Movies like Waterboys

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Waterboys (2001)
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Waterboys (2001)
Original name: ウォーターボーイズ
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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".
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, uplifting, feel good, queer cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: swimming, high school, against the odds, athlete's life, human spirit, follow your dream, teenage life, ambition, lifestyle, youth, athlete and trainer, rivalry, contests and competitions, underdog, gay, beach, high school life, teenager, synchronized swimming, school, mathematics, schoolgirl, friends, misfit, teachers and students ...
Time: contemporary
Keyword: sport, americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, lifestyle, hopes and friends mostly in Comedy, Sport and Family genres. Some movies like Waterboys: Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), Ping Pong (2002), Coach (1978), The Big Green (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, college, dance, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A transfer student at a rough high school tries joining the cheer-leading squad and finds that she not only has to face off against the head cheerleader, but also against her former school in preparation for a cheer-off competition.
Style: teen, light, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, cheerleader, cheerleading, dancing, high school life, hip hop, school, friendship, dance, teenage girl, sport team, teenager ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 3K
Ping Pong (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, ambition, rivalry, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, underdog, opponent ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.7
 646
Coach (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: grindhouse, sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, love, school, female athlete, sexism, partner, social relations, sport team, power relations, dedicated educator, prodigy, society ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.1
 14K
Rebound (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An acclaimed college hoops coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Style: entertaining, feel good, touching, funny, happy ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: basketball, college, sport team, youth, underdog, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, against the odds, prodigy, ambition, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.5
 5K
Swing Girls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, teen, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, high school, hardcase students, japanese schoolgirl, summer school, friendship, against the odds, ambition, mischievous children, music band, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 8K
Jump In! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, teen
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, follow your dream, against the odds, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, teenager, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Bring It on Again (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When new students can't get onto their college cheerleading team, they form their own squad and prepare for a cheer off.
Style: teen, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cheerleading, cheerleader, competition, dancing, high school, teenager, sport team, college, hip hop, dance, teenage life, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: tennis, male nudity, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, misfit, youth, lifestyle, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, teenage love, interracial couple, high school, youth, lifestyle, high school hunk, sport team, love and romance, teenage life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california, florida, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.9
 493
Shred (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, skiing, rivalry, friends, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, hopes, athlete's life, human spirit ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 2.2
 5K
Surf School (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, high school, ambition, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, youth, rivalry, buddies, contests and competitions, love affair ...
Time: 2000s
Place: costa rica, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: independent film, teen sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: american football, football, brat pack, cheerleader, college, high school, underdog, coming of age, teenager, revenge, student athlete, love ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: texas, alabama, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Breakdance Kid (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: hip hop, teenage love, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, humorous, black comedy, semi serious
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, true love, friendship, hopes, rivalry, athlete's life, follow your dream, underdog, human spirit, athlete and trainer, buddies, ambition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gym teacher, youth, ambition, sports injury, lifestyle, redemption, athlete's life, contests and competitions, hopes, rivalry, school, family life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.6
 229
Boys Club (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, ambition, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, against the odds, rivalry, athlete's life, family life, athlete and trainer, lifestyle ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Winning Season (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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
Style: humorous, sincere, inspirational, light, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: basketball, coach, high school, contests and competitions, ex athlete, youth, misfit, sport team, teenage life, ambition, hopes, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
 6.1
 861
Fast Break (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, student athlete, transsexual, teenager, culture clash, college, stoner, sport team, disorder, power relations, youth, ambition ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: nevada, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Save Your Legs! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, rivalry, sport team, society, buddies, contests and competitions, hopes, culture clash, fish out of water, underdog, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 1K
Queen Sized (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style: feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high school, rivalry, society, against the odds, best friend, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, underdog, prom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 6.3
 480
Bleacher Bums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: baseball, friends, gambling, lifestyle, against the odds, follow your dream, rivalry, buddies, athlete's life, couple relations, ambition, hopes ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.6
 8K
The Minis (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Dwarfs playing basketball... with Dennis Rodman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot: basketball, friends, sport team, athlete and trainer, hopes, follow your dream, ambition, rivalry, hotshot hero, contests and competitions, lifestyle, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 669
Tour de Force (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Family man François Nouel (Clovis Cornillac) is the number one fan of the Tour de France – an obsession that costs him his wife and his job. At a loose end, François meets a former sports manager, Rémi (Bouli Lanners) who encourages him to take ...
Style: humorous, realistic, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot: cycling, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, human spirit, escapades, hopes, bicycle, tour de france, lifestyle, underdog, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 360
Safe at Home! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Style: uplifting, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: baseball, youth, new york yankees, coach, sport team, partner, parents and children, against the odds, school, teenage life, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 1K
Paper Lion (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: american football, writers, football, sport team, power relations, underdog, hopes, human spirit, ego clash, ambition, lifestyle, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
19%
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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.
Style: road movie, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: baseball, blaxploitation, urban, black, african, power relations, sport team, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, follow your dream ...
Time: 1930s, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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