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Plot Summary:
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, inspirational, cult classic, exciting, feel good, cynical, hilarious, clever, realistic
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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 78%
Beer League (2006)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed slacker (Lange) inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, funny, captivating, teen, independent film
Similar in 80%
Goon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, witty, sweet, not serious, light, realistic, thought provoking
Similar in 85%
Pucked (2006)
Plot Summary:
Frank Hopper is a former lawyer, long-term loser and constant dreamer - and frankly, probably just not all that bright. When he receives a credit card in the mail, he believes he's hit the jackpot. It's not long before he's working his way toward financing his dream - an all-woman hockey team. He's also put himself in debt to the tune of more than $300,000. Naturally, he winds up in court when his plan backfires.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, independent film
Similar in 80%
Major League II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Those Cleveland Indians are at it again! After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! First, though, they have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team. Also, has Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn lost his edge? Are Jake's knees strong enough to make it as a catcher another year? These and other questions are answered as the Indians recapture the magic and win the championship "their way".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, funny, smart, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, inspirational, romantic
Similar in 81%
Breakaway (2011)
Plot Summary:
A hockey enthusiast since 12 years of age, Toronto-based Rajvinder Singh, even went to the extent of trimming his hair, discarding his Pagri/turban, did not complete his education, incurred the wrath of his father, Darvesh, who wanted him to be involved in the family business as well as confirm and respect Sikh religion principles and values. Hoping to play professional hockey, Rajvinder, along with other fellow Sikh players, instead finds himself treated as the object of ridicule, referred to as a 'joker', by mainstream Caucasian players. Even his friends tease him and ask him to take up 'Guli Danda' and Kabaddi', while his father makes him work for Uncle Sammy as a truck driver. He is attracted to stunning law student Melissa Winters while her brother, Dan, offers to coach Rajvinder and his team. Unable to get themselves included in any team, they form their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, India, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic
Similar in 90%
The Boys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Every Monday night The Boys put on skates and leave their troubled lives behind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, sexy, clever, intellectual, enigmatic, feel good, unusual plot structure
Similar in 82%
Blades of Glory (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athletes skirt their way back onto the ice via a loophole that allows them to compete together as a pairs team.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, inspirational, entertaining, light, not serious, realistic, parody
Similar in 86%
Kingpin (1996)
Plot Summary:
After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, melancholic, talky, not serious, cult classic, hilarious, dark comedy
Similar in 76%
Youngblood (1986)
Plot Summary:
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, retro, spiritual, epic, sex comedy, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, stylized
Similar in 85%
The Best of Times (1986)
Plot Summary:
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 78%
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)
Plot Summary:
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, teen comedy
Similar in 86%
Major League (1989)
Plot Summary:
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate -- but only a losing season will make that possible, which should be easy given the misfits she's hired. Rachel is sure her dream will come true, but she underestimates their will to succeed!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, cult classic, feel good, parody, satirical, slapstick comedy
Similar in 88%
BASEketball (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Theirs is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of a rival team wants to institute.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, absurd, spoof, feel good, not serious, slapstick, cult classic, hilarious, funny
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 75%
Bad News Bears (2005)
Plot Summary:
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, clever, talky, hilarious, exciting
Similar in 81%
The Great White Hype (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, entertaining, stylized, light, inspirational, talky, semi serious, parody, black comedy
Similar in 85%
Play It to the Bone (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Grace, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: road movie, inspirational, suspense, entertaining, melancholic, intense, semi serious, exciting, humorous, talky
Similar in 83%
The Replacements (2000)
Plot Summary:
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic, sincere, funny, entertaining, hilarious, motivational
Similar in 81%
Grudge Match (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, intense, humorous, realistic, parody, cult classic, semi serious, buddy comedy, funny
Similar in 87%
Bleacher Bums (2001)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a 1979 stage play written by Chicago's Organic Theater Company, BLEACHER BUMS details the exploits of a group of baseball fans as they sit in the bleachers of Lakeview Park watching a game between the hometown Bruins take on the St. Louis Eagles. Marvin (Brad Garrett) and Decker (Peter Riegert) gamble. So does Zig (Wayne Knight), even though his wife constantly nags him about the money he loses. Meanwhile, blind Greg (Matt Craven) enjoys the game through pretty Melody (Sarain Boylan), who describes it to him. A seasoned ensemble case of TV and film veterans create winning chemistry in this slice-of-life comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, offbeat, talky
Similar in 79%
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a dodgeball guru and Goodman's attorney, La Fleur and his rag-tag team of underdogs launch a knock-down, drag-out battle in which the winner takes all.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining, light, absurd, spoof, realistic, not serious
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 83%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: inspirational, talky, intense, humorous, exciting, touching, feel good, clever, realistic, funny
Similar in 77%
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, atmospheric, talky, witty, intense, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Chicks With Sticks (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men's squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Similar in 76%
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, slick promoters and millionaire athletes come together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, entertaining, humorous, realistic, inspirational, funny, sex comedy, cult classic, witty
Similar in 76%
The Longest Yard (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: inspirational, intense, suspense, witty, talky, rough, humorous, captivating, semi serious, funny
Similar in 90%
The Cutting Edge (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sweet, feel good, light, romantic comedy, teen, humorous, cute, sentimental, touching, romantic
Similar in 81%
Breaking Away (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, inspirational, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, captivating, teen, entertaining