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Plot Summary:
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his unlikely quest for Olympic gold.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious, realistic, witty, funny, romantic, sentimental
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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 78%
On Edge (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wendy, Veda, and J.C. are part of Southern California's thriving figure skating community - the bottom part. Luckily this is America, the land of opportunity, where a dream in your heart and personal gain in your sights can propel almost anyone to stardom. With this in mind Wendy, Veda, and J.C. are fighting their way to Olympic glory. But first they have to win the Regional Competition - and there can only be ONE winner. Will it be Veda? The beautiful ice princess who responds to her over-bearing mother by routinely puking up her lunch. Or Wendy? The plus-size skater with the super-plus libido. And what about J.C.? The orphaned trailer park girl who'd gladly trade you a pack of smokes for a sequined thong. Under the watchful gaze of Zamboni Phil, the girls train, toil and plot their way to success. Let the Games begin!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, mockumentary
Similar in 76%
Playing for Keeps (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, romantic comedy
Similar in 77%
The Main Event (1979)
Plot Summary:
Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, parody, light, inspirational, romantic
Similar in 89%
Backwards (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: romantic, realistic, touching, captivating, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, serious, independent film
Similar in 78%
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%
Coach (2010)
Plot Summary:
A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic, feel good, realistic, independent film, romantic drama
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 86%
Bull Durham (1988)
Plot Summary:
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, inspirational, cult classic, funny, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, romantic comedy, scary
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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 80%
The Answer Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote a book about spirituality that became wildly popular. These days, he's a curmudgeonly recluse who only enjoys the company of his chiropractor, Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). As Elizabeth's warmth starts to melt Arlen's cold heart, he comes to realize what love really means.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, romantic, sweet, sex comedy, existential
Similar in 86%
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Plot Summary:
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy, melancholic, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 85%
Mr 3000 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn't quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he's back to try and reach that goal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, stylized, touching, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, funny, light
Similar in 88%
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 76%
Side Out (1990)
Plot Summary:
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, inspirational, funny, captivating, realistic, erotic, exciting, romantic
Similar in 85%
Forget Paris (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, intense, touching, realistic, clever, witty, non fiction
Similar in 89%
Friends (With Benefits) (2009)
Plot Summary:
Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationships...but lots of time for the desire. One fateful day, a brave Owen proposes the "perfect" solution: Friends (read: no messy relationship stuff)...with benefits (read: insanely messy sex stuff). "Perfect," that is...if the two hadn't always been secretly in love with one another So what DOES happen when two close friends decide to secretly blur the lines dividing friendship and relationship...and the rest of their tight knit group of friends finds out? The answer: complications arise. A LOT of complications. In fact, to quote their therapist, "It's brought down empires; imagine what it can do to a group of friends".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, sexual, sex comedy, hot
Similar in 89%
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Plot Summary:
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, independent film, mumblecore, light, heartbreaking, melancholic, romantic, emotional, semi serious
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 87%
To the Mat (2011)
Plot Summary:
To the Mat tells the story of a laid-back ex-wrestler (Ricky Schroder) who's trying to keep his family's down-and-out Southern wrestling school above water. When his mother hires an uptight Wall Street consultant from New York (Laura Bell Bundy) to help get the books in order, these two opposites must find a way to get along and save the family business.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 89%
Jump In! (2007)
Plot Summary:
Story revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels, who trains to follow in his father's footsteps by winning the Golden Glove. When his friend, Mary, however, asks him to substitute for a team member in a Double Dutch tournament, the young man discovers a hidden passion for jump roping.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, teen
Similar in 83%
Summer Catch (2001)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Local boy Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.), now a pitcher for Boston College, meets Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel), the daughter of a wealthy couple who summer on the Cape. Ryan and Tenley fall in love, much to the chagrin of their families, while Ryan clings to one last hope of being discovered and signed to a pro baseball contract.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sensual, happy, light
Similar in 83%
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two ice skaters develop a love-hate relationship while dreaming of Olympic glory.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, teen, romantic, saga, romantic comedy
Similar in 80%
How Do You Know (2010)
Plot Summary:
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, witty, romantic comedy, sweet, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, cute
Similar in 80%
Black Coffee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, erotic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 89%
Cousins (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, romantic, sentimental, light, sweet, entertaining, feel good, touching, offbeat
Similar in 77%
Tin Cup (1996)
Plot Summary:
A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, entertaining, romantic, inspirational, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy, feel good, humorous
Similar in 89%
Fever Pitch (2005)
Plot Summary:
When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers Ben's obsession with the Boston Red Sox. She thinks it is perfect until everything goes downhill for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, sexy, light, entertaining, funny, sweet, feel good, humorous, cute
Similar in 76%
Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's got the goods to keep her slickster boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) from straying - until he discovers a greener pasture, Shanté's archrival (Gabrielle Union).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy, feel good, clever, talky, black comedy, hood
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Fever Pitch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, witty, talky