Movies like The Hollywood Knights (1980)
The best movies like The Hollywood Knights (1980) are Animal House (1978), Heaven Help Us (1985) and Kenny & Company (1976). If The Hollywood Knights hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFerris Bueller's Day Off (1986)7.6/10 from 5,666 votes
- NewestRevenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)Released 1987
Animal House (1978)
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeaven Help Us (1985)
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKenny & Company (1976)
A coming-of-age story about the lives of a teenage boy and his friends as they traverse the highs and lows of boyhood in the run-up to Halloween.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Losin' It (1983)
In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last American Virgin (1982)
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPorky's II: The Next Day (1983)
When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPorky's (1981)
In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beach Girls (1982)
School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery persons, and passersby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Graffiti (1973)
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPorky's Revenge (1985)
As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game since he has bet on the opposing team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisRevenge of the Nerds (1984)
At Adams College, the jocks rule from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own frat to protect their outcast brothers, the nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
The members of Lambda Lambda Lambda travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to fend off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect — and, of course, if they want to get anywhere with the pretty girls!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeatballs (1979)
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnder the Rainbow (1981)
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Flamingo Kid (1984)
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pom Pom Girls (1976)
A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHardbodies (1984)
Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisZapped! (1982)
Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSurf 2 (1984)
Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Hot Moves (1984)
Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what they can to help each other lose their virginity before the end of the summer. Most of their opportunities are foiled by their inexperience and bad planning. Michael, the most sensible boy of the foursome, really just wants to stay with his long-time girlfriend and take their relationship to an intimate level, but after putting him off for six months he grows impatient and splits up with her to seek his fortune elsewhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Joysticks (1983)
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGas Pump Girls (1979)
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFerris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cheerleaders (1973)
A group of cheerleaders from the local high school decide to show their school spirit for their football team by sleeping with the opponents the night before the game so that they can be so worn out the opposition won't be able to play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoing Berserk (1983)
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics cult, and other crazed characters in the days leading up to his wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGet Crazy (1983)
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCorvette Summer (1978)
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidnight Madness (1980)
A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisClass Reunion (1982)
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party. When guests start getting bumped off, the other alumni, including snooty yacht salesman Bob Spinnaker, class tease Bunny Packard, and class zero Gary Nash, spring into action to uncover the culprit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Hollywood Knights?
The closest matches to The Hollywood Knights are Animal House (1978), Heaven Help Us (1985) and Kenny & Company (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Hollywood Knights?
People who watched The Hollywood Knights most often go on to Animal House (1978), Heaven Help Us (1985) and Kenny & Company (1976).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Hollywood Knights?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), rated 7.6/10 by 5,666 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Hollywood Knights?
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Hollywood Knights?
Yes: Animal House (1978), Heaven Help Us (1985) and Kenny & Company (1976).
How are movies similar to The Hollywood Knights chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Hollywood Knights, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.