20 movies like Modern Girls, ordered by similarity : Laggies(2014), Beats(2019), American Graffiti(1973), 20th Century Women(2016), While We're Young(2014), Flower(2017), Pork Pie(2017), Sing Street(2016), Moonrise Kingdom(2012), Little Sister(2016), I Got Life!(2017), Pass Over(2018) ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1986
84 Minutes
Cynthia Gibb Virginia Madsen Daphne Zuniga Clayton Rohner Chris Nash Stephen Shellen Rick Overton Quinn Kessler Pamela Springsteen Charles Zucker Carl Weintraub
geek party girl roommate deejay punk rocker ex-boyfriend hedonistic wild amusing los angeles nightclub car street coming of age drinking journey search nightlife lust adventure
A pair of women decide to prank their roommate's nerdy blind date after she stands him up, but end up developing a friendship with him after their practical joke sends them on an all-night odyssey through the 1980s club scene.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
100 Minutes
Keira Knightley Chloë Grace Moretz Sam Rockwell Ellie Kemper Mark Webber Jeff Garlin Gretchen Mol Kaitlyn Dever Daniel Zovatto Jodi Thelen Dylan Arnold
woman boyfriend classmate girl friend teacher amusing charming cheeky quirky grocery store house bedroom school office car growing up life responsibility love
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2019
101 Minutes
Martin Donaghy Brian Ferguson Ryan Fletcher Laura Fraser Rachel Jackson Neil Leiper Lorn Macdonald Kevin Mains
scottish person teenager best friend parent partygoer amusing emotional engaging frenetic gutsy unrestrained scotland home city party rave street friendship rave culture drugs
Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1973
110 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Ron Howard Paul Le Mat Charles Martin Smith Cindy Williams Candy Clark Mackenzie Phillips Wolfman Jack Harrison Ford Bo Hopkins Manuel Padilla Jr.
good guy loser dreamer girlfriend dj amusing cool endearing california restaurant car radio station street cars music romance male bonding friendship growing up love
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
118 Minutes
Annette Bening Elle Fanning Greta Gerwig Billy Crudup Lucas Jade Zumann Alison Elliott Thea Gill Vitaly A. Lebeau Olivia Hone Waleed Zuaiter Curran Walters
single mother adolescent young woman artist neighbor friend brooding emotional creative california house street car party skate park teenage rebellion single mothers helping others change growing up
The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2014
94 Minutes
Ben Stiller Naomi Watts Adam Driver Amanda Seyfried Charles Grodin Adam Horovitz Maria Dizzia Ryan Serhant Dree Hemingway Matthew Maher Brady Corbet
filmmaker wife middle-aged man middle-aged woman couple friend amusing charming cheery classroom club apartment subway new york city street middle age age difference acceptance youth friendship
A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Zoey Deutch Kathryn Hahn Tim Heidecker Adam Scott Joey Morgan Dylan Gelula Maya Eshet Eric Edelstein Romy Byrne
teenager mother stepfather stepbrother vigilante friend amusing brash unrestrained suspenseful emotional gutsy los angeles san fernando valley car pool restaurant bowling alley revenge growing up
A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
2017
105 Minutes
Dean O'Gorman James Rolleston Ashleigh Cummings Antonia Prebble Matt Whelan Ben Mitchell Milo Cawthorne Siobhan Marshall
outlaw cop friend boyfriend girlfriend driver amusing engaging endearing thrilling heartwarming new zealand vehicle barn road on the run big city on the run road trip protest
Accidental outlaws travel New Zealand in a yellow mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with the cops and the media hot on their tail.
Romance, Comedy, Drama, Music
Ireland|UK
2016
106 Minutes
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo Lucy Boynton Jack Reynor Aidan Gillen Maria Doyle Kennedy Mark McKenna Kelly Thornton Ian Kenny Ben Carolan Percy Chamburuka Karl Rice
teen boy teen girl friend band member parent older brother amusing charming cheeky confident engaging inspiring uplifting dublin harbor street city home high school band
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
94 Minutes
Bruce Willis Edward Norton Bill Murray Frances McDormand Tilda Swinton Jared Gilman Kara Hayward Lucas Hedges Charlie Kilgore Andreas Sheikh Chandler Frantz
boy girl mother father police captain scout dreamy quirky witty island wilderness new penzance new england on the run running away young love search family dysfunction misunderstanding storm
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
91 Minutes
Addison Timlin Ally Sheedy Keith Poulson Peter Hedges Barbara Crampton Kristin Slaysman Molly Plunk Rhonda Hansome
nun mother father brother friend family member cheeky hilarious creative church convent north carolina house street car religion love acceptance self-confidence identity
Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, returning to her childhood home in Asheville NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters.
Comedy, Drama
2017
89 Minutes
Agnès Jaoui Thibault de Montalembert Pascale Arbillot Sarah Suco Lou Roy-Lecollinet Nicolas Chupin Rachel Farmane Laurie Bordesoules Armand Paul Jean Samir Guesmi
woman ex-boyfriend husband daughter pregnant woman love interest friend best friend frenchwoman heartwarming amusing hilarious uplifting touching france restaurant bar street life menopause
A woman, separated from her husband, loses her job and discovers she's going to be a grandmother. Refusing to be pushed to the outskirts of society, she puts her foot down and decides to start over.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
74 Minutes
Jon Michael Hill Julian Parker Ryan Hallahan Blake DeLong
young man stranger police officer friend homeless person amusing bleak tense offbeat witty spirited chicago street corner street friendship homelessness leaving home police brutality shoot-out adventure
Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1986
89 Minutes
Wil Wheaton River Phoenix Corey Feldman Jerry O'Connell Kiefer Sutherland Casey Siemaszko John Cusack Gary Riley
boy brother writer father friend bully brooding endearing oregon woods swamp junkyard youth expedition family dysfunction male bonding coming of age growing up discovery rivalry
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
Comedy, Drama
1999
103 Minutes
Desmond Askew Taye Diggs William Fichtner J.E. Freeman Katie Holmes Jane Krakowski Breckin Meyer Jay Mohr Timothy Olyphant Sarah Polley Scott Wolf
storekeeper drug dealer undercover cop teen girl wife actor frenetic playful cool grocery store street car los angeles las vegas strip club drugs set-up accident hedonism road trip
A checkout girl covering for a co-worker (Desmond Askew) faces danger from a drug dealer she double-crosses out of desperation.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Liana Liberato Isabelle Fuhrman Jessica Alba Josh Lucas Luke Wilson Claire van der Boom Joel Courtney Patrick Schwarzenegger
friend teen girl feminist activist eleanor roosevelt amusing thrilling witty uplifting united states search cuban missile crisis feminism activism chain gangs friendship travel adventure growing up adventure
Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Drama, Music, Comedy
UK|USA|France
2019
114 Minutes
Viveik Kalra Hayley Atwell Rob Brydon Kulvinder Ghir Nell Williams Aaron Phagura Meera Ganatra Dean-Charles Chapman Sally Phillips
teenager father mother friend love interest teacher powerful uplifting inspiring hilarious cheeky england high school house bedroom new york city bruce springsteen music growing up culture
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
93 Minutes
Dakota Fanning Toni Collette Alice Eve Patton Oswalt Michael Stahl-David River Alexander Tony Revolori Jessica Rothe William Stanford Davis
autistic person caregiver writer traveler runaway amusing inspiring moving positive endearing nursing home car highway runway autism writing following your dreams competition road trip coming of age
A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
78 Minutes
Mia Rose Frampton Stony Blyden Beau Brooks Lauren Giraldo Pej Vahdat Beth Lacke Juliette Angelo Kate Rachesky
cancer patient survivor boyfriend friend family member amusing endearing moving touching charming high school cafeteria hospital doctor's office gym classroom survival new life second chance friendship
When 18 year old Hope Gracin suddenly finds herself in remission from end-stage cancer, she must learn to live without an expiration date.
Comedy, Drama
Norway
2001
84 Minutes
Per Christian Ellefsen Sven Nordin Per Christensen Jørgen Langhelle Marit Pia Jacobsen Hilde Olausson Ola Otnes
son mentally challenged person friend roommate amusing touching charming offbeat apartment mental institution restaurant oslo, norway friendship mental illness phobias poetry roommates adventure discovery transformation
When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
98 Minutes
Chris Makepeace Adam Baldwin Martin Mull Matt Dillon Paul Quandt Joan Cusack Dean R. Miller Tim Reyna Richard Bradley Denise Baske Hank Salas
rich kid bully bodyguard friend father grandmother amusing brooding gutsy chicago school bullying teen angst unlikely friendship fighting troubled youth coming of age underdog transformation growing up
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.