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The Comebacks (2007)
12K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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"!
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, funny, melancholic, not serious, hilarious, slapstick, satirical, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
football, baseball, american football, dumb, satire, coach, college, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, social relations, against the odds, ambition, athlete's life, football team, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, campus, gymnast, breakup, student athlete, sport team, youth, sexual content, silly humor ...
Time:
future, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and feel good films with plots about ambition, rivalry, underdog, contests and competitions, sport team, coach and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Sport and Romance genres. Some movies like The Comebacks: Wildcats (1986), Fast Break (1979), Coach (1978), Necessary Roughness (1991), BASEketball (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, independent film ...
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:
100%
16K
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, light, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, high school, coach, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, teenager, transsexual, student athlete, culture clash, college, stoner, disorder, power relations, sport team, rivalry, fugitives ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
nevada, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
696
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, sexism, female athlete, power of love, love, school, partner, power relations, sport team, social relations, dedicated educator, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
100%
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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, light, inspirational, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
american football, underdog, football team, college, sport team, football, coach, college dean, teacher student relationship, professor, college football, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 80s
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, new jersey, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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, cult classic, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
baseball, basketball, cheerleading, friends, satire, dumb, farce, underdog, unlikely friendships, dialogue, business, partner ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big ...
Style:
not serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
wrestler, disorder, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, buddies, friendship, against the odds, partner, misfit, lifestyle, rivals ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
american football, football, writers, coach, talent show, sport team, power relations, athlete's life, ego clash, journalism, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
60s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
baseball, baseball coach, underdog, major league, baseball player, sport competition, racing, competition, contest, tournament, sport team, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
minnesota, south carolina, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, spoof, parody ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
underdog, dumb, against the odds, cheerleader, tournament, cheerleading, competition, gym, homoeroticism, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mike Bassett: England Manager is an hilarious British Comedy that stars Ricky Thomlinson. Featuring Cameos from Barry Venison, Gabby Yorath, Atomic Kitten and Pele.When the England manager has a heart attack, footballs' top brass turn to Mike ...
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot:
football, soccer, athlete's life, rise to the top, profanity, lifestyle, ambition, athlete and trainer, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
To climb the corporate ladder to success, a guy agrees to coach the company's all girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, uplifting, offbeat ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, soccer, football, teenager, childhood, american football, milf, farce, youth, gender bending, stepfather stepson relationship, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, hot dog, major league, rivalry, professional sports, baseball coach, ambition, rise to the top, follow your dream, contests and competitions, against the odds ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
miami, ohio, florida, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
underdog, teacher, contests and competitions, martial arts, against the odds, dedicated educator, hopes, teachers and students, mixed martial arts, boxing, brutality, lifestyle change ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, north america, las vegas, boston
Similarity:
100%
96K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bowling, road trip, buddies, on the road, older woman younger man, dark humor, dumb, culture clash, mentor, sexy woman, fish out of water, success ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, nevada, usa, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With marriage, graduation, and the real world looming on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb Fuller reassembles the ol' team of misfits for one last epic run in Intramural football.
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
football, american football, tournament, prank, college, college campus, college student, competitor, rivalry, sport team, escapades, satire ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
teen, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, hottie, dancing, teenage girl, college, nubile girl, forbidden love, dance, rivalry, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
99K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Rod Kimball, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most ...
Style:
funny, feel good, witty, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, friendship, misfit, ambition, fund raising, obsessive quest, young man, team, goofy hero, contests and competitions, determination, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s, 21st century
Place:
washington state, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Style:
humorous, sexy, not serious, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
college, american football, athlete's life, youth, friends, college life, cheerleading, sexual activity, university, teenage life, cheerleader, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, youth, mentor, adult humor, ambition, contests and competitions, bullying, coming of age, vengeance, group of friends, nfl, pizza ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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:
sexy, funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
tennis, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, youth, misfit, lifestyle, school, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in ...
Style:
humorous, spoof, parody, stylized, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ping pong, rivalry, redemption, olympics, fbi, hopes, dumb, satire, prodigy, ambition, athlete and trainer, talent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
german democratic republic, central america, seoul, latin america, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track ...
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
ice hockey, hockey, mentor, adaptation, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, couple relations, sport team, breakup, indians, hockey player ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
india, canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
Story:
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
Style:
mockumentary, humorous, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night
Plot:
cycling, bicycle, cyclist, male pubic hair, doping, male objectification, stoner, athlete's life, dishonesty, obsession, ambition, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
191K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
bullying, college, social outcast, football, underdog, american football, cheerleader, sarcasm, foul language, dumb, water, coach ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa, new jersey
Similarity:
36%
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:
teen sex comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, bare chested male, cheerleader, college, high school, coming of age, underdog, american football player, revenge, teenager, foot fetish ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
texas, north america, alabama, los angeles, california
Similarity:
33%
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, inspirational, humorous, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
american football, underdog, cheerleading, football, hopes, transformation, adaptation, contests and competitions, rivalry, against the odds, athlete and trainer, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An unemployed slacker (Lange) inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, stripper, bet, buddies, contests and competitions, partner, against the odds, small town, underdog, softball, dumb, friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune strikes his family, C-dub must overcome living at home, working ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, funny
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ping pong, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, family relations, suburbs, table tennis, children, game, youth, anti hero, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
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, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
baseball, voodoo, baseball coach, underdog, coach, baseball player, contest, radio, tournament, competition, sport competition, satire ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
30%
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