Movies like Semi-Tough

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Semi-Tough (1977)
 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, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, weeping, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, satire, football player, love triangle, book, football, teenager, tough guy, football team, wedding, friendship, sport team, businessman, jealousy, church, self confidence, father daughter relationship, swimming pool, hotel room, canceled wedding, eccentricity, friends, love and romance, profanity, fall in love ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: miami, texas
Keyword: football movie, sport, crawling, partners, gangsters

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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, football, rivalry, love and romance, sport team, friends and american football mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like Semi-Tough: Starting Over (1979), Johnny Be Good (1988), Varsity Blues (1999), Wildcats (1986), Paper Lion (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Starting Over (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: starting over, support group, dating, hopes, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, infidelity, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: boston, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Division III: Football's Finest (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, football, fight, sport team, power relations, contests and competitions, social relations, athlete and trainer, against the odds, championship, sportscaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
80%
 6.5
 49K
Varsity Blues (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup ...
Style: teen sex comedy, entertaining, inspirational, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: football, american football, coming of age, small town, cheerleader, teenager, high school, stripper, mentor, stereotypes, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 6.0
 15K
Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 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 ⇓
68%
 6.2
 970
Never Again (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar.
Style: witty, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, introspection, starting over, lifestyle, looking for love, hopes, couple relations, wooing, sexual relations, couples, male female relationship, lgbt ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.9
 4K
The Best Man (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, wedding, fall in love, couples, cons and scams, party, writers, clumsy, group of friends, high school friends, high school friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Movie in collections
 5.9
 1K
FC Venus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: rivalry, battle of the sexes, friendship between men, contests and competitions, couple relations, buddies, sport team, strong female character, soccer coach, football, monkey, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Her Best Move (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 15 year-old soccer prodigy, Sara Davis, has a chance to join the U.S. National Team, but she must juggle high school, romance, sports, and parental pressure while deciding her own priorities.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, soccer, rivalry, against the odds, teenage love, friends, follow your dream, youth, friendship, parents and children, high school life, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 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 ⇓
62%
 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 ⇓
61%
The Longest Yard (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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' ...
Style: inspirational, intense, suspense, talky, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, american football, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, prison life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, america, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.9
 4K
Stroker Ace (1983)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress ...
Style: realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, fast
Plot: racing, car chase, auto racing, blonde, virgin, car, rivalry, motor racing, race, driver, hillbilly, motor sport ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two New York hustlers (Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez) go to Palm Beach, Fla., and enroll in a charm school to please an heiress.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, inheritance, high society, school, illuminati, orphanage, merchant, partner, nudity, profanity, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With Blue Mountain State football star Thad Castle recently signing a multi-million dollar NFL contract, his teammates and college life seem like a distant memory. However, when a new school dean threatens to clean up the BMS image by auctioning off ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, feel good, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: american football, college, party, male pubic hair, sport team, youth, athlete's life, disorder, ambition, abuse, university, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 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 ...
Style: sexy, cult classic, inspirational, funny, realistic ...
Plot: baseball, small town, coach, love triangle, mentor, relationships, age difference, manic pixie dream girl, sexual content, nudity, older woman younger man relationship, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.7
 12K
Fever Pitch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: soccer, football, teacher, sport team, contests and competitions, couple relations, relationship problems, fall in love, opposites attract, ambition, couples, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1997, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 33K
Leatherheads (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style: witty, feel good, inspirational, intense, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: american football, football, underdog, sport team, justice, redemption, life philosophy, vengeance, rivalry, cheerleader, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: chicago, minnesota, usa, france, milwaukee wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Buying the Cow (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.
Style: feel good, sexy, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: engagement, fear of commitment, dating, friends, love, commitment, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, dog sex, party, sex crime, wedding ...
Place: new york, usa, caribbean, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.5
 2K
FC Venus (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot: football, soccer, sport team, ambition, rivalry, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, playing football, woman, husband wife relationship, football team ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, sexy, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, american football, high school, drag racing, teen angst, prank, small town, teenage girl, sexy teenager, exploitation, vandalism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.2
 1K
Cloud 9 (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Has-been sports promoter Billy Cole gets a second shot at fame and fortune when he puts together a women's volleyball team, comprised of exotic dancers...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: beach volleyball, beach, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, against the odds, self discovery, partner, cons and scams, womanizer, seduction, volleyball ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Best of Times (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Style: laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: american football, football, high school sports, football team, high school football, sport team, small town, partner, power relations, social relations, friends, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
57%
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see ...
Style: humorous, witty, cynical, talky, melancholic ...
Plot: american football, lawyer, insurance fraud, surveillance, insurance, lawsuit, hospital, friendship, cons and scams, odd couple, workplace, crooked lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheerleader, cheerleading, erotica, sexploitation, american football, female nudity, voyeur, sex, college, teenager, nudity, extreme ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Longest Yard (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in ...
Style: entertaining, funny, inspirational, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: prison, american football, underdog, prison life, prison guard, football, redemption, adaptation, betrayal, warden, ex athlete, jail ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.6
 17K
Wedding Daze (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, couple relations, couples, proposal, fall in love, marriage proposal, eccentric family, marriage, jail, love and romance, hopes, prison escape ...
Time: year 2006
Place: atlantic city, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.0
 975
Cupid's Balls (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Swedish Lucas moves from Stockholm to a small Norwegian town, and immediately falls in love with Susanne, the goal keeper of the local girls' soccer team. He becomes axquanted with the overweight, sex-fixated son of the coach. With him as a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: football, teenage love, sport team, contests and competitions, fall in love, rivalry, youth, buddies, ambition, social relations, village, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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