Since American Pie was released in 1999, we have not stopped seeing countless films parade through theaters that try to take advantage of the wake left by the Weitz brothers’ film. The American Pie Saga has marked a large audience during 1999 and 2012, years in which films and spin-offs were released. The first film revolutionized the teenagers of the time, becoming a success.
In each of the film series and movie, there is the same protagonist: sex, although it appears in different ways since from the first film to the last, we see an evolution of its characters. They start out as teenagers about to start college but end up as adults united by marriage and sexual dramas. Below are movies similar to American Pie, which you may also enjoy.
There are some favorite movies listed below and then, there are some that you may not have known about. Here are a few favorites:
Favorites
Super Salty
October 19, 2007 in theaters/1h 52min
Comedy Movie
Directed by Greg Mottola
Screenplay Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg
Cast Members: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: This film is not recommended for children under 18 years of age. Evan and Seth are very good friends, but sadly they will see their separate lives as they each study at a different university. However, this did not go towards causing their good relationship to be broken.
It is rather the opposite because thanks to the distance that separated them, they realized the importance of having trusted people around them.
As the funniest action unfolds, one of the most popular girls in high school is promised to bring alcohol to her party, according to her plans, a great pre-college farewell that will make them become famous by losing their virginity on prom night. Their friend Fogell helped them in the mission with the elaboration of a false card to buy the desired drink, but everything is spoiled when he is captured by the police.
Will Evan and Seth achieve long-awaited popularity when they arrive at the university? You have to watch the movie to find out.
Virgin At 40
November 4, 2005 in theaters/1h 57min
Sex Comedy
Directed by Judd Apatow
Screenplay Judd Apatow, Steve Carell
Cast Members: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, and Paul Rudd
Original title: The 40 Year Old Virgin
Awards: Winner of 2006 AFI Award, 2005 nominee for Awards Circuit Community Awards, and Winner of 2005 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards; among others
Synopsis: The plot revolves around the figure of Andy, a 40-year-old virgin who has practically wasted his existence by not having much social life and who dedicates himself entirely to his job. He is in charge of carrying out and validating the receipts in an establishment dedicated to the appliance market, something that does not bring him a large amount of money, but at least allows him to reach the end of the month without excessive difficulties.
Also noteworthy is the fact that he has a flat where he is alone and where he compiles a huge collection of dolls from his childhood and video games to which he dedicates several hours a week, inviting his colleagues to engage them in a good friendly relationship. However, there is an issue that has caused him a series of headaches over many years and from which he has not yet been able to remove the thorn despite many attempts.
The point is that the protagonist has never had the opportunity to make love with a woman, so his colleagues will try by all means to get rid of his heavy burden and get the reward he has been looking for as a man.
Sex Drive
July 31, 2009 in theaters/1h 45min
Comedy, Adventure, and Romantic
Directed by Sean Anders
Screenplay Sean Anders, and Andy Behrens
Cast Members: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, and James Marsden
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: This is an original series where Ian is a young man who decides to embark on a journey with Lance and Felicia, his lifelong best friends. The trip will be peculiar as Ian will have to lose his virginity to a beautiful and very hot girl that he met while chatting on the internet. Thus, the three friends will live a series of very crazy adventures, some very picaresque, that will make them change their concept of life forever. This American comedy film has been directed by Sean Anders.
Other Movies
Below are other similar movies to the American Pie movie:
Bad Example
January 30, 2009 in theaters/1h 38min
Comedy
Directed by David Wain
Screenplay Timothy Dowling, and William Blake Herron
Cast Members: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Original title: Role Models
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) are two sales representatives who, after drinking energy drinks in excess, destroy the truck of the company they work for. The court will give them a choice between imprisonment and a 150-hour orientation program. Both choose to do the program, although later they end up regretting it.
Each character in this comedy whose plot could make anyone allergic to too much sugar bristle (two disastrous adults must act as caretakers and reference figures for a couple of kids; at first they hate work, but they will end up getting along with the little ones). Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott, Jane Lynch, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse carry out their characters’ convictions to the end.
Another Gay Movie
June 8, 2007 in theaters/1h 32min
Comedy
Directed by Todd Stephens
Screenplay Todd Stephens
Cast Members: Jonathan Chase , Jonah Blechman , Mitch Morris
Original title: Another Gay Movie
Awards: Nominee of 2007 Golden Trailer Awards and Winner of the 2006 Grand Jury Award
Synopsis: This film is not recommended for children under 18 years of age. The story focuses on four young people whose only thing they have in common is that they are gay, but for everything else, they are very different. Andy is obsessed with sex and spends the day masturbating with vegetables.
Jarod is a very attractive promising athlete who is not very successful because of his insecurities. Griff is another young man who has been in love for years with one of his friends, Nico, a very outgoing and very effeminate young man. They just finished high school and the four of them decide to make a pact. They must have sex before the summer is over.
Project X
June 8, 2012 in theaters/1h 27min
Comedy
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh
Screenplay Matt Drake (II), and Michael Bacall
Cast Members: Thomas Mann (II), Oliver Cooper, and Jonathan Daniel Brown
Awards: Nominee of 2012 Golden Trailer Awards, 2013 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, and 2012 MTV Movie + TV Awards
Synopsis: Nima Nourizadeh has not stopped until she shows us once and for all what a real party is like. Neither filming clips of trackers from the past decade like Hot Chip or Yelle, nor the cool ad for Adidas on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the sportswear house were enough. The Briton has had to ally himself with Todd Philipps, another anthological reveler, to film the mother of all parties.
With the permission of the Lloret de Mar tourists. Nourizadeh actually transforms the celebrated commercial (‘House Party’, 2010) into a feature film, so it is not difficult to guess what one might find in ‘Project X’. However, and despite the fact that the work sometimes flirts with the ‘MTV Fiestuqui’ aesthetic, the film knows how to join the cinematographic tradition that ‘La Fiesta’ represents as the first ritual of initiation to adult life.
‘Project X’ comes to remind us that despite the passage of time, the crisis, limitations, and political barriers, the party will never be eradicated. What the film ultimately works is the reason for that need.
The Next Door Neighbor
August 6, 2004 in theaters/1h 49min
Romance and Comedy
Directed by Luke Greenfield
Screenplay David Wagner and Stuart Blumberg
Cast Members: Paul Dano, James Remar, and Chris Marquette
Original title: The Girl Next Door
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: This film is not recommended for children under 18 years of age. Despite his youth, Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), a young man of eighteen, has very clear goals in life. His aspiration is to become a politician, and he knows that to achieve this, he has to work hard.
Everything in his life is directed with great rigidity and precision, with responsibility being his daily maximum. However, his firm routine is disrupted when a charming and beautiful young woman, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), moves to live next door.
The boy is captivated by her beauty and even feels something stronger before finding out about a major inconvenience: the girl is a very famous porn actress. Matthew will find himself in the dilemma of choosing between the neatness of his previous life or risk everything to get the girl.
Cruel Intentions
September 10, 1999 in theaters/1h 37min
Drama
Directed by Roger Kumble
Screenplay Roger Kumble and Choderlos de Laclos
Cast Members: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Reese Witherspoon
Original title: Cruel Intentions
Awards: 2000 Winner of Blockbuster Entertainment Awards and Csapnivalo Awards
Synopsis: Roger Kumble debuted writing and directing ‘Cruel Intentions’, an adaptation of the famous novel by Choderlos de Laclos, setting the story in the adolescent world of New York high society. The idea is as risky as it is curious. In addition, at the time it was an ideal commercial product as it had in its cast young actors who were then beginning to emerge as Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Philippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair, an attractive cast for young viewers.
The idea worked very well at the box office. As a movie, ‘Cruel Intentions’ stands as a mediocrity that is based on a script as faithful as it is disrespectful to the original, but that fails in the visual approach because it is too flat.
The Faculty
April 2, 1999 in theaters/1h 41min
Multicharacter Teenage Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Screenplay Kevin Williamson
Cast Members: Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, and Jordana Brewster
Awards: Nominee of the 1999 ALMA Awards, Winner 1999 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA and Nominee 1999 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
Synopsis: Harrington High is not what it used to be for the students and high school graduates. The walls are falling down, the textbooks are out of date and the teachers have lost what little vocation they had left. There are no computers and there is no money for any new material. In its corridors, there are all kinds of young people including students who want to be something in life, such as those who earn it by cheating.
Date Movie
March 17, 2006 in theaters/1h 23min
Comedy
Directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg
Screenplay Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Cast Members: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, and Sophie Monk
Awards: 2007 Winner of Razzie Awards and 2006 Winner of The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
Synopsis: Julia Jones (Alyson Hannigan, ‘American Pie’) is a naive and sweet teenager and high school graduate who still believes in Prince Charming. As this one has not just appeared, she spends her days being bitter and sad while working in her parents’ restaurant. Her luck changes when the peculiar British Grant Folloatuhija (Adam Campbell, ‘Eternally Engaged’) enters her life, with whom she falls madly in love.
Shortly after leaving, both know that the moment of the big wedding of the year must be imminent. What they do not know is that for their dream to come true, they will have to overcome many obstacles. On the one hand, her parents and on the other, Andy (Sophie Monk, ‘Click’), a childhood friend who wants to end her best friend’s wedding.
Hangover in Las Vegas
August 14, 2009 in theaters / 1h 30min
Comedy sequel
Directed by Todd Phillips
Screenplay Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
Cast Members: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis
Original title: The Hangover
Awards: Winner of Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture and MTV Movie Award
Synopsis: Stu Price (Ed Helms), Phil Wenneck (Bradley Cooper), and Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis) prepare to host Doug Billings’s (Justin Bartha) bachelor party. The trio of friends decides to take Doug to Las Vegas. After a night of excesses, the boys start the day without remembering anything they did the night before.
They only know that Stu has lost a tooth, that there is a tiger in the bathroom and a baby in the closet, and that Doug has just disappeared! To find out what happened to them, they try to piece together their memories and reconstruct the events.
American Pie 6 – Beta Fraternity
February 16, 2021 on Netflix / 1h 28min
Teen Sex Comedy
Directed by Andrew Waller
Screenplay Erik Lindsay and Adam Herz
Cast John White Christopher McDonald, and Steve Talley
Original title: American Pie Presents: Beta House
An American Pie Franchise
Award: Young Hollywood Award
Synopsis: This is another teen movie and teen comedy that American Pie presents for those who are experiencing college life. An American Pie Movie, this is the sixth installment of the ‘American Pie’ saga, where this time Erik Stifler and his fellow raiders begin a new life as university students.
Once there, Dwight, Erik’s cousin who is a teenage boy, invites them to a party at the famous Beta Fraternity. Eager to become new members of it, Erik and company will have to complete 50 tests of the most varied and crazy. This plot is similar to an American reunion and a great American Pie series to depict a wet hot American summer.
Scary Movie 4
June 23, 2006 in theaters/1h 23min
Comedy and Fantasy
Directed by David Zucker
Screenplay Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Cast Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and Leslie Nielsen
Awards: 2006 Nominee of Fangoria Chainsaw Awards and 2007 Winner of Razzie Awards; among others
Synopsis: David Zucker, together with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams, created in 1980 one of the most representative films of comedy of the time (not for its quality in itself), ‘Land as you can’, satirical work around the films of disasters that occurred in the United States during the 1970s, particularly air disasters.
From this play that, more or less went well, they expanded the spectrum with ‘Top Secret’ or ‘Grab it as you can’ (and successive installments), creating a formula that would be collected later, as in the ‘Scary Movie saga ‘, which was born after the resurgence of horror cinema with’ Scream ‘at the helm. Thus, up to five deliveries.
The fourth was directed by David Zucker. It follows in the wake of the previous three, taking the most recent horror films to their production and satirizing them, providing only two or three gags with a certain grace, but little else. The presence of Anna Faris helps make ‘Scary Movie 4’ more bearable, but it is still a movie with nothing to contribute.
Buddy, Where Is My Car?
2000 Film
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: Seann William Scott was the lead in two of the great teen movies of the time. Following his success as Stifler on American Pie came the wacky Dude, where’s my car? , in which he was paired with Ashton Kutcher, who swept in That ‘ 70s Wonderful. In this film, we have one of the protagonists of American Pie: Sean William Scott. The protagonists are him and Ashton Kutcher in the roles of Chester and Jesse respectively. The two friends spend a night partying, but the problem is that the next morning, neither remembers where they left Jesse’s car.
They will look for a way to remember what happened that night by redoing their steps. Along the way, they will find a multitude of characters (including two aliens in a situation similar to their own) that will help them solve the mystery of where they left their car. In this film similar to American Pie, we can see Sean William Scott in a role somewhat different from the eccentric Stiffler.
Supersalidos
2007 Film
Cast Members: Jonah Hill and Michael Cera
Awards: Mixed reviews, no awards
Synopsis: In Supersalidos, these two high school friends and friends since childhood, will suffer in their flesh the consequences of not being popular, even after graduation night. They did not know very well how they are invited to a party by one of the most popular girls of the institute. To complicate it even more, they will offer to bring alcoholic beverages with a fake ID provided by a friend.
From this situation, it starts, and it will make us realize that it is one of the most absurd and hilarious American Pie-like films that will make us laugh in this great comedy.
Serendipity
Premiere: October 5, 2001
Director: Peter Chelsom
Raunchy Comedy and Romance
Cast Members: John Cusack, Molly Shannon, Jeremy Piven, Eugene Levy, Kate Beckinsale, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan, Marcia Bennett, David Sparrow, and Lucy Gordon
Awards: 2002 Nominee of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films and 2002 Nominee of Young Artist Awards
Synopsis: Two strangers cross their lives one-afternoon shopping in New York. From the first moment, they feel a sudden attraction to each other, but both have a partner. Therefore, they have no choice but to separate. Before doing so, they agree that if there were a series of absurd coincidences, they would force themselves to give each other a chance.