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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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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Plot Summary:
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Semi-Pro (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (NBA) plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. The Tropics are the worst team in the league and if they want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning. The only problem is the fact that Jackie Moon is not really the coach and star basketball player he thinks he is. To keep his team from oblivion and leave his mark in the city, Jackie Moon must inspire his team to win fourth place in the playoffs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 85000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, inspirational, entertaining, absurd, stylized, humorous, hilarious, feel good, suspense, philosophical
Similar in 76%
Coach (1978)
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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Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
Plot Summary:
At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, road movie, unusual plot structure, entertaining, melancholic, splatter, idiotic
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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
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The Air Up There (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, light, inspirational, romantic
Similar in 81%
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, family comedy, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic
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The Yankles (2009)
Plot Summary:
About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, independent film
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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
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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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Save Your Legs! (2012)
Plot Summary:
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Winning Season (2009)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, inspirational, light, feel good, captivating, funny, teen, indie film, touching
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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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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
Similar in 78%
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 77%
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
Similar in 75%
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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The Hot Flashes (2013)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Full-Court Miracle (2003)
Plot Summary:
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie. It premiered on November 23, 2003. Inspired by the true story of University of Virginia basketball star Lamont Carr, the film centers on a group of young Jewish basketball players who search for a coach to help them out of a slump. The main character Alex Schlotsky is inspired by the true story of Alex Barbag and Chad Korpeck.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Bring It on Again (2004)
Plot Summary:
When new students can't get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, romantic, funny, light, sexy
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A Season on the Brink (2002)
Plot Summary:
"A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers" is based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein. The movie chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to the team and its practices, meetings, and huddles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating