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Plot Summary:
An Olympic Gold medalist is hired to coach the boys basketball team. But when Coach Randy Rawlings arrives, the school's sexist principal discovers he hired a woman. Blocked from firing her due to discrimination laws, he tries to make sure the team loses, so he can fire her for poor performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy, cult film
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Waterboys (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, uplifting, feel good, queer cinema
Similar in 80%
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Hole in One (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eric, a highly-gifted golfer but radically-undisciplined college undergrad, finds his world drastically altered after losing a golf bet to a pair of sadistic plastic surgeons. Eric's bad-boy attitude lifestyle comes to a screeching halt as he loses his money, his girlfriend, his dignity and his golf swing. Eric and his best friend Tyler decide to take on the doctors, in a final golf match of "Best-Ball" to get his life back and become the man he should have been all along.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 79%
Fast Break (1979)
Plot Summary:
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Shred (2008)
Plot Summary:
SHRED is a motion picture that tells the story of two washed up pro snowboarders from the 90s named Max (played by Dave England) and Eddie (played by Renee Renee) who attempt to cash in on the fantastic growth of the sport by starting their own snowboard camp. Hoping to recapture their former glory, they begin by sharing their wacky wisdom with a group of up and coming young snowboarders. The story takes them from the run down ski hill where they grew up to a major event at one of the biggest resorts in the west.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious
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Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008)
Plot Summary:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Similar in 75%
The Minis (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Paper Lion (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sentimental sequel film finds the Bears, somehow, the little league champions of California. As a result, the team is invited to play a between-games exhibition at the Houston Astrodome with the local champs, the Toros. Kelly Leak, the Bears' star player, decides to rejoin the team and go with them to Houston to make amends with his estranged father, Mike.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: family comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, road movie, unusual plot structure, sweet, suspense
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The Comebacks (2007)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, spoof, funny, melancholic, not serious, hilarious, slapstick, satirical, realistic
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The Sports Pages (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100" and "The Heidi Bowl".
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Plot Summary:
Another young boy with 'hoop dreams' finds an old pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers and can suddenly play ball like the greatest player in the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
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One on One (1977)
Plot Summary:
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic, grindhouse
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Boys Club (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sent to San Francisco to spend the summer with his aunt, teenager Mario Vandetti makes fast friends with a group of neighborhood kids and encouraged by a caring priest they soon form a basketball team, becoming contenders in a city tournament.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
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Green Flash (2008)
Plot Summary:
At the ripe old age of 30, Cameron Day has given up his chances at pro-basketball fame and settled into an aimless life. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman lands him smack in the middle of Southern California's pro beach volleyball scene. A naturally talented true athlete, he seems destined for sports stardom once again until his old demons start creeping in, threatening his chances at success.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational
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Sunset Park (1996)
Plot Summary:
A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, grim, sincere, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Eddie (1996)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, entertaining, feel good, retro, black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting
Similar in 81%
Rebound (2005)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, black comedy, hilarious, happy, realistic, not serious, humorous
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Wildcats (1986)
Plot Summary:
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, sexy, unusual plot structure
Similar in 76%
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, entertaining
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Necessary Roughness (1991)
Plot Summary:
When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, inspirational, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, cult classic, exciting, realistic
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Surf School (2006)
Plot Summary:
A rag-tag bunch of seniors, complete outsiders at their surf-crazed Laguna Beach High School, decide to crash the biggest team surf contest. In order to prevail, however, they must do one important thing...learn to surf! We're taking your classic Cinderella story into the world of surfing, complete with hi-jinx and the aesthetic beauty of surf mecca Costa Rica, our spectacular set location.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, teen sex comedy, offbeat, teen comedy
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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star Seann William Scott stars as the ambitious janitor who believes he has what it takes to coach the winning team.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, entertaining, satirical, not serious, realistic, inspirational, clever, enigmatic
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Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fourth 'Bring It On' movie is set at a cheerleader camp in Florida with a 'West Side Story' musical feel has the female captain of the West Side Sharks meeting and romancing a male member of the East Coast Jets amid their different team rivalries.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen, teen comedy
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Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Plot Summary:
Christina Milian stars as sassy cheer captain Lina Cruz, whose world is turned upside-down when her family moves from the urban streets of East Los Angeles to the sunny beach town of Malibu. At her new school, Lina clashes with Avery, the ultra-competitive all-star cheer captain, while also falling for Avery's super-cute brother, Evan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen, hispanic
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Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
Plot Summary:
The nerds are now in control of the university, as a result of Lewis Skolnick and the rest's actions in the two previous movies. A new generation of sportsmen arrive, however, determined on winning the school back. The principle, himself an ex-nerd fighter, helps them, and the nerds return to suppression. Harold Skolnick needs help from his uncle Lewis, the hero of the first two movies. Lewis, however, are not too proud of his nerd past, and won't reveal any of it, much less help his nephew. However, his wife makes him change his mind, and with help from his friends from the first two movies, they start the fight to win the school back, using classic nerd tricks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen comedy, eighties, fun
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Goodbye, Franklin High (1978)
Plot Summary:
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine his future, romance and family difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Big Green (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As they work overtime, the pair help kids build their self-esteem and also get involved in solving family squabbles.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, inspirational, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, epic
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Believe in Me (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, inspirational, spiritual