Movies like The Hotshots

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The Hotshots (1968)
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The Hotshots (1968)
Original name: Les cracks
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
Style: parody
Plot: bicycle, cycling, race, train, inventor, steam train, cyclist, invention, pig, border crossing, sport competition, deputy sheriff, sabotage, bicycle race, spa, drug, eiffel tower paris, italian stereotype, train tunnel, mountain road, drugs, riding a bicycle
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: vichy, paris france
Keyword: dope

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Most similar movies to The Hotshots

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, parody and captivating films with plots about ambition, cycling, satire, rivalry, contests and competitions, coach and teenager mostly in Comedy, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like The Hotshots: Tour de Force (2013), Tour de Pharmacy (2017), Stadium Nuts (1972), Oh My Goodness! (2022), Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
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 nudity, male objectification, doping, male pubic hair, stoner, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, obsession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.1
 904
Stadium Nuts (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through ...
Plot: camping, race, village, cycling, olympic athlete, olympics, bicycle, father daughter relationship, athlete, romantic rivalry, wedding dress, runner ...
Place: paris france, south of france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Oh My Goodness! (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: cycling, nun, women, monastery, female protagonist, bicycle, ambition, money problems, satire, cyclist, needing money, money
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, fast paced
Plot: cycling, farm, against the odds, lifestyle, ambition, hopes, contests and competitions, underdog, bicycle, bike, victory, farm hand ...
Time: 70s
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
My Wife's Husband (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Plot: restaurant, food, cookery, husband wife relationship, bigamy, reporter, rain, photograph, lawyer, fishing, train, mayor ...
Time: 1950s
Place: normandy, marseille, south of france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.2
 439
The Big Wash (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
Style: slapstick comedy, detective
Plot: anarchist, vandal, english class, criminal on the run, kidnapped man, school janitor, wanted, squad, political persecution, male to female cross dressing, chambermaid, backfire ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, racing, farce, sport competition, stupidity, auto racing, betrayal, satire, competition, comeback, championship, teamwork ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 3.9
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Delivery Boys (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the "Delivery Boys". They form a dance team and enter a local break dance contest, ...
Style: juvenile, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: breakdance, dance, exploitation, hip hop, teenager, dancing, man dressed as a woman, may december romance, nudity, meditation, art exhibition, pizza delivery boy ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 1.4
 752
Ricky 1 (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this parody of the Rocky films, Ricky Wanero is a male gigolo and stripper who sets out to beat "The Champ" in the boxing ring.
Style: spoof, parody, independent film
Plot: boxing, boxer, oral sex, punched in the face, godfather
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.7
 25K
Breaking Away (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style: touching, realistic, inspirational, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, working class, cycling, underdog, bicycle, friendship, small town, teenage life, bicycle race, father son relationship, childhood, teenage boy ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work.
Plot: lack of money, hunger, nightmare, charity, burglary, religion, church, police officer, catholic church, poverty, bourgeoisie, stealing money ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 11K
Lady Ballers (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A once-great basketball coach is on a journey back to victory by reuniting his former high school championship basketball team, but this time, he’s challenging them to play like girls.
Style: parody
Plot: satire, basketball, transgender, basketball coach, woman, cross dressing, transphobia, sexist, basketball team, male to female cross dressing, women in sport, press conference ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Monnaie de singe (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Style: detective
Plot: con men, prison escape, fiancee, typist, police officer, security guard, male to female cross dressing, cabriolet, secretly observing, arrested, talking parrot, police investigator ...
Place: madrid, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
41%
The Flying Scotsman (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine parts.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyclist, bicycle, cycling, human spirit, scotsman, underdog, race, lifestyle, ambition, friendship, rivalry, hopes ...
Time: year 2006
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.1
 20K
7 Days in Hell (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story: A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
Style: parody, funny, stylized, light, not serious ...
Plot: tennis, adaptation, redemption, storytelling, irreverent, technology, athlete's life, contests and competitions, rivalry, satire, tennis player, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
 126K
Caddyshack (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style: funny, slapstick, light, intense, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, adult
Plot: golf, country club, female nudity, public nudity, nudity, teenage girl, nude girl, rivalry, boobs, lust, swimming pool, peeping tom ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 4.3
 12K
The Comebacks (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 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 ...
Style: parody, humorous, spoof, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, american football, football, coach, rivalry, college, social relations, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, against the odds, athlete's life, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.1
 114
Soccer Killer (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Song Dynasty, a group of patriots play soccer against the traitor with a team of foreign enemies, royal pro-nobles, bandits, martial arts masters and embrace the country hatred to compete for the first time in the history of China ...
Style: captivating, exciting, funny, entertaining, humorous
Plot: soccer, martial arts, sporting event, sport competition, playing football, football, soccer match, football player, football team, sport team, wuxia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Confidence Reigns (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - ...
Plot: drug, couples, jewelry, hospital, prostitute, jealousy, gambling, police, train, bare breasts, hotel, infidelity ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.6
 259
Bajkeri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Insufficient brothers Jakub and David, along with friend Sasa, spend most of their time in the social networking world. Relationships for them are chat with virtual girls they have never seen, living a fake fashion show in which they pretend ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative, entertaining, light ...
Plot: cyclist, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, conflict between friends, sexual humor, socially awkward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.6
 677
Tanguy Is Back (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 16 years later, Tanguy, now 44, returns to his parents' house with his daughter Zhu under his arm because Meï Lin left him. Disappointed to see their "little one" in this state, Paul and Edith do everything to give him a taste for ...
Style: light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: father son relationship, parents and children, adaptation, mother son relationship, family relations, family life, love, children, life philosophy, rescue, lifestyle, photography ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
 6.6
 420
Like a Virgin (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Chubby high school student and Madonna-devotee Oh Dong-ku is a trans woman living with her abusive, alcoholic father. Dong-ku works part-time to save money for the sex reassignment surgery she craves. Despite being told that she has the perfect ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: gay, sport competition, coach, lgbt, transsexual, contests and competitions, gender bending, obesity, obese, gender issues, fight, trance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 158
Tamahine (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands. Director Philip Leacock's 1963 comedy stars Nancy Kwan, Dennis ...
Style: independent film
Plot: girl, cousins in love, female nudity, school, student, director, orphan, anthropologist, boarding school, cannibalism, island, eroticism ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: paris france, england, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Red Wood Pigeon (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Michele is the leader of the Italian communist party and a professional water polo player. On this day he's just lost his memory following a (very stupid) car accident. So he has to discover the intricacies of his life again, and he does so ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Plot: memory loss, swimming, surrealism, circus, television, satire, politics, identity crisis, mother son relationship, character study, political satire, metaphor ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Crazy Professor (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Philippines
Story: A Filipino comedy film directed Ben Feleo.
Style: spoof
Plot: student athlete, high school, experiment, basketball team, high school basketball, invention, basketball, coach, teacher student relationship, arm wrestling, basketball player, dance ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 7K
Traffic (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention ...
Style: road movie, stylized, parody, manga, cult classic ...
Plot: on the road, border, art, satire, car, technology, truck, european, trucker, racing, comedian, traffic jam ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, france, paris france, europe, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.1
 177K
The Waterboy (1998)
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: teens, manly, girls' night
Plot: football, bullying, college, social outcast, underdog, american football, farce, rags to riches, mentor, ridicule, dumb, foul language ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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