Movies like Bull Durham

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Bull Durham (1988)
 7.1
 59K
Bull Durham (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexy, inspirational, cult classic, funny, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, romantic comedy, scary ...
Plot: baseball, small town, coach, love triangle, relationships, mentor, age difference, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship, summer, female nudity, martial arts, village, motivation, team, choice, suburbs, endurance, independence day, conversation, pop culture, insult, fishing village ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century, 1930s
Place: north carolina, usa, california
Keyword: sport, mustang, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Bull Durham

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, ambition, profanity, couples, rivalry, hopes and friends mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like Bull Durham: For Love of the Game (1999), Tin Cup (1996), The Hammer (2007), Major League (1989), Mr 3000 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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For Love of the Game (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: baseball, loneliness, love story, unlikely friendships, storytelling, looking for love, athlete's life, love and romance, training, major league, hopes, motivation ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, detroit, new york, london, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 53K
Tin Cup (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexy, entertaining, light, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: golf, underdog, love, psychologist, competition, redemption, multiple storylines, rivalry, happy ending, love and romance, desert, man-woman relation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas, usa, north carolina, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 6K
The Hammer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underdog, olympics, mentor, ex athlete, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete's life, friends, couples, love affair, comeback, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 76K
Major League (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: baseball, underdog, rivalry, professional sports, ambition, major league, rise to the top, contests and competitions, follow your dream, against the odds, misfit, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.6
 15K
Mr 3000 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 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.
Style: humorous, inspirational, stylized, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, redemption, underdog, friendship, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, journalism, major league, racing ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place: wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, buddy comedy, talky ...
Plot: basketball, friendship, buddies, buddy, hip hop, black, con artists, ghetto, ambition, contests and competitions, blacks and whites, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Playing for Keeps (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Style: romantic, funny, sexy, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, eligible bachelor, relationships, mentor, parents, family drama, athlete, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
 12K
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find ...
Style: feel good, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: baseball, racing, abroad, sport team, culture clash, fish out of water, power relations, disorder, athlete and trainer, society, self discovery, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Play It to the Bone (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: road movie, inspirational, intense, melancholic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: boxing, friendship, boxer, unlikely friendships, contests and competitions, athlete's life, hopes, underdog, ambition, road trip, golf, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.3
 285K
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what ...
Style: feel good, motivational, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: football, career, love story, american football, single mother, workplace romance, friendship, business, starting over, love, introspection, boss and employee ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 47K
Roxanne (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, love story, small town, rivalry, physical appearance, wooing, dishonesty, hidden identity, happy ending, public nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 230K
The Ugly Truth (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sexy, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love story, relationships, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, love and romance, womanizer, workplace, looking for love, office romance, sex aid, enemies to lovers, flirting ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, sacramento california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 16K
Just Wright (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
Style: rom com, realistic, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: basketball, black, love triangle, looking for love, couples, hopes, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, african american, father daughter relationship, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, indiana, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Major League II (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: clever, funny, smart, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, family outing, teens
Plot: baseball, voodoo, underdog, coach, sport competition, racing, exodus, guts, satire, tournament, competition, radio ...
Time: 90s
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 70K
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, light, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: running, loser, love triangle, underdog, marathon, coach, bet, rivalry, runner, farce, racing, wedding ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 3K
Semi-Tough (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Style: humorous, satirical, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, satire, football player, love triangle, book, football, teenager, tough guy, football team, wedding, friendship, sport team ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: baseball, underdog, major league, racing, sport competition, contest, competition, tournament, sport team, rivalry, training, career ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, singleness, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, slutty attitude, affair, lonely, traffic jam ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 6.3
 66K
Wimbledon (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, inspirational, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: tennis, tennis player, underdog, ambition, love, competition, love story, couple relations, motivation, secret relationship, career, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, big ben london, new york, brighton ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.2
 37K
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, vengeance, writers, transformation, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, haunted by the past, teachers and students, rivalry, family relations, humiliation, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.4
 4K
Ceremony (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, wedding, couple relations, buddies, lifestyle, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, wooing, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
About Last Night (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: dating, black, love and romance, looking for love, friendship, battle of the sexes, couple relations, sexual relations, up and down relationship, thirtysomething life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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?
Style: entertaining, inspirational, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: american football, underdog, football team, sport team, college, football, happy ending, transformation, human spirit, rivalry, hopes, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Replacements (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, inspirational, intense, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: american football, underdog, football, cheerleading, transformation, adaptation, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.4
 4K
Whipped (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, ...
Style: sexy, humorous, funny, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, life philosophy, justice, vengeance, stereotypes, friends, love triangle, destiny, betrayal, femme fatale, twists and turns, womanizer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Having never fully recovered from a prom date that became a total disaster, a man finally gets a chance to reunite with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: true love, dream girl, dumb, stupidity, private detective, farce, dating, love, obstacle, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: rhode island, florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.8
 86K
Semi-Pro (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, inspirational, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: basketball, championship, sport team, coach, mentor, competition, basketball team, justice, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.9
 55K
Tammy (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
Style: humorous, road movie, funny, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, mentor, escapades, nothing goes right, unemployment, alcoholic, female leader, satire, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, louisville kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
What's Your Number? (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of ...
Style: feel good, sexy, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: love and romance, womanizer, true love, friendship, happy ending, couples, supportive friend, high school, wedding preparations and rituals, ex couple relations, looking for love, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 66K
BASEketball (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: parody, humorous, absurd, spoof, not serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: baseball, basketball, friends, farce, unlikely friendships, underdog, business, partner, rivalry, rise to the top, ambition, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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