50 Movies Like High School Musical (2006) You Need to Watch Next
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
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If you loved High School Musical (2006) by Kenny Ortega, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Cheaper by the Dozen, Uncle Buck, Parenthood. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to High School Musical
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2003 · Shawn Levy
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Uncle Buck
1989 · John Hughes
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Parenthood
1989 · Ron Howard
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Dog
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An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Stephan Elliott
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
In common: Comedy
The King of Comedy
1982 · Martin Scorsese
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
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A Real Pain
2024 · Jesse Eisenberg
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The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · David Frankel
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The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 · David Frankel
Andy Sachs returns to Runway as Miranda Priestly navigates a new media landscape and Runway's position within. The duo reconnect with former assistant Emily Charlton, now the head of a luxury brand th
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3 Idiots
2009 · Rajkumar Hirani
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Mean Girls
2004 · Mark Waters
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
In common: Comedy
Friday
1995 · F. Gary Gray
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
In common: Comedy
Annie
2014 · Will Gluck
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her som
In common: Comedy · Family
The Big Short
2015 · Adam McKay
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
In common: Comedy
The Terminal
2004 · Steven Spielberg
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
In common: Comedy
Lolita
1962 · Stanley Kubrick
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon
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This Is Where I Leave You
2014 · Shawn Levy
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Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Jon Avnet
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Instant Family
2018 · Sean Anders
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 yea
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Home Alone 4
2002 · Rod Daniel
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants,
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We Bought a Zoo
2011 · Cameron Crowe
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Big Daddy
1999 · Dennis Dugan
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood.
In common: Comedy
Due Date
2010 · Todd Phillips
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list.
In common: Comedy
Burn After Reading
2008 · Ethan Coen
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. P
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Dedicated to my ex
2019 · Jorge Ulloa
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get mone
In common: Comedy
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
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Vice
2018 · Adam McKay
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Magic Mike
2012 · Steven Soderbergh
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
In common: Comedy
There's Still Tomorrow
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The Intouchables
2011 · Éric Toledano
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Lady Bird
2017 · Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to
In common: Comedy
The Breakfast Club
1985 · John Hughes
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Bri
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Demolition
2016 · Jean-Marc Vallée
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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Patch Adams
1998 · Tom Shadyac
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own care
In common: Comedy
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Wes Anderson
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
In common: Comedy
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Wes Anderson
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The Holdovers
2023 · Alexander Payne
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Babylon
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Another Round
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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Holes
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Dangal
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The Bucket List
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A League of Their Own
1992 · Penny Marshall
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Com
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Hustle
2022 · Jeremiah Zagar
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team's approval. Against
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Little Miss Sunshine
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A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
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