well wrapped Christmas gift, which both the other characters and we the viewers discover from the minute zero until the end of the film. His low-key performance and the way he naturally accepts both good and bad sounds boring to read but is most interesting to watch in action. It's not clear from the start whether he really killed his wife and lover or was wrongly imprisoned, but it doesn't matter. We don't live in a just world, we live in this one. And as Andy himself admits, bad

17 Movies Like Call Me By Your Name

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The story told in Call me by your name takes place in Italy in the 1980s and stars Elio, a 17-year-old whose father, a prestigious academic researcher, receives Oliver during the holiday season to help him with his academic articles. Oliver is much older than Elio, but what happens between them, which goes from initial rejection to friendship, desire, sexual attraction and complicity, gives rise to one of the most powerful and eloquent discourses on love. This movie tackles a very important subject, and the movies like Call me by your name we recommended here are similar in topic and message.

13 Movies Like Good Will Hunting

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Twenty-year-old Will Hunting, struggles between his brilliant intellect capable of solving any mathematical problem and his bad behavior on the streets of Boston, which causes him, time and again, problems with justice. It is for one of those crimes that Will was about to go to jail, but a professor at MIT proposes a deal to the jury and ends up taking care of the boy, who is forced to commit to two specific tasks: study mathematics under his tutorship and assist a psychologist to help him eliminate criminal actions from his life. Great cast, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and starring Robin Williams in the role that won him his only Oscar. Movies like Good Will Hunting are also about geniuses, people with flaws but a lot of redeeming qualities that have to grow and evolve into better versions of themselves.

19 Movies Like 'Love, Simon' (2018)

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Simon is a young student who has friends with whom he shares his time and a family that loves him very much. But Simon hides a secret he is not ready to share with everyone: he is gay. One day through a message on a school website he meets another boy in the same situation as him and decides to get in touch. Both will maintain a long-distance relationship using only their pseudonyms, until someone starts to blackmail Simon and everything that Simon has feared so much may come to light. Will he cave to the blackmailer? This is a story about normalizing a reality where although much progress has been made there is still a long way to go. Movies like Love, Simon follow similar storyline and messages, looking to tackle some subjects that may still be considered taboo to this day.

10 Movies Like The Platform (El Hoyo)

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Goreng agrees to live in the hole for six months in exchange for a title, but when he wakes up inside level 48, he doesn't know what awaits him. As his only companion he meets Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor) a psychopath and murderer, who explains to him how the place where they are locked up works. Every month they change their level at random, being anaesthetized by a gas and with this they will have access to more or less food and even to nothing. In other levels, Goreng will meet characters like Imoguiri, the admission officer, Miharuwho occasionally goes up and down the platform, looking for her son, and Baharat (Emilio Buale), an important support for Goreng. This movie is mysterious, thrilling and a nice ride for people wanting cool and interesting adventure flicks. When suggesting movies like The Platform, we aimed for movies where characters are in weird or unknown settings, have to adapt and learn how to survive, and maybe even escape.

24 Scariest Movies Like The Conjuring

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The Conjuring is a horror film, but it is also an exercise in style and an evocation of the films of the same genre made more than two decades ago. It's a terror that cuts to the bone, and the most beautiful thing, ironically and from a cinematic point of view, about this genre is that it doesn't resort to extreme violence or the rivers of blood that usually accompany these productions. James Wan has a fine, magical touch to turn your world upside down, keep you on the edge of your seat and disturb your thoughts for a while. A family begins to experience a series of supernatural events that force them to seek help from a partner who is dedicated to investigating these types of cases. Movies like The Conjuring are stylish, chilling and really scary horror films that are well made, have good cinematography and captivating plots.

13 Movies Like Little Lips (Piccole labbra 1978)

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Paul, a veteran of the Second World War, is suffering from a deep depression linked to a wound brought back to the front and is spending a period of rest in a country house, when he falls in love with his 12-year-old niece Eva, an orphan living there, and decides to describe his platonic love for her in a novel. A story about forbidden love, this movie tackles a difficult subject, but does so with grace. If you want more movies like Little Lips (Piccole labbra) , we’ve compiled a list that is similar in tone and topic.

28 Movies Like Contagion

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Contagion finds humanity again in danger of extinction. The emergence of a terrible virus, which spreads at lightning speed and has the power to kill in a few days, arouses fear all over the world. The medical community is overcome by the situation and in addition to the fact that scientists cannot find an antidote, they cannot stop the panic caused by deaths. All this time, ordinary people are also trying to find a way of survival, in a society destroyed by the terrible plague. When looking for movies like Contagion, we searched for movies where a virus or plague was unleashed on the planet or in a community, where people have to fight to contain and overcome the disease/life changing event. This list is also great for anyone looking for movies like the pandemic caused right now in the world by Covid-19.

17 Adventure Movies Like Jumanji (1995)

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Jumanji is a very original adventure movie about a 12 year old boy called Alan, who one day starts to hear a strange drumming noise. When he approaches that strange noise he finds a "magic" board game called Jumanji. One night after arguing with his father he runs away from home and meets his friend Sarah and shows her the strange game. The frightened girl does not want to continue playing but when she throws the dice again the game absorbs Alan in a mysterious way without leaving any trace. Years later Sarah moves with her orphaned nephews Judy and Peter to the old Parrish house. One afternoon, the kids start hearing drumming noises just like young Alan did years before, and an unpredictable adventure with, twists and dangers at every turn begins. This is a classic Robin Williams movie that has everything: comedy, suspense, unpredictability and charm. Movies like Jumani have to have to tick all of these boxes of course. The sequels, Jumanji: Into the Jungle and Jumani: The

15 Best Movies Like Outbreak (1995)

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Outbreak is the typical movie you love even if you say you hate it. Either because the subject is hard to believe or because it's too Hollywood in its outcome. It is about an epidemic in a town in the U.S, something like Ebola but multiplied by 100% in a way that kills. The virus has been "hunted" and eradicated in Africa years ago, and the officials in charge of the eradication are the ones who will hinder their counterparts and the protagonists of the film: some scientists from institutes that treat contagious diseases. The virus reaches the US because of a monkey, and humans start to get infected. Both horrifying and fascinating, this movie is a look at what happens when a deadly pandemic catches the world by surprise. Movies like Outbreak include diseases, or unprecedented developments that have humanity or a group of people fighting to survive in uncharted territory. If you think we missed any similar title that should be on this list, then don't forget to menti

16 Movies Like Knives Out (2019)

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When the famous writer Harlan Thrombey is found breathless in his mansion, just after his 85th birthday, the curious and playful detective Benoit Blanc is appointed to investigate the case. Between Harlan's dysfunctional family and his devoted employees, Blanc juggles secrets and backstage games to find out the truth about the crime. Who is the killer? It’s not who we think. A very enjoyable mysterious “who did it” type movie with a unique take, movies like Knives Out also feature detectives or people investigating(or planning) a crime, trying to find out who the real murderer is, or playing games with others to advance their own agendas.