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How to Lose a Popularity Contest (2026)

A rebellious student and a perfectionist overachiever form an unlikely alliance in their race for student body president, discovering unexpected feelings along the way.

Directed byStephen S. Campanelli

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    Boot Camp

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 94 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Unathletic Whitney Carmichael signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  2. 02

    Kissing Is the Easy Part

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 101 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Sean's gunning for MIT. Flora's ditching the SAT. A secret deal with her tenured parents sparks a romance that challenges everything they believe in.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: high school and teenage romance
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  3. 03

    Finding Emily

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 111 min · Comedy · Romance

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    When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  4. 04

    Candy Jar

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 92 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    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.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: high school and teenage romance
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  5. 05

    Work It

    Strong story similarity

    2020 · 93 min · Comedy · Music

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    A brilliant but clumsy high school senior vows to get into her late father's alma mater by transforming herself and a misfit squad into dance champions.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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  6. 06

    The Last Summer

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 109 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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    Booksmart

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 102 min · Comedy

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    Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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    Prom Pact

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 98 min · Comedy · Romance · TV Movie

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    It's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts tutoring basketball all-star Graham, she must re-evaluate whether her dream school is worth the cost of everything she believes in.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 09

    This Little Love of Mine

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    2021 · 91 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s grandfather – asks Laura to travel to the island and deliver a contract to make Chip his heir, she leaves behind her practice and fiancé Owen to convince her childhood friend to sign a contract that will make him a billionaire.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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    A Hollywood Christmas

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 91 min · Comedy · Romance

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    Jessica, a young, up-and-coming filmmaker in Hollywood has made a name for herself directing Christmas movies. But when handsome network executive Christopher shows up threatening to halt production on her latest movie, Jessica’s assistant, Reena, points out the irony: Jessica isn’t just trying to save her Christmas movie, she’s actually living in one. Jessica must now juggle all the classic tropes—her actors falling in and out of love, a wayward elf dog, and her own stirring romantic feelings for her perceived nemesis—in order to get her movie and her life to their happy endings.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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